Question- Write a short note on oral tests.

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Oral tests are conducted formally to evaluate if a student has the knowledge and understanding of some key concepts taught to him. In an oral test, a teacher or group of teachers ask the students a set of pre-determined oral test questions and listen to and evaluate their responses to those questions. Teachers take detailed notes of each student’s responses usually using rating sheets that contain the answers to the questions. Communication, the key to an oral test, is highly structured and mostly one-way. Students are not given the opportunity to present information unless specifically requested or to ask questions about the content which is not selected for the test. Oral tests also require previous planning. Questions should be predefined and documented by the teacher. The questions should be arranged in order of difficulty. Wherever probing is necessary, probable probing questions should also be written down in advance. For each question, the expected answers, the value points and the manner of presentation should also be written down.

For objectivity, student’s answers should either be recorded on a digital recorder or recorded on paper. As a student responds, teacher checks the correct answers and put crosses on the incorrect answers.

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