Imagine taking your final exams sitting at a picnic table under blue skies amid olive groves and chirping birds.
That dreamlike scenario is what awaits the students of the Ciufelli Agricultural Institute as coronavirus has made indoor exams unsafe and impracticable.
All students in Italy take oral as well as written exams to get a diploma or degree. Normally, all are held indoors but this year written exams have been scrapped to avoid crowded classrooms.The professors, wearing masks, sat with their laptops and printers at picnic tables set out in a horse-shoe pattern around 19-year-old Matteo Lenticchia, who answered a stream of hypothetical questions about milk, cheese, food safety, consumption patterns and distribution.
"In a sense, it actually relaxes you being outside immersed in nature," Lenticchia said."It's much more relaxing to hear the sounds of birds than of cars or city traffic."
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