Comment by bhaney

Yeah, that sounds great, but the article completely fails to offer a solution to the reason universities have largely dropped oral exams in the first place, which is that they're expensive. Oral exams need much more time from competent evaluators than written exams do, and those evaluators need to be paid for their time. The vast majority of universities these days are going to prioritize cost-reduction over quality of education if they can get away with it, and they probably can.