
You will also hone in on how much time is needed to present each individual slide. And with your practice, you will make discoveries about what information is extraneous, what can be removed and where you can strengthen and consolidate your explanations. This is perhaps the most important caveat of all: the 1 minute/1 slide rule is for planning purposes only! After using this rule to draft your initial slide deck, you will NEED to practice. Caveat 1: Practice is the only way to determine the right number of slides I agree with them and I want to heavily caveat this rule so that I am not misleading readers. This rule has been written about extensively and many expert science presenters or presentation coaches will scoff at this, saying that this is an antiquated way of thinking about a presentation. On average, it takes 1 minute to present 1 slide. If you’re in the planning stages of your research presentation, are currently putting together slides, and like me, just need some guardrails to help you target a specific number of slides, here is a good rule of thumb: Guidelines For an Average Time Per PowerPoint Slide & 3 Caveats ), but also how you present it (i.e., superficially, in-depth, etc.). That includes not only the content on each of your slides (i.e., graphs, images, text, videos, animations etc.

For any given presentation length, the truth is that the number of slides depends on the content in your presentation. But don’t worry, there are some rules that you can use to make rough approximations. I’ll save you from digging through this blog and give you the answer up front: there is no hard and fast rule for how many slides to use per minute of presentation.
