February 15, 2026Charan Puvvala

The Return of Oral Assessment in 2026

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Universities shut down oral exams a decade ago due to scale constraints. But the world has changed. AI conversation is now good enough to structure, conduct, and evaluate interviews at scale.

Live manual vivas take 30+ minutes per student. With Oralio, educators can automate the conversational verification entirely. The AI reads the student's submission, dynamically adapts the questions, and produces a timestamped transcript and rubric-aligned scoring in minutes.

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