Have you ever blanked out during a viva? What did you do?
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Yes, during pharmacology viva.
Examiner asked about drugs name and I was unable to recollect it.
So, I told the mechanisms and some related things about it.
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One of my professors said never say you don’t know say you did read it but at this moment you can’t remember
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It is normal that one can get blank during their Viva. But the only solution to such situation is to keep quite when you don’t know anything.
It will help you to avoid awkwardness you can felt during the viva. And calmly proceed ahead with the sentence that " sorry, I don’t have much information about it or I have not studied about this topic"
And then just listen what you are external is saying!
Or alternate option can be answering the related answer to the question which is asked. But yes don’t blunder.
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always but some time i got the advantages because my roll no. is last . the examiner got exhaust and sometime he\she leaves us on good note 
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Not really but yes I use to forget . So in that case you can tell something which can be related but at least try to say something.
I always do but being somewhat carefree helps me answer questions with presence of mind