> Many institutions have a regulation on the books to allow for oral examination to be carried out for any course at the discretion of the course leader, for th

> Many institutions have a regulation on the books to allow for oral examination to be carried out for any course at the discretion of the course leader, for the purpose of evaluating a student for award of a grade. In my country, that would require the whole class to be subjected to an oral exam; as our examination regulations require strict equivalency of evaluation methods across all students that take the course during the term (contents of the exam may differ across students but the main method of evaluation, and outcomes to be measured, may not).