Comment by epolanski

6 hours ago

Oral exams seem the only way to prevent wastes of time.

Anything else can easily be cheated in many ways.

Text exams like the old days should also be pretty easy to prevent cheating on. But I have had similar thoughts on oral exams -- I think elite universities may start doing it in order to preserve/improve the perception of their degrees.

  • Text exams have been cheated since centuries in countless ways before computers were a thing.