Part of the expanding PassProfessor catalog: This program is in the works — a chapter-simulation program covering the full scope of a public speaking / oral communication course, organized chapter by chapter. Join the notify list and we will email you the day it launches.
This program is part of the expanding PassProfessor catalog — join the notify list and we’ll email you when enrollment opens.
PassProfessor’s Public Speaking program is a chapter-simulation program for students taking a public speaking / oral communication course. You pick the course, then pick the textbook and edition your class uses, and the program builds chapter-based simulation exams optimized for that book’s chapter order — so the practice you do this week matches the chapter your instructor is teaching this week. The program is organized across 12 chapters plus an applied speech-analysis set and an integrative synthesis set, covering the communication process and listening, ethics and anxiety, audience analysis, topic selection and research, supporting material, organizing and outlining, language and delivery, and informative, persuasive, and special-occasion speaking. There is no licensing exam at the end of a public speaking / oral communication course — there is your instructor’s exam, chapter by chapter — and this program is built to rehearse exactly that.
PassProfessor’s Public Speaking program is a chapter-simulation program for the undergraduate public speaking / oral communication course: original practice questions organized chapter by chapter — speaking and listening foundations, audience analysis, topic selection and research, organizing and outlining, language and delivery, and informative, persuasive, and special-occasion speaking — matched by textbook and edition so chapter drills follow the chapter your instructor is teaching. It rehearses the written, concept side of your instructor’s tests; your speeches themselves are graded in the classroom, as they must be.
What this program is — and what it is not
It is a simulation of your course, not a licensing product. Licensing-exam prep rehearses one fixed, official exam. A college course works differently: your instructor chooses the textbook, sets the chapter order, and writes the exams. This program is designed around that reality. The textbook-and-edition selector aligns the simulations to the chapter sequence of the book your course actually uses, and chapter drills let you practice one chapter at a time, at the point in the semester when you need it.
It is not published, sponsored, or endorsed by any textbook publisher or author. PassProfessor is an independent study provider. The program is never branded or titled under a textbook’s name, and nothing in it reproduces textbook text, textbook figures, or a publisher’s test bank. Selecting your textbook only tells the program which chapter order to organize your practice around.
Every question is original. The bank was built from the published structure of a public speaking / oral communication course — the standard chapter sequence and topic scope the discipline itself uses — and every stem, scenario, and answer option was written from scratch and checked against verified disciplinary facts. Sources supplied facts and course structure only; the questions are ours.
What’s included
Practice organized the way your course is organized. The bank follows a 12-chapter structure that mirrors the standard public speaking / oral communication course, from the foundations of speaking and listening through special-occasion and small-group speaking in outline, plus an applied speech-analysis set and an integrative synthesis set. The full chapter-by-chapter breakdown is in the coverage table below.
Chapter drills. Practice a single chapter — only that chapter — until the misses stop repeating. Finished the persuasion lectures? Drill that chapter until the fallacies and appeals feel automatic. Informative unit test in ten days? Work the informative speaking chapter in sequence, the way your course presents it.
Chapter-based simulation exams. When a chapter test or a unit exam approaches, sit a timed simulation built from the chapters it covers, in the proportions your selected textbook’s organization suggests. Simulations draw questions you have not seen first, so a second or third run at the same chapter is a fresh test, not a memory exercise.
A textbook-and-edition selector. Different textbooks divide the same material into chapters differently — one book’s single chapter is another book’s two. When you select the textbook and edition your course uses, the program maps its bank onto that book’s chapter organization, so the chapter number in your practice means the same chapter in your syllabus.
Results broken down by chapter and topic. Your practice results report by chapter, so a weak area — say, organizational patterns, or persuasive reasoning — shows up in your data while there is still time to fix it, not for the first time on a graded exam.
A note on editions and course versions. Instructors adopt different textbooks and different editions of the same textbook, and departments periodically revise the course itself. The bank’s organization follows the discipline’s standard chapter structure — the sequence the field itself teaches — and the selector maps that structure onto your edition’s numbering, so a chapter that your book splits in two, or merges into one, still lines up with the practice built for it. Where an instructor reorders chapters, chapter drills can be assembled in your course’s order; the practice follows the syllabus, not the other way around.
The course at a glance
Public Speaking has no single official exam, so there is no official exam-facts table to publish — your instructor’s syllabus is the authority for your course’s test dates, formats, and grading. What is standard is the scope of the discipline itself, summarized here as course background. For the full picture of what a public speaking / oral communication course covers and how to study it, see our Public Speaking study guide.
| Undergraduate public speaking / oral communication — the course this program simulates | |
|---|---|
| Course type | Undergraduate college course (a standard general-education communication course; graded primarily on delivered speeches, with written examinations over the course concepts in most sections) |
| Standard scope | Foundations — the communication process, listening, and public speaking and critical thinking; ethics and speech anxiety; audience analysis and adaptation; selecting topics and purposes; researching and supporting material — evidence, sources, and reasoning; organizing the speech — structure, outlines, introductions and conclusions, transitions; language — clarity, vividness, appropriateness; delivery — voice, body, and practice methods; informative speaking; persuasive speaking — credibility, evidence, and emotional appeal, fallacies; special-occasion and ceremonial speaking in outline; small-group communication in outline |
| How the course is assessed | Instructor-set chapter tests, unit exams, and a final — formats and weights vary by instructor and institution |
| This program’s bank | Chapter-based practice across 12 chapters + applied and synthesis sets |
| Program format | Chapter drills and chapter-based simulation exams, organized by your selected textbook/edition |
How the practice maps to the course
The program follows the standard chapter organization of the course, below. Chapter drills draw only from the chapter you select, and simulation exams can be built over any set of chapters.
| Chapter | Coverage |
|---|---|
| Foundations: Speaking, Listening, and the Communication Process | — |
| Ethics and Speech Anxiety | — |
| Audience Analysis and Adaptation | — |
| Selecting Topics and Purposes | — |
| Researching and Supporting Material | — |
| Organizing the Speech | — |
| Outlining, Introductions, and Conclusions | — |
| Language | — |
| Delivery | — |
| Informative Speaking | — |
| Persuasive Speaking | — |
| Special-Occasion and Small-Group Speaking in Outline | — |
A note on what practice can and cannot do in this course: the speeches themselves are performances, graded live by your instructor against the course’s rubrics, and no question bank rehearses them. What the written side of the course grades — the concepts, structures, fallacies, patterns, and standards in the chapters above — is exactly what this program drills, so that the knowledge underneath the performance is secure.
How to use it
- Join the notify list today. When the program opens, set up your course first: select Public Speaking, then select the textbook and edition your syllabus names.
- Drill the chapter you are in. After each lecture block, drill that chapter while the material is current. Short, chapter-matched practice beats a single long session the night before the test.
- Watch your chapter breakdown. Your results show which chapters are costing you. Return to the weakest chapter’s drill before moving on — the course builds cumulatively in performance — each speech spends the previous units’ skills — while its written concepts accumulate chapter by chapter in the ordinary way.
- Simulate before each graded test. In the days before a chapter test or unit exam, sit a timed simulation over exactly the chapters it covers. Practice the pacing and the question style, not just the facts.
- Use the integrated set before midterms and finals. The cross-chapter questions combine chapters the way cumulative exams do. They are the closest rehearsal for a final that reaches back to the start of the term.
Frequently asked questions
Is this a licensing exam prep program? No. Public speaking is a college course, not a licensed credential, and there is no official exam to prepare for. This is a chapter-simulation program: it rehearses the written, concept side of your instructor’s tests, chapter by chapter, using original questions built to the standard scope of the undergraduate course. Your speeches are graded in your classroom.
What topics does the program cover? The standard scope of public speaking / oral communication: the communication process and listening; ethics and speech anxiety; audience analysis; topic selection and purposes; research and supporting material; organizing and outlining; introductions and conclusions; language; delivery; informative speaking; persuasive speaking, appeals, and fallacies; and special-occasion and small-group speaking in outline.
Can questions really help with a performance course? Yes — for the half of the course that is knowledge. Audience analysis, organizational patterns, outlining formats, fallacies, and delivery concepts are written-exam material and also the operating system of good speeches. The program drills that knowledge; it does not pretend to rehearse the performances themselves.
How does the textbook selector work? When the program opens, you first pick your course — Public Speaking — and then pick the textbook and edition your class uses. That selection tells the program how to organize the practice: drills are mapped onto your book’s chapter order, so they line up with the chapters as your syllabus presents them.
Is this program affiliated with my textbook’s publisher or author? No. PassProfessor is an independent study provider. The program is not published, sponsored, or endorsed by any textbook publisher or author, it is not branded under any textbook’s name, and it contains no textbook text and no publisher test-bank material. Your textbook selection is used only to organize your practice by chapter.
Where did the questions come from? They were written from scratch for this program, from the published structure of the undergraduate public speaking course — its standard chapter sequence and topic scope, as set out in communication-discipline outcomes — and checked against verified facts of the discipline through the college build lane’s quality control. No question is copied or adapted from a textbook or a test bank.
Can I practice just one chapter? Yes — that is the core of the design. Chapter drills draw only from the chapter you select, so your practice can match the unit your written test covers, whether that is audience analysis, organization, or the persuasion unit.
Does the program help with speech anxiety? The course’s own anxiety unit — its causes and the standard, taught management techniques such as preparation, visualization, and skills training — is covered as course content. The program drills that material like any other chapter; the techniques themselves are practiced in your course, where they belong.
Will this match my instructor’s grading of my speeches? No — speech grading follows your instructor’s rubrics, which only your instructor holds. The program’s scope is the course’s shared conceptual content, the same material your written tests examine.
When can I start using the Public Speaking program? The program is in final preparation. Join the notify list on this page and we will email you the day it opens.
Disclaimer
PassProfessor is an independent exam-preparation and study provider, based in Salt Lake City, UT and operating entirely online. This program is study preparation only: it is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any textbook publisher, textbook author, college, university, or instructor, and it reproduces no textbook content. Practice questions are original, written to the published structure and standard scope of a public speaking / oral communication course; they are not questions from any instructor’s exam or any publisher’s test bank. Your course syllabus is the authority for your course’s schedule, formats, and grading.