Originally Posted by
mooney
One thing I have noticed, in 3 years of giving and sitting in 9e orals, and 13 years of taking them, is that a great deal of students don't/can't/refuse to differentiate between the instructor knowing "this guy knows his stuff, I'm gonna see how deep we can go to kill 2 hours and hopefully teach him or his partner something" vs "he's picking on me and going way too deep to try to fail me." I can't tell you the number of times I heard someone say "X's oral was way too hard and unfair." Did you pass? "Yeah he said I did a good job."
This is where Pinnacle had a very immature training department. The oral or a check should be that and only that. Stick with the script, verify they perform to the standards and that is it. Training is for training events and not to be included in something that is a jeopardy event. Pulling what you just described in a checking event at DL will get you removed from the training department if you try to do it more than once.