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R Aha b’ Yaakov (I think) sent his son to learn for a year and stayed home working the farm. When the son came back, he tested the son and then went back himself, leaving the son to work. Do you think he asked the son whether he followed every word or how many hours he was holding the (non-existent) gemorah? That he could have found out via a shaliach in the first month. No, he was waiting the whole year to see what the son has actually learned.
So, you guys discuss minutiae – minutes, with text or listening, etc. I suggested ^ a middos test, but probably an open ended question “tell me something you learned” is a better one. Some will learn middos, some something else. If a person learned one tremendous idea from the whole maseches, then you can do a siyum. Even if he did by listening 8-min daf at 2x speed while exercising.