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Plan group viva practice with a round-robin rotation so every member asks and answers the same number of questions.
This planner builds a round-robin questioning rota for group viva practice: with n members, the asking offset shifts every round, so nobody questions themselves, each member asks and answers the same number of questions, and after n − 1 rounds everyone has questioned everyone else exactly once. It is made for university students preparing for viva voce, oral defences and lab vivas in a study group, and it returns the full round-by-round schedule plus total and per-round timings.
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Every member asks and answers exactly rounds × questions-per-round questions — no seating luck.
Shows how many rounds it takes (group size minus one) until everyone has questioned everyone else.
Per-round and total minutes from your answer time and optional feedback time per question.
Use a round-robin rotation: seat the group in a fixed order and in each round have member i question the member a fixed offset ahead, shifting the offset by one every round. That guarantees each person asks and answers the same number of questions and never questions themselves, which is exactly the schedule this planner prints.
Group size minus one. In a group of five, five minus one is four rounds gives full pairing coverage — every member has asked every other member exactly once. The planner flags when your chosen number of rounds reaches that threshold.
Two to four minutes per question is a common target for oral-exam practice: long enough to structure an answer (definition, explanation, example) and short enough to keep a group session moving. A four-person group doing three rounds of two questions at three minutes each, plus one feedback minute, needs 96 minutes in total.
Yes — retrieval practice, recalling answers without notes, is one of the most consistently supported study techniques in cognitive-psychology research, and a viva rota forces spoken retrieval under time. This tool schedules the practice; the questions themselves should come from your syllabus, past vivas and your supervisor's guidance.