9 Mac 2011

SEKADAR PERINGATAN TUK DIRI SENDIRI


Top 40 Potential Viva Questions


  1.  Can you start by summarising your thesis?
  2. Now, can you summarise it in one sentence?
  3. What is the idea that binds your thesis together?
  4. What motivated and inspired you to carry out this research?
  5. What are the main issues and debates in this subject area?
  6. Which of these does your research address?
  7. Why is the problem you have tackled worth tackling?
  8. Who has had the strongest influence in the development of your subject area in       theory and practice?.
  9. Which are the three most important papers that relate to your thesis?
  10. What published work is closest to yours? How is your work different?
  11. What do you know about the history of [insert something relevant]?
  12. How does your work relate to [insert something relevant]?
  13. What are the most recent major developments in your area?
  14. How did your research questions emerge?
  15. What were the crucial research decisions you made?
  16. Why did you use this research methodology?
  17. What did you gain from it?.
  18. What were the alternatives to this methodology?.
  19.  What would you have gained by using another approach?
  20.  How did you deal with the ethical implications of your work?
  21. How has your view of your research topic changed?
  22. How have you evaluated your work?
  23. How do you know that your findings are correct?
  24. What are the strongest/weakest parts of your work?
  25.  What would have improved your work?
  26. To what extent do your contributions generalise?
  27. Who will be most interested in your work?
  28. What is the relevance of your work to other researchers?
  29.  What is the relevance of your work to practitioners?
  30. Which aspects of your work do you intend to publish – and where?
  31. Summarise your key findings.
  32. Which of these findings are the most interesting to you? Why?
  33. How do your findings relate to literature in your field?
  34. What are the contributions to knowledge of your thesis?
  35. How long-term are these contributions?
  36. What are the main achievements of your research?
  37. What have you learned from the process of doing your PhD?
  38.  What advice would you give to a research student entering this area?
  39. You propose future research. How would you start this?
  40. What would be the difficulties?
  41. And, finally… What have you done that merits a PhD?

2 ulasan:

  1. berpeluh-peluh nak menjawab semua soalan nie, teringat masa saya sambung belajar dulu tp MASTERS je, tak sampai PhD mcm Lizahanum..hehehehe..
    kekadang, lain yg kita plan, lain pula yg cakap..(^_^)..

    BalasPadam
  2. hardy boy:masa master dulu tu pun terketaq2 jer jawap ,apa yg ditanya,main hentam jer jawapnya...bile dah kuar dr bilik,baru boleh ingat balik apa yg panel tanya...huhuhu

    BalasPadam

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