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mjleeyesterday at 9:07 PM2 repliesview on HN

This sounds extremely susceptible to unconscious bias, or even just straightforward discrimination.


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Swizecyesterday at 10:33 PM

It does! That’s why you can ask to be evaluated by a commission of professors.

If you don’t pass after 3 tries, commission is mandatory.

You also have a paper trail of written exams and midterms to back you up. If you keep getting good grades and failing the oral, people will find that obviously suspicious.

Honestly the only times I had any trouble in the orals were the exams where I baaaaarely passed the written. Usually oral feels like the chill easy part compared to written because you can have a back-n-forth with the professor.

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jubilantiyesterday at 10:36 PM

Moreso than a job interview?

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