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It's how it's described in the UK system, so you get people taking their "French orals" which always sounded funny to me.
by stuaxo 4y ago
It's how it's described in the UK system, so you get people taking their "French orals" which always sounded funny to me.
- kwhitefoot 4y agoPeople don't say viva any more? For viva voce. I must be getting old.
- mattkrause 4y agoAre all oral exams vivas? My (distant, secondhand) impression was that it was mostly used for the thesis defense.
- kwhitefoot 4y agoWell the original topic was Heisenberg's doctoral defence. And yes, it is mostly use for that even though the term itself is quite general.
- BeetleB 4y agoIt's how it is in the US as well.
- useryman 4y agoWhen I was in school, all of my teachers referred to language listening exams (a tape is played, you have a sheet of questions to answer) as "aural" which mirrors calling the spoken exams "orals". Having not heard the word before, I could barely even tell the words apart when mentioned.