List

There's actually very little to say for the examination. As usual, before the viva list was out, some students turned up to my friendly colleagues and asked for some hint - or counseling in reality.

Many of you many not know 20 years ago there was no viva list of medicine after the examination. The chairman called the whole class of final year student to come to the lecture theatre the morning after clinical examination was completed, and announced the viva list. In fact, students who were requested to attend the pull-up viva had only 15 to 30 minutes for preparation - enough for nothing but putting on a tie or tidying up the dress so that one would look less miserable.

Alas, those were the sweet old days when the word privacy had not yet appeared in our dictionary.

PS. After my own examination, I had the opportunity of asking GN - the chairman at that time - for the purpose of such a short notice. His response was seminal:

We want to check how much they master, not what they could take in by short term memory.