The Ready Answers Bible Memorization Program is designed to help you memorize Bible passages easily and quickly. It is based on many well-proven strategies for memorizing. From this page you can get our material designed to help prepare for tests on the Biblical books of Mark, 1Peter, 2Peter, 1John, 2John, and 3John. This should be helpful for tests such as the 2027 Pathfinder Bible Experience or Bible Bowl events. It is also helpful for any study of these chapters. On other web pages at this site, we also have memorization guides for other books of the Bible.

We also plan to have some materials for the TED Adventurer Bible Experience, but don't currently have anything for the NAD Adventurer Bible Games

Official PBE Information

We supply unofficial study guides. For the official rules and instructions to register a team, please go the the official PBE site for your division. Searching the web, the following SDA division-level pages:

• North-American Division Pathfinder PBE
• Trans-European Division Pathfinder PBE
• Trans-European Division Adventurer ABE

Help for PBE Coaches

If this is your first time coaching a PBE team, you will want to learn from the success of others. If you have been a successful coach, you can help other teams overcome their challenges by participating in PBE Coach discussion groups. Please join a discussion group:

• Telegram: Unofficial NAD PBE Coaches Forum http://t.me/nadpbecoachesforum
• For individual and group quizzes and games https://www.pbecoach.com

Fund Raising

Some teams plan for success by raising the funds early to ensure they will be able to go the the final NAD testing level. One very successful fund-raising idea is to have a 30-day verse memorizing event. Students can ask sponsors to contribute $2 per verse for 30 verses that they learn within those 30 days. Some people even pledge to give $4 per verse if they learn 60 verses. This not only funds the trips, it also can be a great incentive to get ready for the tests.

Team Organization

You will probably want to consider carefully who on the team should be responsible for which portions of this year’s material. Since some chapters are smaller than others and some books are smaller than others. This year some verses are very similar making them difficult for one person to be ready to answer questions on both. Assigning students to each learn the same number of chapters might not be the best strategy. The tables below show our recommended assignments. The goals we had were:

• Each assignment should be about the same size as the other assignments. This is to help spread the effort equally across the team members.
• This year we wanted each student to learn a similar sized portion of the gospel.
• To simplify remembering who is responsible for which verse, each student should generally be responsible for as few blocks of verses as possible. This is often in conflict with the other goals so a balance must be selected.
• We consider if the content of two verses is similar. We try to assign these verses to different team members, because many people have difficulty memorizing two passages that are nearly identical. An example of this in this year's material is 1John 5:2 and 1John 2:3 They have almost the same message and use some of the same words, but they are not identical.
• Each verse should be assigned to one student as a primary responsibility and to a second student as a secondary responsibility. This enables the students to consult with each other during the tests and help each other remember the details required to answer the questions. Also, if one student unexpectedly is not able to participate, the remaining team members are prepared to answer the questions.
• Each student should have a study partner that leverages the primary and secondary responsibilities. This way, pairs of students can study more of their own verses in a study session than they could studying as a full team for the same amount of time.

Suppose the team members are Alex, Adam, Lexi, Jordan, Jeffrey, and Noah. Also suppose that Alex and Lexi will be partners, Jeffrey and Adam will be partners, and that Jordan and Noah will be partners. The table below shows that Alex has the primary responsibility for Mark 1-3 and 1Peter 1-2, and Lexi has secondary responsibility for these same chapters.