If you were in college and given the option of taking an exam in class or at home, which would you select?  Most students would select the take-home test without hesitating.  There’s something appealing about taking a test at your own place according to your own schedule. (more…)

Standardized tests have long been revered as the adjudicators of a student’s successful future.  However, they may have a strong contender; the ever formidable and much mentioned, oral exam.  In a January, 2007 polling of medical specialty boards, it was discovered that oral exams were a requirement for 15 out of 24 board-certification approval processes.  Why? (more…)