The Viva Council · oral exam practice, free
Prepare for your next oral exam.
Written work can be generated in a minute, so schools and universities are asking the question that cannot be faked: explain it to me. This panel examines you on your own essay, project, coursework or thesis, one hard question at a time, refuses to let a vague answer pass, and hands back a readiness report with the five questions you must drill. Students use it to prepare. Teachers use it to test.
Convene your panel
The examiners prepare from what you give them. The better the brief, the more real the exam. Teachers: paste the assignment brief and a model answer, or sit with the student and let them answer.
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A friend testing you pulls their punches.
Your teacher has thirty students, your supervisor is busy, and your friends want you to feel good. This one does not pull its punches, never gets tired of you, and remembers every weak answer. That is the whole point of a council that is paid to tell you no.
Six formats, one method
Your exam, not a generic one.
An examiner and a moderator on your essay, project, coursework or EPQ. Plain questions, no mercy for a copied answer.
A tutor and a second marker on your coursework, project or dissertation. Why this method, what does it show, where is it weak.
An internal and an external examiner, behind a closed door, for as long as it takes.
A full committee, a public presentation, then the questions that decide it.
One appointed opponent, in public, whose job is to find where the work breaks.
A mixed panel, mixed conventions, and no assumption you know the etiquette.
How it works
Three steps, then the room.
Your field, your title, your abstract, and the contributions you claim are new. The panel prepares from exactly that, then examines you in your real examination format.
One hostile question at a time. It quotes your own brief back at you. If an answer is vague, it does not move on, it presses. It remembers every soft spot and resurfaces it harder.
A readiness score, the answers that would hurt you with the stronger version written out, and the five questions you must drill before the real thing. An honest low score is the council working.
It will never tell you whether you pass. Nothing can. It tells you what you are before you walk in. For the written analysis itself, Defend it interrogates it the same way.
For teachers and lecturers
Test whether the work is theirs.
A fluent essay no longer proves understanding. Ten minutes of questions does. Three ways to use the room with a class, all free today.
Give students the link before an oral assessment. Each one gets a readiness report with the five questions to drill, and arrives having already been pressed.
Paste the assignment brief, hand the student the screen, and watch them answer. The panel does the pressing; you do the judging.
Choose the school format, paste the student's own summary, and see whether they can explain their choices. The report counts the answers that fell apart under one follow-up.
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