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The oral exam (also oral test or viva voce; Rigorosum in German-speaking nations) is a practice in many schools and disciplines in which an examiner poses questions to the student in spoken form. The student has to answer the question in such a way as to demonstrate sufficient knowledge of the subject to pass the exam.
A typical viva lasts for approximately 3 hours, though there is no formal time limit. Involved in the viva are two examiners and the candidate. Usually, one examiner is an academic from the candidate's own university department (but not one of the candidate's supervisors) and the other is an external examiner from a different university.
Shimer College students taking a comprehensive exam, 1966.. In higher education, a comprehensive examination (or comprehensive exam or exams), often abbreviated as "comps", is a specific type of examination [1] that must be completed by graduate students in some disciplines and courses of study, and also by undergraduate students in some institutions and departments.
A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD or DPhil; Latin: philosophiae doctor or doctor in philosophia) [1] is a terminal degree, that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research.
The Federal Aviation Administration is reporting a record number of flights for Thanksgiving week this year. There were over 232,000 flights across the U.S. between Nov. 24 and 28, the FAA said ...
Ariana Grande, the pop music and "Wicked" star, is speaking out about comments surrounding her body, calling the comments "horrible."
The Trump factor. In 2020, Trump claimed long before the election that the only way he could lose was if it was “rigged.” Then, when he did lose, he continued to publicly push this falsehood ...
A PhD Comics special on the occasion of Open Access Week 2012 Piled Higher and Deeper (also known as PhD Comics ) [ 1 ] is a discontinued newspaper and webcomic strip produced from 1997 to 2018. The series was written and drawn by Jorge Cham , and follows the lives of several grad students .