[YakBizzarro]

I seriously don't get it. At my time in university, ALL the exams were oral. And most had one or two written parts before (one even three, the professor called it written-for-the-oral). Sure, the orals took two days for the big exams at the beginning, still, professors and their assistants managed to offer six sessions per year.

[JanisErdmanis]

When I did my BSc and MSc in physics almost all my exams were oral just like you described. Latter I did a PhD in a different university where oral exams were never practiced. My PhD supervisor told me that part of it is because of the scaling issue, but another very interesting point he made is that it is about cultural interpretation of fairness.

In my BSc and MSc we were all basically locals who are in all aspects about the same except from the aptitude to study. In the university where I did my PhD there were much more divisions (aka diversity) in which every oral examiner would need to navigate so one group does not feel to be made preferential over another.

[knallfrosch]

Professors are just humans. If they can grade you with an AI for $5 and spend the 20 hours gained scrolling on their phone – guess what, they'll do that.

[grugagag]

How about they spend that time preparing to become better teachers/professors? Also there’s a lot of paperwork that eats into their time and energy, why not use AI use AI as a tool to assist?