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~10 min presentation question

Postby Jaltus-bot » Sun Mar 12, 2006 11:37 pm

Is 8 minutes long enough for an approximately 10 minute presentation?
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Postby Yumie » Mon Mar 13, 2006 6:01 am

When you ask if eight minutes is long enough-- is it a school presentation that you'll be graded on timewise? Because if that were the case, I'd say you better get it as close to ten minutes as absolutely possible. If it's a different kind of presentation, one that's more informal, I'd say that's prooty close.
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Postby Rogie » Mon Mar 13, 2006 8:58 am

Based on your prayer request I recently read in the Prayer Room, I'm going to assume that this is for school. I'm also going to assume that you have practiced this presentation and have timed yourself doing it at 8 minutes. I would definitely add more to it, since people usually speed up when they're actually doing the presentation, usually to get it over with (learned from Public Speaking, Comm. 100). If it's 8 minutes now, it could end up being 6 minutes when you actually do it, which would probably hurt your grade. What I would do (and have done) is get at least two minutes above the time limit while practicing. That way, you have two minutes to play with during the actual presentation and if you speed up, then you should fall right around the 10-minute limit.

What really helps is if the teacher said at least 10 minutes; it never hurts to go a little over time if it ensures that you'll be at the minimum. :thumb:

Oh, and I'll surely pray. ;)
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Postby rii namuras » Mon Mar 13, 2006 9:02 am

(It depends. In the National Christian Forensics and Communicators Association (read: Homeschool speech and debate), in our speech events, all except for limited prep have a max time of ten minutes. As Mrs. Dargan (one of the speech coaches in our speech and debate club) said last year, "Eight minutes and thirty seconds is the happy place." Everyone laughed, but it's true. As Yumie said, if you're being graded on it, like for school, get as close as you possibly can to ten minutes. But if not, even for competition (I've seen 8:45 get as high as second place overall, at the very least breaking to finals), around eight but closer to nine is okay.)

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