[epolanski]

Oral exams seem the only way to prevent wastes of time.

Anything else can easily be cheated in many ways.

[rootusrootus]

Text exams like the old days should also be pretty easy to prevent cheating on. But I have had similar thoughts on oral exams -- I think elite universities may start doing it in order to preserve/improve the perception of their degrees.

[epolanski]

Text exams have been cheated since centuries in countless ways before computers were a thing.