06-20-2010, 07:12 AM
I took the Public Speaking DSST exam less than two weeks ago. Am still waiting on the results. My topic was that you should take a position with supporting arguments on your view of a 12-month school year. My audience was college age students 19-30 years old. I spoke for 4min15sec, so right in the middle of the alloted time.
The written test consisted of 84 questions and didn't have a time limit. It dealt with things like logic fallicies (ad hominem, general to specific, slippery slope, bandwagon, etc), relating to your audience, different types of speeches (informative, after-dinner, etc), and things of that sort. Also, if you are going to take this test, look up the Toulmin model and the Monroe Sequence. Two important ones to know.
Anyway, good luck! Hope it helps.
`Dakota
The written test consisted of 84 questions and didn't have a time limit. It dealt with things like logic fallicies (ad hominem, general to specific, slippery slope, bandwagon, etc), relating to your audience, different types of speeches (informative, after-dinner, etc), and things of that sort. Also, if you are going to take this test, look up the Toulmin model and the Monroe Sequence. Two important ones to know.
Anyway, good luck! Hope it helps.
`Dakota
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"I believe in Christianity as I believe the sun rises; not because I see it, but because by it, I see everything else." ~C.S. Lewis
"The greatest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it." ~John Ruskin
"A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction" ~Tolstoy
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