<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/@d_christiansen" class="u-url mention">@<span>d_christiansen</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/@sprout" class="u-url mention">@<span>sprout</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/@MartinEscardo" class="u-url mention">@<span>MartinEscardo</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/@jonmsterling" class="u-url mention">@<span>jonmsterling</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/@ohad" class="u-url mention">@<span>ohad</span></a></span> oral exams are certainly great, but I think the issue is the scaleability: the paper exam preference sticks because you can test everyone in parallel; oral exams usually work when your class is small enough to have a long enough exam period without actually having the course staff commit to more time than they have, and this doesn’t work if your class is, say, >50 people. Of course my personal opinion is that classes that big in the first place aren’t the greatest, but working with realistic resources it’s what ends up being viable in most big schools</p>
