interrogation for a second degree

[ostap77]

I might be wrong but do you ever use an iterrogation-related term for when a person gets a second degree from a college or a university?

 

[bhaisahab]

I might be wrong but do you ever use an iterrogation-related term for when a person gets a second degree from a college or a university?

I've never heard such a term.

 

[Barb_D]

The idiom "Give someone the second degree" means to ask them a lot of questions. In other words, to interrogate them.

 

[ostap77]

The idiom "Give someone the second degree" means to ask them a lot of questions. In other words, to interrogate them.

So If I got a second degree from a college, I could say I got an interrogation?

 

[JohnParis]

I think Barb means "the third degree"..... a colloquial term for an intensive, rough interrogation.
The police give him the third degree but he didn't break.

John

 

[5jj]

Ostap may be thinking of a viva voce.

 

[ostap77]

Ostap may be thing of a viva voce.

If you're talking Latin, I'm a bit rusty. I've never been apprehended. So I wouldn't be asking questions about the police. What I've been trying to figure out is that if there is an expression to mean that a person got a secong degree from college (not police!!!) using the noun "interrogation"? I've been told that if I say I got an interrogation from college, that would mean I got a second degree. True or false?

 

[5jj]

False.

 

[Barb_D]

I think Barb means "the third degree"..... a colloquial term for an intensive, rough interrogation.
The police give him the third degree but he didn't break.

John

Oops. Of course I did.

 

[SoothingDave]

Don't some colleges make a student defend himself to a collection of professors? Maybe that's what he means, though I don't know the exact words for it. I think one defends his thesis.

 

[5jj]

Don't some colleges make a student defend himself to a collection of professors? Maybe that's what he means, though I don't know the exact words for it. I think one defends his thesis.

That's the viva (voce), part of the process of gaining a higher degree. Some people might consider that to be an interrogation, but the word 'interrogation' is no official part of the process.

 

[TheParser]

I might be wrong but do you ever use an iterrogation-related term for when a person gets a second degree from a college or a university?

NOT A TEACHER


Your post came to mind while I was reading an article about a famous

scientist appearing before a group of professors to answer their questions

in order to get his doctorate. The article referred to the meeting as his

oral examination.