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Outline generator

Free topic-to-outline tool. Biggest long-tail search win: students look for an outline long before they look for a deck maker.

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How to write a PPT outline that actually gets you marks

A presentation outline is the plan you build the slides from. Most students lose marks not because their topic was weak, but because they opened PowerPoint first and started typing bullet points. Writing the outline as plain text first means you can see the shape of the argument before you spend time on formatting it.

The structure that works for almost every college seminar is the same: open with a hook that makes the topic matter, give the background, state the problem, explain your method, show what you found, and close with what it means. That maps cleanly onto slides, and it maps onto how a viva examiner will question you.

Type your topic above and this page gives you that structure as a slide-by-slide outline you can edit and paste straight into the deck. Ten slides is the safe default for a ten-minute seminar; twelve is the ceiling before you start rushing.

Worth knowing

  • One idea per slide. If a slide needs two headings, it is two slides.
  • Put your conclusion in the outline first, then work backwards — it stops you drifting.
  • Keep the methodology slide even when the work feels small; examiners look for it.
  • Put no more than five words on a bullet. If a bullet needs a sentence, that sentence belongs in what you say.