PhD Comprehensive Viva

Many students seek to get help for PhD comprehensive viva the moment they submit their theses to the university. But why immediately? Perhaps, because students have become so obsessed with their PhD that they do not want to lag behind due to lack of preparation or any sort of fault when they are so close to their PhD degrees. Viva defense passes the final judgment regarding the student’s candidature and involves both internal and external examiners. PhD Viva defense can be perfectly defined as ‘an oral examination, typically for an academic qualification’, derived from the Latin: ‘with the living voice’ (Ask Oxford 2006)

In order to provide you the entire information and help for comprehensive viva, here are some frequently asked questions:

• When does viva take place?

  Your PhD viva defense usually scheduled after 9-10 weeks after the successful submission of thesis. Meantime, the student is given the time to prepare for his defense and the examining committee gets the time to go through the student’s thesis in depth.

• Who takes oral examination?

  The examination committee comprises of both external and internal examiner who have reviewed your thesis, an internal coordinator to make sure that all rules and regulations of university are being followed. Supervisor is also present on student’s demand.

• How much time does viva defense take?

  There are no specific time limits, however most of the viva defenses usually take two hours. Some viva defense take less time, and some more; it depends upon the discussion of student’s research and thesis.

• What is expected from student during comprehensive viva?

  Examination committee expects the PhD student to:

  • Have a deep understanding of his research and thesis
  • Be able to answer each question that has been put up from thesis
  • Convince them that the thesis is entirely written by him
  • Justify that no plagiarism is involved in the research work done
  • Demonstrate himself as a potential researcher
• How can one prepare for PhD viva?

  You must begin preparing well as soon as you submit your thesis. Read your thesis critically before your viva and find out the ambiguous statements, arguments (if any) and think how can you explain them well if asked by the examiners. Practice summarizing and highlighting the strong points of your thesis in brief. You can also seek help for comprehensive viva from our expert consultants who will guide you on how you can crack the viva.

• How can you provide help for PhD comprehensive viva?

  We have a team of expert consultants who have experience of many years working as internal and external examiners in PhD defenses. Till now, they have assisted many students in getting ready to face the ultimate oral defense. Here is how we provide help for comprehensive viva:

  • We will find out the loopholes in your thesis which can be asked by the examiners
  • Discuss the literature in detail that you have referred in your thesis
  • Counsel you on how to present your thesis and handle the difficult situations during viva
  • Organize a mock viva to demonstrate the scenario of viva defense
• How can one contact you for more information?

  Interested students can drop us a query at info@phdchennai.com and one of our representatives will get back to you in 4 hours.