Oral exam. They present you with a problem; you have 20 minutes to look at it and try to solve it or at least think up something to say about it, and then you present your solution and/or answer their questions for 20 minutes. To discourage cheating, the 40-minute periods are consecutive, with no time allowed to go from one room to the other. Thus you run from examination room to examination room, to have as much of the 20 minutes of preparation time as possible.
The Idea Factory, Learning to think at MIT
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