Unless... You have an AI listening and evaluating their oral exam.

I know it sounds like a farce. Because it is. But it might also be a proper solution.

Not really in my experience. That's how final PhD examinations are typically done. Outside of that, it's pretty rare. That said, PhD students are also regularly interacting with faculty members and discussing their work so it would be difficult to get by without actually knowing things.

Today’s first year undergraduate is roughly as literate as a sixth grader was a century ago. College was never meant to be a mass remedial education program and by attempting to be one it’s failing at its core mission.

All this nannyware of various sorts is just more evidence, proof even, of how few of those students should even be there.

Paper and pencil or an air-gapped computer lab. This ain't rocket science.

If only there was a new labor saving technology that could be used...

Rough, but perfectly doable. It's how pretty much all my finals were done way back when. Classes of 200 and more.