Personally, I do great in presentations (even ones where I know I'm being evaluated, like when presenting my PhD thesis), but I do terribly in oral exams.
In a presentation, you are in control. You decide how you will present the information and what is relevant to the theme. Even if you get questions, they will be related to the matter at hand that you need to dominate in order to present.
In oral exams, the pressure is just too great. I doubt it translates to a proper job. When I'm doing my job, I don't need to come up with answers right there on the spot. If I don't remember something, I have time to think it through, or to go and check it out. I think most jobs are like this.
I don't mind the pressure when something goes wrong in the job and needs a quick fix. But being right there, in an oral exam, in front of an antagonistic judge (even if they have good intentions) is not really the way to show knowledge, I think.
In a presentation, you are in control. You decide how you will present the information and what is relevant to the theme. Even if you get questions, they will be related to the matter at hand that you need to dominate in order to present.
In oral exams, the pressure is just too great. I doubt it translates to a proper job. When I'm doing my job, I don't need to come up with answers right there on the spot. If I don't remember something, I have time to think it through, or to go and check it out. I think most jobs are like this.
I don't mind the pressure when something goes wrong in the job and needs a quick fix. But being right there, in an oral exam, in front of an antagonistic judge (even if they have good intentions) is not really the way to show knowledge, I think.