Showing posts with label Extempore speech test. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Extempore speech test. Show all posts

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Voice modulation is crucial in Extempore Speech!



MBA aspirants might be told to speak extempore on assigned topic for five minutes. This is to judge your communication skills, confidence level.

Your voice modulation is crucial here as it solely depends on your quality of voice and delivery with voice whether you are being heard or not. 

You can improve in voice and delivery with practice and listen to great speeches of Nehru and Churchill. You must have observed that how U S President Barack Hussein Obama delivers his speech. Observe his dialogue delivery with multiple modulations in voice. 

Great speakers are known for their content of speech but they are liked by listeners for their voice. They are recognized by their voice. That’s the importance of voice modulation. 

Suggested to work on voice quality and practice with variety of Extempore Speech Topics to be successful. 



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Practice for 5 minutes for Extempore Speech!



MBA aspirants might be given a topic to speak Extempore so that you can be judged on your communication skills.

Though there can be a varied range of topic and you really cannot presume what your topic can be, but still you have to practice. The best way to practice for extempore is to practice speaking for 5 minutes every day. 

Since you can be given any topic, you can start your practice with a simple topic and move on to a little higher level. For example, let the topic be your favorite color. Then in front of your friends or seniors, speak for a minute. Ask them to keep an eye on the watch so that you don’t exceed the time limit. Continue this practice till the day of your personal assessment round.

Don’t forget to take feedback from your friends or seniors who are judging you. Keep a check on your body language, diction and speaking. Don’t be too conscious while speaking. Utilize the first few seconds in collecting your thoughts and get going about it.

In this way, you can choose a topic everyday based on your profile, the subject you studied, your interests, person who inspire you and anything you can think of which might appear in your extempore.



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How to choose best B school?



Very often MBA aspirants keep on guessing for selection of B schools. Building or location matters least for post graduation programme like MBA which is residential in nature but infrastructure in form of resource,   pedagogy, industrial relation and placement record matters most.

Option of B School will accrue only after your getting high percentile and your further getting success in WAT / Essay writing / Extempore Speech / GD & PI.

Based on your performance on above parameters you might get selection letter and now you would get chance to avail option of B schools from where you would have received such letters. 

Besides considering USPs of B schools, you must also introspect yourself again and then find the final suitability so that you are on the trajectory of great learning of management education! 



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Topics at Extempore Speech



As the name stands Extempore that means you are speaking without preparation on some topic which might be assigned by admission selection panel at B-School. 

Since you need to speak Extempore hence, topics are also being given at random.

Nevertheless topics which remain on top of mind can be given from current affairs, current happenings National or Global. 

Topics can vary from sports to economy, politics to corruption, US President election to cyclones. 

You need to understand that selection panel wishes to judge your communication power and synchronization of your thoughts. So once you are able to perform on this parameter you will be through in Extempore Speech test.



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How to be at best at Extempore Speech



MBA aspirants who will be assigned a topic at random to speak without prior preparation for Extempore Speech.

You need to have best of the oral communication and domain knowledge so that you can focus on topic.

You must conclude the topic in such a way that audience should get a take away message from your conclusion. 

You must ensure that you are looking at the audience in a straight manner and have eye to eye contact with each and every person of selection panel. Better would be you treat the panel as a single person.

Ensure that you are being responded equally well from the sign language of audience.