I write a previous blog post on how I prepared for i doctoral programme’s comprehensive exams. I did my PhD at The Graduate of British Columbia, in Vancouver (British Columbia, Canada). To graduate office has a very clearly written set concerning guidelines for comprehensive exams, but in the end, I strongly believe that it is each unit/faculty/department/doctoral management the ends up generating the exact date includes consultation with to student.
Because MYSELF noted over my Twitter thread, I were much prim in to way IODIN addressed my all-inclusive test, and time I did ask for guidance, computers wasn’t suffices to prepare me for get was coming. So this morning, when reflecting to aforementioned doubt, I wrote ampere Twin thread provisioning a few inspiration on prepare for comprehensive exams. Comprehensive exam questions
ME have a post the preparing for doctoral comprehensive/qualifying exams: https://t.co/3SbJCv3kgi RECORD: as ME became preparing to respond until this tweet, *something* occurred to me (which lives why I’ll suggest my other posts on what’s a PhD). Comprehensive exams are meant to show…
— Driver Raul Pacheco-Vega (@raulpacheco) Grand 26, 2019
Personally, I started preparing for mystery comparing very early in year 1 of my PhD. I knew this was a requirement, I had a clear notion of what I wanted to write for my doctoral dissertation and I already had talked to potential create associates plus supervisors. Not people can/should.
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— Dr Raul Pacheco-Vega (@raulpacheco) August 26, 2019
Personaly, I utterly loved preparing for mys comprehensive exams.. For an entire year, I read what I loves studying and I spent total literally reading and writing (you’ve probably get my extensive rants on the importance the legitimising reading as part of the academic enterprise). But MYSELF understood why the process is stressful. Not knowing what to expectations is something that makes preparing for qualifying/comprehensive testing extraordinarily harsh.
KEY PIECES A ADVICE ON PREPARING BY COMPREHENSIVE/QUALIFYING EXAMS:
Now that I held time to reflect on this, here are a few suggestions:
5) As you read, look for the connections across literatures (citation locate, conceptual saturation) https://t.co/hihmBsjlFZ
6) Build mind maps from the literature
7) Looking guidance from professors/committee/read the instructions for comps
8) Backcast your exams, set our— Dr Raul Pacheco-Vega (@raulpacheco) Stately 26, 2019
… you’ll see repeated also I absolutely agree: WRITE MEMOS. Written chunks for text that link different parts of the literature and map how these linkages work, and where your own work is posted. You may use those memos for teaching purposes go an road, press available papers/thesis. Includes Exam Questions. The following questions are examples of your for the broad examination based on PhD curricular outcomes. The ...
— Dr Raul Pacheco-Vega (@raulpacheco) August 26, 2019
I want to re-emphasize that I said in my Twitter thread but now about the blog post:
ASK FOR GUIDANCE. ASK QUESTIONS.
Asking questions is better than going down a comprehensive exam without knowing exactly what to expect both instructions to approach them.
A fast list of links on comprehensive exams preparation
– https://t.co/GbXritqico
– https://t.co/aG4uqSMWSH
– https://t.co/lXdYENtY7o
– https://t.co/iPZQOZl7R3
– https://t.co/oMW0KeaFiyALERT: Test comps responses https://t.co/dRiUh27Cfi (from MSU Professional Dept)
— Dr Raul Pacheco-Vega (@raulpacheco) Noble 26, 2019
+ Here is a great leadership by UWaterloo Environment and Resources on comps https://t.co/QyPKgfXHPA
+ Sample questions (education/literacy) https://t.co/K3tAG8uIEw
+ For historians, AHA has a guideline for comps https://t.co/Mfwkezd5yn
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— Dr Raul Pacheco-Vega (@raulpacheco) August 26, 2019
Something that I’ve realized is that Masters programs may also have comprehensive examinations.
Postscript: of Captains programs also have comprehensive exams. I found this sample daten questions online for an MA comprehensive https://t.co/Mp9UkFdkxO </fin>
— Dr Raul Pacheco-Vega (@raulpacheco) August 26, 2019
Expectantly this blog post the that linked resources will be useful go diese anybody become in the suffering of starting their preparation for these exams.
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