oral exam
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- noun
- /ˈɔrəl ɪɡˈzæm/
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examen oral
- Okay, don't forget to study your French over the weekend for the oral exam on Monday and the quiz on Wednesday.
- final oral exams
- cooperative oral exam
If you ask me how would I, to Gary's point, best evaluate teaching, it's by oral exams.
- If you ask me how would I, to Gary's point, best evaluate teaching, it's by oral exams.
- And I also know that in an appreciable fraction of oral exams, there will be one person in the committee and say what is your favorite atom?
- And then when you get to the faculty on a oral exam, it will be easy.
Examples
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The students prepared thoroughly for their oral exam, knowing it would test their understanding of the course material.
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I didn't do so well in the oral exam, but I came in first in the math test.
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-Well, how about an oral exam for extra credit?
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I was thinking maybe you could do an oral exam.
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I never took the oral exam, you know.
Fiction book (1990) -
Like a couple of students setting out to prepare for oral exams.
Fiction book (2000) -
I'm on your oral exam board.
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Our oral exam point value is a tenth of the total grade.
Academic text (2000) -
Student data and comments confirm that the cooperative oral exam provides a valuable method of assessing student learning.
Academic text (2000) -
The cooperative oral exam described in this article is an assessment format that is applicable in a wide range of disciplines.
Academic text (2000)
Synonyms
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A formal test of what someone knows or can do
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A formal test that checks knowledge, usually with written questions
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A spoken exam where you must answer aloud
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An exam where you answer spoken questions to show what you know
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An oral exam at the end of a PhD to test your research
An exam taken by speaking at school or university
How Formal
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an examination conducted orally' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'oral' (spoken) with 'exam' (a formal assessment). This adjective+noun composition is regular and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The noun oral exam uses the word oral meaning 'by mouth' and exam meaning 'test'. It gives the image of students answering questions out loud, so it means a test where people speak their answers.