Purpose Statement: Persuade my audience that students feel an enormous amount of pressure on themselves for an exam, but if they were given more exam opportunities they would feel less stressed.
Thesis Statement: Students stress about midterm and final exams that basically determine their entire overall grade.
Introduction:
Students are stressed about doing well on an exam because they only have a few of them in a class and they are weighted high.
- My friend is very smart, but when it comes to exams she gets very bad test anxiety and blanks on all of the information she studied so hard.
- Students look up what grade they need on a final exam to get the grade they want in a class. This puts a lot of pressure on the student.
- Midterm and final exams stress students out.
Body:
Main Point 1: Midterm and final exams stress out students, which can affect their mental health.
- Mental Health of college students
- Professors talk about it in a stressful way.
Main Point 2: Students may not be strong test takers because they get anxiety during it, but they are strong in other aspects of the class.
- Exams weighted very high
- Not a lot of other assignments in some classes
- Students blank before
Main Point 3: Solutions
- Professors give more exams frequently that are weighted less so they can have more opportunities to succeed
- Professors give more assignments
- Professors talk about it in a less intimidating way
Conclusion:
Briefly go over go over the main points in the speech and conclude with a strong statement.
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