I’m not sure what happens if you fail, but it’s important to talk to your advisor & committee in advance to make sure you’ve done enough before trying to defend.
You can defend again. Im sure difference disciplines do it differently, but I think if you get to the point of defending your dissertation you generally are going to finish. Many people never defend, though - that is the real danger. This. Generally, dissertation advisors gatekeep defense. If the professor allows it and you fail, that reflects poorly on the advisor. If I was a committee member, I'd be pissed as a lot of preparation goes into preparing for a defense and a not ready for prime time dissertation is a massive waste of everyone's time. |
Just curious. I don’t know if there are hard and fast percentages out there, but for anybody who has been in a PhD program, how many of your colleagues were successful with their dissertation defense? How many or not? If you fail it, are you permitted a second chance to present? Or is it one and done? What happens with the degree status if you don’t pass? My program had a high fail rate both at our university and compared to similar programs at similar universities. It is also has a high rate of people dropping out. I’m ABD because I dropped out. The same year, a friend transferred (unheard of!) and started over again at another local university. Even with having to retake comps a year later, she was happier. Three of our classmates failed within the next two years. It was a toxic environment. |
Just curious. I don’t know if there are hard and fast percentages out there, but for anybody who has been in a PhD program, how many of your colleagues were successful with their dissertation defense? How many or not? If you fail it, are you permitted a second chance to present? Or is it one and done? What happens with the degree status if you don’t pass? My program had a high fail rate both at our university and compared to similar programs at similar universities. It is also has a high rate of people dropping out. I’m ABD because I dropped out. The same year, a friend transferred (unheard of!) and started over again at another local university. Even with having to retake comps a year later, she was happier. Three of our classmates failed within the next two years. It was a toxic environment. For your colleagues that failed, did they go back to continue work and present again? You can’t claim a PhD on a résumé or call yourself Dr. with ABD, right? |
Its very uncommon in the programs that I'm familiar with. By the time you get to that point, you have your chair -- who is very familiar with your work, and two other people who have read your dissertation and have agreed that you're ready to defend. There will be two other professors added to your team, but you're going into it knowing that the majority of the people on your team believe that you should be there. What's more common is that you will Pass your defense -- but be asked to rewrite a section or address an issue before the team finally signs off on it as officially Passed. |
Just curious. I don’t know if there are hard and fast percentages out there, but for anybody who has been in a PhD program, how many of your colleagues were successful with their dissertation defense? How many or not? If you fail it, are you permitted a second chance to present? Or is it one and done? What happens with the degree status if you don’t pass? My program had a high fail rate both at our university and compared to similar programs at similar universities. It is also has a high rate of people dropping out. I’m ABD because I dropped out. The same year, a friend transferred (unheard of!) and started over again at another local university. Even with having to retake comps a year later, she was happier. Three of our classmates failed within the next two years. It was a toxic environment. For your colleagues that failed, did they go back to continue work and present again? You can’t claim a PhD on a résumé or call yourself Dr. with ABD, right? NO, you cannot "claim a PhD on a resume or call yourself Dr. with an ABD". I'm not clear why this is even a question. You can't claim credentials that you haven't earned. If you're in a field that includes licensing and/or a member of a professional organization with an ethics code, doing so will likely torpedo your career in very wide-reaching ways. |
You can defend again. Im sure difference disciplines do it differently, but I think if you get to the point of defending your dissertation you generally are going to finish. Many people never defend, though - that is the real danger. This. Generally, dissertation advisors gatekeep defense. If the professor allows it and you fail, that reflects poorly on the advisor. If I was a committee member, I'd be pissed as a lot of preparation goes into preparing for a defense and a not ready for prime time dissertation is a massive waste of everyone's time. It's this. Outside referees come in (sometimes from far away) to attend the defense. The defense is not supposed to be a real test. Your advisor should not allow the real defense to be organized unless it's sure you are ready. |
If you are going to fail, your supervisor and committee won't let you defend. On rare occasions where it goes ahead and the person fails, they are usually allowed to defend again or they are told to make major revisions to their thesis. If it goes on for too long people will drop out or 'Masters out' (only an option in some schools). |
I failed comps the first try, but successfully made it through PhD defense later. The culture of our school and program was that you do not defend unless you will pass. If you aren't ready after some time, then they ask you to leave with a Masters. I think of it like a marriage proposal. You don't do it unless you're sure of the outcome. |
My program had a written and oral exam that had to be completed by the second year. Some people were asked to leave with a Masters at that point, or chose to voluntarily depart. No one failed the actual dissertation. |
Where I went to school they would never let you defend unless you were going to pass. It was mostly just presenting your dissertation work and then the committee asked questions about it. Sometimes they made critical comments but you would still pass. |
Just curious. I don’t know if there are hard and fast percentages out there, but for anybody who has been in a PhD program, how many of your colleagues were successful with their dissertation defense? How many or not? If you fail it, are you permitted a second chance to present? Or is it one and done? What happens with the degree status if you don’t pass? My program had a high fail rate both at our university and compared to similar programs at similar universities. It is also has a high rate of people dropping out. I’m ABD because I dropped out. The same year, a friend transferred (unheard of!) and started over again at another local university. Even with having to retake comps a year later, she was happier. Three of our classmates failed within the next two years. It was a toxic environment. For your colleagues that failed, did they go back to continue work and present again? You can’t claim a PhD on a résumé or call yourself Dr. with ABD, right? NO, you cannot "claim a PhD on a resume or call yourself Dr. with an ABD". I'm not clear why this is even a question. You can't claim credentials that you haven't earned. If you're in a field that includes licensing and/or a member of a professional organization with an ethics code, doing so will likely torpedo your career in very wide-reaching ways. Where I went, ABD had a very specific usage. You had to be still at the institution, be in the program you were studying in and still actively working in the PhD program. If you defend and are not passed, then as long as your institution and your mentor still allow you to stay in the program and try to defend again, you can continue to use the ABD. If you leave the program or institution, then you are no longer ABD. Like other PPs, the program at the institution I was at (I was not in the PhD program, but was friends with several who were), the mentors were the ones who decided whether you were allowed to defend. If you were not ready to defend or they didn't think you could pass, they didn't schedule a defense for you. A defense was only scheduled when they knew you were prepared and were likely to pass. At that institution, the pass rate was very high. Essentially those that would fail never defended and they either stayed in the program for years trying to research and improve their dissertation or they left the program. |
In the programs I’m familiar with (hard sciences) you only defended when you had the blessing of your advisor and it was understood it would be to pass. There were a few instances of committee members asking candidates to add something to their thesis, BUT that was usually an off shoot of some ego-driven vendetta between the professors at issue, not any actual problem with the student’s work. |
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Since Australian breaker Rachael "Raygun" Gunn failed to score a single point in any of her Olympic bouts, many have asked how she qualified for the Games.
Fellow breaker and anthropologist Lucas Marie says she won her qualification "fair and square" last year, but African American man Malik Dixon has criticised the Olympic body for letting her in.
Breaking will not be an event at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games — a decision made before Raygun's performance.
The 2024 Paris Olympics marked breaking's debut as a sport at the global event, with 36-year-old lecturer and breaker Rachael "Raygun" Gunn representing Australia for the first time.
Having failed to win a single point in any of her Olympic bouts, Raygun quickly became a viral sensation.
The question on many people's minds now is: How did she even qualify?
Lucas Marie is a breaker who has competed, performed, taught and judged breaking competitions over the past 25 years. He's also an anthropologist who recently co-authored an article with Gunn.
He says the answer to that question is simple.
"There was an Oceania qualifier in which any B-boy or B-girl from Australia [or] New Zealand could enter, and that was in Sydney in October 2023," he told ABC News.
"And leading up to that, there were a lot of other events in which breakers were competing.
"She won those battles fair and square and won the qualification in Sydney.
"And it wasn't really a surprise to anyone.
"She's been fairly consistent, winning or coming second or third at a lot of breaking events in Australia for the last five to 10 years."
Marie said there was nothing out of the ordinary about Raygun's performance.
"It's not like gymnastics where there's this kind of agreed-upon standard," he said.
"It's always had a rawness to it. It's always had an improvisational kind of quality. And I think looking different and trying different stuff has always been celebrated.
"And I think Raygun, in a way, was just expressing a core kind of hip hop trait in a way a lot of breakers do."
He described her efforts as bold.
"I thought — and this is how I judge a lot of breaking events — I thought, 'Oh, she's making some really interesting choices to mimic Australian animals.' And you can kind of see the choices that she's making in the moment."
Team Australia chef de mission Anna Meares insisted after Raygun's performance that she was the best breaker the country had to offer. But is this true?
"It's sometimes just who's performing better on the day," Marie said.
"And at the qualification event in which she won, and other events in which she's won, she performed better on that day and won the ticket.
"That doesn't mean she's the best. It doesn't really work like that.
"I think she's a great breaker. She won the qualification. She's won other events in the past, and she was a good representative for Australia at that competition."
Asked whether there were B-girls in Perth, regional Victoria or rural Brisbane who might have qualified but could not afford to travel to Sydney for the tryouts, Marie agreed this was possible.
"Of course, there's breakers all over the country that maybe should have been in that event, but they weren't."
Breaking will not carry over to the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, a decision made before Raygun's battle.
Marie described this as sad.
"Maybe, based on the ratings, they'll reassess that and maybe allocate some medals to breaking," he said.
"I really hope that's the case, and I hope that for other breakers who want to compete in it as a dance sport."
Marie said that at the end of the day people should remember they were dealing with a human.
"As a friend of Rachael's, there's a human being who's getting a lot of negative attention," he said.
"I think people kind of miss that sometimes and forget the human aspect of all this."
Malik Dixon is an African American who has been living in Australia for more than a decade and is a Sydney University graduate.
He said Raygun made a total "mockery" out of breaking at the Olympics.
"She was dressed like a member of the cricket team or an Australian PE teacher, and from that point it just seemed like satire," Mr Dixon told ABC News.
"It just looked like somebody who was toying with the culture and didn't know how culturally significant it was being the first time in the Olympics and just how important it was to people who really cherish hip hop and one of the elements of hip hop, which is breakdancing.
"It made me think, was Borat her breakdancing coach?"
Mr Dixon said too many people felt entitled to African American culture.
"The African American space has been one where we've shared our community so much and without any restraints, any barriers, roadblocks, obstacles, any gatekeepers, that essentially what should have been African American cultural capital is just shared, which is cool," he said.
"We like to share, right?
"We shared 400 years of free labour.
"To see Rachael in her attempt to be a part of the culture just be grossly underwhelming made it seem like she didn't take it seriously."
Mr Dixon criticised the body that qualified Raygun, saying she devalued breaking with her performance.
"Whatever governing body nominated her as Australia's entrant into the Olympics either did not understand the assignment or didn't really believe in the integrity or significance of breakdancing, because if they did they would just say, rather than disrespect the culture, we're just not ready to send an applicant this year."
He said Raygun was extremely audacious and not self-aware.
"You've got to know your role, know your position, know your limitation," he said.
"And I think that part of privilege is saying that there are no limits to what I can do.
"Part of privilege is having the authority to say that there are no limits and there are no requirements, there are no prerequisites to what I can do."
Raygun's degrees do not hold much water with Mr Dixon.
"Due to consumerism, this Foundational Black American product, which is hip hop, is global," he said.
"And even people who have no connection to any African Americans or any local or regional things that come out in these songs, they have become a part of the whole experience now.
"If I came in and said that I was an authority on Greek music and I was going against the grain of what the mainstream Greek musicians thought, or the school of thought, and I've said that I was the authority, people would check me on that.
"If I had a PhD in sprinting, does that qualify me to go against Noah Lyles? No, it doesn't."
He also doubts Raygun was the best breaker Australia had to offer.
"[There's] got to be somebody out here that's better than that! The kangaroo! The sprinkler! She did the sprinkler out there, man!" he said.
Should we lighten up? Mr Dixon does not believe so.
"Larrikinism is used as a get-out-of-jail-free card and to escape responsibility of how words or actions impact a hurt person," he said.
"But when the majority culture is offended, there's no playing around.
"This is a part of my culture, and I don't think Australians are in a place to tell me how I should feel about breakdancing being mocked on an international stage.
"People who don't have any or limited access to black people or hip hop culture now may see Rachael and her buffoonery as a representation of hip hop and black culture.
"People who were already side-eyeing breakdancing as an Olympic sport, Rachael Gunn has put the nail in that coffin.
"This might be the most viral clip of the whole Olympics. From a comedy standpoint, she's got it, but from an Olympics perspective, its regressive."
'i absolutely love her courage': meares defends raygun after wave of online ridicule for paris performance.
Australian Olympic breakdancer Rachael Gunn said the hate she received over her routines at the Paris Games is “devastating.”
The 36-year-old B-girl, who performs as Raygun, responded to the intense and relentless online criticism in a short video message posted Thursday on Instagram.
She began by thanking her supporters.
“I really appreciate the positivity and I’m glad I was able to bring some joy into your lives,” she said. “That's what I’d hoped.”
Gunn said she didn’t realize that would also “open the door to so much hate, which has frankly been pretty devastating.”
Social media memes and skits re-creating her dance exploded on the internet after clips of her routine went viral. One move in particular — where Gunn holds her arms close to her body and kicks one leg in the air as she leans back — was quickly dubbed the “kangaroo” in reference to her native country.
Gunn said in her post on Thursday that she “had fun” with her routine, but took it very seriously.
“I worked my butt off preparing for the Olympics and I gave my all, truly. I’m honored to have been a part of the Australian Olympic team and part of breaking’s Olympic debut,” she said.
Gunn didn’t specifically address rumors surrounding her performance and instead referred critics who questioned how she made the team to statements the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) and others released in her defense.
Early Thursday, AOC Chief Executive Officer Matt Carroll said in a statement that Gunn was selected for the team “through a transparent and independent qualification event and nomination process.”
He also slammed a Change.org petition that accused Gunn of “manipulating the selection process to her own advantage.” The petition demanded an apology from Gunn and Paris Chef de Mission Anna Meares. The petition has more than 56,000 signatures.
“It is disgraceful that these falsehoods concocted by an anonymous person can be published in this way. It amounts to bullying and harassment and is defamatory. We are demanding that it be removed from the site immediately,” Carroll said, adding that the petition has no factual basis.
The Australian Breaking Organization said in a statement Tuesday that the qualification process was conducted over two days and adhered to the World DanceSport Federation regulations, which align with the International Olympic Committee’s standards.
Gunn and fellow Aussie breaker Jeff Dunne were the top performers, the organization said.
“We condemn the global online harassment and bullying of Raygun. The pressure to perform on the Olympic stage is immense, especially against the opponents in her particular group. We stand in solidarity with Raygun,” the organization said.
Martin Gilian, the head judge of the Olympic breaking competition, said Gunn “did her best” but “her level was maybe not as high as the other competitors.”
“Good on her for having a go and wearing a trackie while you’re doing it,” Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said in a recent radio interview. “I mean, how Australian is that?”
The World DanceSport Federation, the international governing body for breaking, said it had offered Gunn mental health support.
Gunn went on to address social media posts mocking her for getting zero points from the Olympic judges.
“Bit of a fun fact for you: There are actually no points in breaking,” she said, urging people to check the Olympics’ website to see how the judges thought she compared to the other competitors.
The Olympic website, however, says that judges score 1-on-1 battles on creativity, musicality, personality, technique, performativity and variety. The judges then submit their votes after each round and the breaker with the highest points is declared the winner.
Gunn ended her post by asking for privacy for her family and the breaking community.
“Everyone has been through a lot as a result of this,” she said, adding that she will answer questions once she returns from some “preplanned downtime” in Europe.
Minyvonne Burke is a senior breaking news reporter for NBC News.
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Rachael Gunn, known as B-girl Raygun, displayed some … unique moves as she competed in a field with breakers half her age. The judges and the internet were underwhelmed.
By Dodai Stewart and Talya Minsberg
Reporting from Paris
Breaking made its debut as an Olympic sport Friday, and among the competitors was Dr. Rachael Gunn, also known as B-girl Raygun, a 36-year-old professor from Sydney, Australia, who stood out in just about every way.
By day, her research interests include “dance, gender politics, and the dynamics between theoretical and practical methodologies.” But on the world’s stage in Paris, wearing green track pants and a green polo shirt instead of the street-style outfits of her much younger fellow breakers, she competed against the 21-year-old Logan Edra of the United States, known as Logistx.
During the round robin, as Raygun and Logistx faced off, Raygun laid on her side, reached for her toes, spun around, and threw in a kangaroo hop — a nod to her homeland. She performed a move that looked something like swimming and another that could best be described as duckwalking. The high-speed back and head spins that other breakers would demonstrate were mostly absent.
The crowd cheered Raygun politely. The judges weren’t as kind. All nine voted for Logistx in both rounds of the competition; Logistx won, 18-0.
Online, Raygun’s performance quickly became a sensation, not necessarily in a flattering way.
“The more I watch the videos of Raygun, the Aussie breaker, the more I get annoyed,” one viewer posted on X, formerly known as Twitter. “There’s 27.7 million Australians in the world and that’s who they send to the Olympics for this inaugural event??? C’mon now!”
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I am planning to submit my thesis next month. I have 4 published SCI-indexed journals (Elsevier, Springer, IEEE transaction, World Scientific) and 2 more journals communicated (all first authors). My thesis is on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. The thesis will be sent to two external examiners about whom I will not know (Institute policy). I am fearing what will happen if my thesis somehow gets rejected (I do not know why I am so scared right now).
Should I be worried that my thesis may get rejected?
Also, what happens when the thesis gets major revision?
Do I have to do the corrections and send the thesis again?
When a reviewer is checking a thesis, usually what does he want in it?
Does he read the entire thesis line by line?
Kindly share any incident of thesis rejections if you know of any, why it was rejected and how the person finally got his degree.
This very much depends on which system you are in. I can answer from the point of view of the UK system.
It is very un likely your thesis will be outright rejected.
It is very likely you will be asked to make some corrections.
Yes, you will have to make the corrections and send the thesis again.
Requirements for a thesis are generally set out by the university. They normally specify you must have made a "novel contribution to the field" and the work is, in principle, of publication quality. Or something similar.
Yes, a good examiner will read the thesis line by line.
There are five possible outcomes from the examination of a thesis.
Almost all students are given minor or major corrections - I'd say 90% fall into these categories. Slightly more in minor corrections probably. Maybe 8% get no corrections, and perhaps 1.5% are asked to resubmit. Very, very few fail outright.
Four published journal articles and two under review, that sounds impressive to me! It's natural to fear your thesis will get rejected, it's natural to be scared: Search this forum for impostor syndrome
Also, what happens when the thesis gets major revision? Do I have to do the corrections and send the thesis again?
That'll likely depend on your institute and country. I suspect you'll need to make corrections in a timely fashion, perhaps your examiners will need to check they are satisfied.
A novel (valid) contribution to your field (just like a journal article), mastery of the material, and a broad understand of your domain.
That depends on the examiner.
The other answers have generally good advice, to address a specific question you had:
I only know of one thesis that was completely rejected. In this case:
From what you've posted, this is far from your situation. So, while occasion anxiety is understandable, it is probably unwarranted in your case.
I also know of one case where someone's PhD was found to highly overlap with another PhD in another area with completely different terminology. (Math vs CS) That was awful for everyone involved - in that case they were given more time by the committee to come back and address it, and eventually they graduated.
It is possible but unlikely that your thesis is rejected.
Although probably technically illegal, it is also probable that any sensible examiner would quietly contact your supervisor before submitting a report if there was a major problem with the thesis, if only to make sure there was no major misunderstanding and avoid embarrassment for the student but also for those like the thesis director who allowed the thesis to go forward. My experience is that examiners will prefer to hold their noses and accept a marginal or bad thesis rather than cause trouble and reject the submission.
The most likely outcome is that you will be asked to make minor revisions, and then your school will have some procedure to handle this time-wise. Usually the examiners do not need to see the thesis again when resubmitted after minor corrections.
Depending on how closely the thesis is examined, it may be accepted as is, but this very rare in my experience, and not necessarily desirable and one wonders how closely the examiner did his/her job. You want the examiner to engage with and improve the outcome to raise the visibility of the results.
In 35 or so years of experience, I know for certain of only three cases where a thesis was rejected: in two instances a document was submitted over the objection of the thesis director; in the third instance a real error was found in the thesis. Since this is exceptionally rare, you tend to hear about such instances when they happen. Thankfully, I was not involved directly in any of the situations.
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Peteris. 8,281 30 40. This answer could be seen as slightly misleading. OP is in a situation where they have been warned by the supervisor that they could fail the PhD if they submit with the current results. In that situation, the chances of actually failing the PhD are much higher than in the average case.
No one prepared me for the worst possible outcome of a dissertation defense: Failure. Yet, after waiting outside in the hallway for over 90 minutes, I was certain of it.
The majority of failed Ph.D. dissertations are sloppily presented. They contain typos, grammatical mistakes, referencing errors and inconsistencies in presentation. Looking at some committee reports randomly, I note the following comments: "The thesis is poorly written.". "That previous section is long, badly written and lacks structure.".
Having a PhD student fail a defense is extremely embarrassing and can end the career of a professor. Having a master student fail a defense isn't considered such a big deal. Share. Improve this answer. Follow answered Mar 14, 2015 at 15:25. pehrs pehrs. 455 2 2 silver ...
No one prepared me for the worst possible outcome of a dissertation defense: Failure. Yet, after waiting outside in the hallway for over 90 minutes, I was certain of it. My advisor summoned me back into the room with a wave of the arm as he shook his head and glibly said, "You're going to have to do it again.".
There are three possible evaluation decisions for the doctoral defense. All decisions—with the exception of "fail"—must be unanimous. Pass "Pass" requires that both the defense and the document (dissertation or treatise) are acceptable. In some cases, the committee may require revisions, which will be checked by the entire committee ...
The first thing you should know is that your defense has already begun. It started the minute you began working on your dissertation— maybe even in some of the classes you took beforehand that helped you formulate your ideas. This, according to Dr. Celeste Atkins, is why it's so important to identify a good mentor early in graduate school.
Getting a Ph.D. is a once-in-a-lifetime event, so enjoy it and take satisfaction in what you've accomplished. Patricia Gosling and Bart Noordam are the authors of Mastering Your Ph.D.: Survival and Success in the Doctoral Years and Beyond ( Springer, 2006 ). Gosling is a senior medical writer at Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics in Germany and ...
From Nerves to Triumph: Your Personal Guide to Dissertation Defense. Jennifer Harrison. August 26, 2023. Aberystwyth University. Dissertation Defence/ Viva, Mental Health, Thesis and Dissertation, Thesis Tips, Wellbeing. Join Dr. Jen Harrison on a compelling voyage as she delves into the world of defending a dissertation/thesis.
Here are a few tips on how to prepare for your thesis defense: 1. Anticipate questions and prepare for them. You can absolutely prepare for most of the questions you will be asked. Read through your thesis and while you're reading it, create a list of possible questions.
Secondly, you often also need a dean's approval for moving on towards an actual defense. There are many theses which do not make it through these safeguard filters on their first attempt, but if the system works, you almost never see an officially failed defense/rejected thesis. Hence the numbers on the actual "failure rate" do not really exist.
On this page you will find videos, tools, and information about what the PhD thesis defence is, timelines for the PhD thesis defence, and tips for a successful PhD thesis defence. All PhD students should also ensure that they read the PhD thesis examination regulations and review the thesis preparation guidelines prior to their oral defence.
Once they reach 2 failures, they are kicked out of the program. If you fail your oral defense, that's one failure. Typically students are given a list of revisions, elements to fix/redo, etc. They can then take it again the next semester. If you fail it twice, you are out.
To summarise, based on the analysis of 26,076 PhD candidates at 14 universities between 2006 and 2017, the PhD pass rate in the UK is 80.5%. Of the 19.5% of students who fail, 3.3% is attributed to students failing their viva and the remaining 16.2% is attributed to students leaving their programme early. The above statistics indicate that ...
1. Start Your Preparations Early. Thesis defense is not a 3 or 6 months' exercise. Don't wait until you have completed all your research objectives. Start your preparation well in advance, and make sure you know all the intricacies of your thesis and reasons to all the research experiments you conducted. 2.
Own up to things you could have done differently. Understand that a failed Ph.D. is not only a personal failure but also a lab/department failure. This may come over a weekend getaway, or over times. The reasons will likely change after some time/experience where you can get some perspective. Bottom line, failure happens.
A PhD is a research project, not a product. Ultimately, you (and your committee) should not evaluate your results based on whether they ended up being useful, but based on whether you had a reasonable thesis and a thorough scientific study of this thesis. That is, if you proposed a novel approach, collected reasonable data, and thoroughly ...
No one I know has failed, but I know a couple of people who had some rough situations. One PhD candidate had her thesis defense adjourned. I'm not too sure of the details since it was before I joined the lab, but I think she just seized up and said "I can't do this right now" or something, so she had to redo the defense at a later date.
A chair is appointed for each PhD oral defense to monitor and promote fairness and rigor in the conduct of the defense. ... which will be returned to you usually within a few days before or after the defense. You can take up to one semester following the defense to address any comments, during which you can remain a full-time student. ...
Generally, dissertation advisors gatekeep defense. If the professor allows it and you fail, that reflects poorly on the advisor. If I was a committee member, I'd be pissed as a lot of preparation goes into preparing for a defense and a not ready for prime time dissertation is a massive waste of everyone's time. report. 02/17/2021 08:20.
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Where I did my PhD it was even further to the side you describe. Before the defense one gets an email with a formal letter attached stating that the thesis has been approved (i.e. stating that the work is worthy of a PhD). Essentially the only way to fail at the defense is if it turns out you did not do the work yourself. -
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16. The following are some reasons that come to mind that might justify a failure in the viva: For the thesis: evidence of academic malpractice (plagiarism, etc.) fundamental methodological flaws, such as a poorly chosen method or a misapplied method that calls into question the scientific validity of the thesis.
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Yes, a good examiner will read the thesis line by line. There are five possible outcomes from the examination of a thesis. Accepted without corrections. Minor corrections - generally textual changes only - 3 month time limit. Major corrections - might involve some reanalysis, but no new experiments - 6 month time limit.