Why do examiners call supervisors during viva?

G

When my examiners were about to announce their decision on my viva, they called for supervisor. The external thought that my supervisor might think I must have got lost somewhere on the campus. I don't know what she meant here. Nevertheless, she told the final decision which R & R in front of him. Do you think he must have felt embarrassed? But it had two supervisors and the other one had left the uni. At the same time, I suspect my internal examiner who is very good friends with this supervisor had already hinted him about the outcome because when my supervisors took meet out for lunch an hour before the viva, I saw them chatting together in his office. I don't know what all this means. I think the external seemed to be blaming my supervisor a bit but I am not sure, the supervisor too was noting all the corrections the examiners were rambling. Do you think that all this reflects badly on my supervisor and look less of a scholar than the examiners?
If the examiners wanted to fail me, that was their time because there is no point giving me more problem after resubmission although I doubt the supervisors will be that forthcoming to read my drafts even though they have expressed their perfunctory yes.

C

I think you might be looking too deeply into the situation. It may have been they just wanted your supervisor there to support you or something equally as innocent. Of course I don't know your supervisors or examiners so you may be right, but it's probably best to ignore it all and concentrate on your corrections. Good luck =)

M

Caro is right. I think that you are going through the phase of 'WHY' and 'WHY ME', like I did, 3 years ago.

It's only natural. Then, our mind tries to find reasons, excuses, we blame others, we blame ourselves, we blame everything, etc...

It took me about 8 months to get better after receiving the R&R.

My supervisor was not even on campus when I had my viva. I received an email from her 3 days later, saying to me that everything is going to be all right if I do the corrections as requested.

She is truly wonderful. She spent ages reading my thesis, before and after the R&R. These things happen.

B

I've been on a training course for new PhD supervisors recently, and apparently calling the supervisor(s) in to hear the result with the candidate is considered good practice. The idea is to ensure that the candidate has instant pastoral support if the result isn't what they hoped for, and to try to make sure the message regarding the corrections is heard by someone who is less emotionally invested (which is probably why your supervisor was writing it all down). As quite a lot of posts here recently show, candidates tend to feel like revisions are a catastrophe, so someone else hearing it and being able to point out that it's nothing like as bad as all that, is useful. So all it means is that your supervisor and examiners are up-to-date in viva good practice.

E

In fact I don't think supervisor's even care :/ Your concern is heartfelt and most of the supervisors are too professional ( they are driven with logic and less emotions). So there is no point overrating this aspect..Take a chill pill :)

36272