Oral and practical exams
Not all exams involve pen and paper. Sometimes your skills will be tested through oral or practical formats. This section offers tips to help you prepare and boost your confidence, performance, and success.
Oral exams will usually be completed one-on-one with an assessor and will be structured like a discussion. The assessor would be asking you open-ended questions for you to talk freely about the relevant topics. Your responses will be assessed and usually allocated the same range of marks as your written assessments, such as a high distinction, credit, pass and so on.
A practical exam is an assessment of your hands-on skills. This will often involve attending a lab on campus and performing a task or range of tasks to show that you are able to do the skills you learned through the semester. Instead of a range of marks being given, practical exams are often marked either competent or not competent.
The purpose of both types of exams is the same: to assess your learning.