Middle School UIL Academic Competition Presentation

UIL Academic Competition

DISTRICT MEET: SATURDAY, MAY 2, 2026 @SHEPTON HS

eVENTS

1. Art

7. Mathematics

8. Number Sense

2. Calculator Applications

3. Chess Puzzle

9. Ready Writing

10. Science

4. Editorial Writing

5. Listening

6. Maps, Graphs, & Charts

art

• Recognize and identify 30 paintings and creators
• Two 30 min blocks:
• Part A requires contestants to identify the artist’s name, as it appears on the official list, and the title of 15 paintings selected randomly from the official list of 30 paintings.
• Part B consists of 30 questions about art elements and art history characteristic of the 30 art selections.
• 4th-6th; 7th-8th (5 Contestants per division)

Calculator applications

• 80 problems including calculations involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, roots and powers.
• Includes straightforward calculation problems and simple geometric and stated problems.
• 6th-8th (3 Contestants Total)

Chess puzzle

• Objective test containing approximately 20 chess puzzles, plus a tiebreaker section.
• Answerinclude fill-in-the-blank, multiple choice and/or true/false.
• 30 mins & additional 5 mins for tiebreaker

• 6th-8th (3 Contestants Total)

editorial writing

• Provided a fact sheet from which to develop and write an editorial.
• 45 mins to write

• 6th-8th (3 Contestants Total)

listening

• Listen to 7-10 min script, take notes as needed, and use their notes to answer 25 objective questions.
• 10 mins to answer

• 5th-6th; 7th-8th (3 Contestants per division)

Maps, Graphs, & Charts

• 75 objective questions
• Will neeed atlas for some questions
• 45 mins to answer

• 5th-6th; 7th-8th (3 Contestants per division)

mathematics

• Problems covering: numeration systems, arithmetic operations involving whole numbers, integers, fractions, decimals, exponents, order of operations, probability, statistics, number theory, simple interest, measurements and conversions, geometry and algebra.
• 50 multiple-choice problems.
• 30 mins to answer

• 6th-8th (3 Contestants Total)

number sense

• Fill-in-the-blank test completed without doing calculations on paper or on a calculator.
• No erasures, mark-overs and mark-outs
• 10 mins to answer

• 4th-6th; 7th-8th (3 Contestants per division)

Ready writing

• Two prompts to choose from
• Various writing strategies including:
• description to inform – describe the happening or person/object from imagination or memory;
• narration – write a story;
• persuasion – describe and argue just one side of an issue
• No minimum or maximum number of words
• 2 hours
• Not on same day as meet

• 5th-6th; 7th-8th (3 Contestants per division)

science

• Test not only memory but the ability to think critically about science and scientific processes and concepts.
• Include matter and energy, equilibrium, force and motion, physical and chemical properties, the relationship between organisms and the environment, the components of our solar system, the composition of matter and genetics.
• 50 objective questions
• 45 mins

• 6th-8th (3 Contestants Total)