Grading Scale for Debate Presentation
Points	Description
24-25	Excellent voice quality, animation, and contact with audience. Excellent pacing and easy to understand. Use of notes, but no word-for-word reading directly from notes. Able to hold audience's attention. Excellent handling of questions.
22-23	Strong voice quality and easy to understand. Good pacing. Some contact with audience and some animation. Minor reading word-for-word from notes. Average handling of questions.
20-21	Decent voice quality and understandability. Little contact with audience and speech variation. Obvious reading word-for-word from notes.
18-19	Acceptable volume, but very fast or very slow. Ended very early or interrupted far in advance of planned finish. No contact with audience.
17 and below	Difficult to hear or understand. Audience very distracted.
Note: The use of note cards is encouraged. What is penalized is obvious word-for-word reading of complete sentences directly from the notes. This is presentation, not a prepared speech.