oral
n. countablen. a spoken exam rather than a written one. You usually have these in language classes to test how well you can speak.
n. an examination conducted by spoken communication rather than in writing. Frequently used in the context of university degrees or language proficiency assessments.
I have my Spanish oral tomorrow morning.
After passing the written portion of the bar exam, the candidates had to sit for a rigorous oral to prove their legal reasoning skills.
The doctoral candidate defended her thesis during a three-hour oral, during which the committee questioned her methodology and the broader implications of her findings.
PIE word *h₁óh₃s Early 17th century borrowing from Late Latin ōrālis, from ōs (“the mouth”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).
Commonly used in academic contexts; often functions as a shortened form of 'oral exam'.