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		mensetmanusman on Dec 1, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: College students are learning hard lessons about a... This sounds like a nightmare. Just use all this time we have to give 1:1 verbal exams to test knowledge and gaps.

542458 on Dec 1, 2020 [–]

Then you’re mainly testing oral English skills.

Also, in most subjects I could mark an exam in a fifth of the time it took a student to write - whereas with oral exams it takes at least as long as the exam took. Quintupling the load on TAs and profs sounds like a raw deal.

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