Prompts for Practice: National Online Forensics

At NOF, we pride ourselves on crafting unique prompts for our tournaments. Once a competition concludes, we believe in giving students the chance to continue honing their skills with these prompts outside the competitive arena.

Below, you'll find a collection of prompts from categories like Impromptu, SPAR, NOF Parli, and Extemporaneous from our most recent tournament. We trust these will serve as valuable practice material for your upcoming competitions!

Impromptu:

• Coffee

• Argument

• Deceit

• If you carry the egg basket do not dance. --Ambede proverb

• Only a wise person can solve a difficult problem. --African Proverb

• Character is power. --Booker T. Washington

SPAR:

• The wealthy should pay more taxes

• Students should have input on the school curriculum

• People have a responsibility to help one another out

• The voting age should be lowered to 16

Extemp:

• Has Biden sabotaged Harris’s campaign?

• Is Isreal’s next move dependant upon the US election?

• How has El Salvador’s adoption of Bitcoin affected its citizens’ way of life?

IPDA:

• Actions speak louder than words

• The Internet should be regulated.

• The electoral college should be replaced with a national popular vote

• Homeschooling does more harm than good

• Resolved: In education, career preparation is overvalued.