I m due to have my viva very soon. While I was checking my copy of the thesis I found that my printer ink ran out in 5 pages where what is written is not readable. I printed three copies (which I did not check carefully before submission) and replaced the ink cartridge four times. One of the copies I replaced the ink before it ran out (so 99% its fine) while the other two I waited for the ink to ran out before I replaced it. After which I reprinted starting from the first page that did not look good. I am hoping that it is only my copy which has pages like these but in case the examiners' copies have similar pages what is going to happen do u think?
I am going down and so devastated :-(

Mine has a recent book which I will be reading parts of next week or few days before the viva

Good luck with the preparations now ;-)

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Hello!!
I am really happy for you so we will be having our vivas in close dates!
I am about to finish my thesis and then will start to prepare the generic questions

I got two tips from my supervisor when I met him yesterday:
1- doing a review on the examiners' publications
2- having with me in the viva an up-to-date article in the field to look good in front of the examiners and to show that I am still updated and did not quit researching about the field after submission.

I am having a mock viva two days before the real thing. My supervisor tried to clam me down as I m not having good sleeps these days.

Today bought the viva suit
8-)

I think that's it about me!;-)

So well done for fighting till u reached this stage

I have a hunch u will get it by the end of this week or early next week ;-)

I am really so to hear about ur illiness I hope u recover soon.
I think I got plenty of time too but the thing I m pushing my self to finish this preparations thing which might mean that i may loose some information from here and there because i was rushing myself.
I hope you hear about the viva date this week ;-)

mine is 467 including everything (406 without bibliography and appendices)
Yes I just spotted the same error of urs and others like "ether" which should be "whether"
a difference in numbers like I say "a previous study had 18 blagh blagh" and they say "they had 28 blagh blagh" :-(
I am not being slow as much as being lazy. I only work better under time pressure

Bilbo I hope u have the date very soon
(me on page 94 out of 450) :(
I just heard from y friend that my external was surprised that I exceeded the 80,000 words limit (reaching approx 100,000 words) but he would turn a blind eye on it and will not ask me to delete anything as I've done great effort writing all of it. This gave me a bit of a relief that I will be meeting a very considerate person

Teenie
Many thanks for sharing this useful site I really like the checklist bit.

I know how it feels waiting for the viva date. Mine was appointed two days after my thesis was despatched to the examiners.
As for the thesis summary, actually I feel I know my thesis inside out and even the rereading I mam doing now is just to find the typos and double check the content before I answer the generic questions.

I remember a member of this fourm who had her viva and she had the attitude of I am ready to have my viva tomorrow without preparing for it. Now I feel the same I would do it but to avoid feeling guilty I am doing these preparations. No point of gambling here.

Everyone is telling me that my examiners are very nice especially the external. One of my external's current PhD student is a friend of mine and they both were talking about me. The external said to my friend before reading my thesis "I know......'s supervisor and he told me that this thesis is a good one and if he said that I am sure it is a good one". However, I still feel so nervous and all I am thinking of is the scene of me crying after the viva :( I do not know if this normal or not but it keeps going on in my mind. I do not want to rely on my external general comment about my work as it might have been a compliment to my supervisor and it was before he read the thesis.

Not knowing the unknown freaks me a lot!:-(

I am considering buying this book when I get back to the UK next weekend (being home now).
I am also considering having a mock viva. My sup usually does it one day before the real thing which will not help me a lot now.
One day I heard part of a mock viva for a friend as my office is next door to my sup's office and they were talking loud. But hearing is not like doing it urself.

Thanx Bilbo

ps how's ur preparation going?

Angel
thanks this is what i am doing now.
wish u the best of luck in ur viva


My current problem is that i can't get my used-to-be strong sixth sense to work. I rely heavily on it in exam situations. I always imagine what would happen and it usually goes like what I pictured it to be. BUT now i can't really feel it is going to happen. It is like it will never happen which makes me so hopeless :(

I have this table-figure typo thing but my table looks more like a figure because it has a lot of ticks and X's not like a normal table so this is my justification for this typo :-(

I am too worried when progressing reading my thesis to find more typos which will make me more nervous :-(

Congrats1 well done
good to hear this while i am in the wait
hope mine goes like urs but in less time
i can't think I will be grilled for 4 hours !:-(

yeah that's what i was thinking !

Thanx Bilbo 8-)

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Good luck from all of my heart

Thanx dear
I have been through this. i submitted and did not my examiners till one month and so later and then a few days a viva date was appointed. I am planning exactly what you suggested exactly (up). I want to familiarize myself with the viva generic questions but I feel I should read my thesis first so my answers to the generic questions can be precise !
I donot know yet which one to do first.. rereading or generic questions!:$