What is a recommended purpose of quick polls during a seminar session?

• A. Rate the speaker's charisma
• B. Increase slide count
• C. Calibrate pace and content
• D. Replace all formal assessments

Answer: (C)

Quick polls act as a real-time feedback tool that helps you tailor the session to the audience's needs. They are best used to calibrate pace and content: after a section, a poll shows whether people followed, if you should speed up, slow down, or spend more time on a point. This keeps the material landing effectively and the seminar moving at an appropriate pace. They aren’t about judging the speaker’s charisma, nor about simply increasing slides, and they don’t replace formal assessments, which are for more formal evaluation later.