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  How to Get Good Marks in your Presentation

• use your own words - don't read from a piece of paper
• use note cards to help you remember the topics you want to talk about
• interact with the audience; eg. ask their opinions
• start by giving or asking for information that the audience will agree with, then use this a basis to move on to teach the audience something new and useful
• explain why you think your topic(s) are important
• use visual aids such as pictures and real objects to show the audience
• use rising intonation to hold your audience's attention
• use gestures to reinforce what you are saying
• use body language to show that you are confident
• use humour to keep the audience's attention
• make eye-contact with all of your audience

Check your presentation plan for these things. If you don't have them, try to include them.

Click here to see common ways students loose marks in their presentations.

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Last updated on: Friday, December 14, 2001.