I have a strategy to deal with some accusatorial questions that can't be answered because they touch your thesis's theme very vaguely or approach it incorrectly. You can just politely point out that it wasn't your sphere of research, so you didn't approach that theme as much as you could. And of course, thank them for their question and promise to research it later (even if you'll never do that). That always worked for me, and professors were quite pleased with that. Thank you so much for this video! That was really helpful to see the week before my own thesis defense!
The questions are: 1. Can you summarize your key findings in just a few sentences? 2. Why did you undertake this research? 3. Who are the main researchers in this area? 4. What are the main ongoing debates or issues? 5. Why is your research in this area important? 6. Who will be interested in your research? 7. What do you recommend based on your findings? 8. What are the implications of what you have found to society in general? 9. What are the most important papers related to your own research and how is yours different? 10. What other developments have been made in your field recently? 11. Why did you select the research methodology that you used? 12. In hindsight should you have used a different methodology? 13. Would you have discovered anything else if you had used a different approach? 14. What are the ethical implications of your work and how should they be dealt with? 15. How do you know that what you have found is right? 16. What is the weakest part of your work? 17. What would you suggest as future research and why? 18. If you could start over what would you have done differently? 19. What advice would you give to yourself if you could go back to the start of your research? 20. Do you intend to publish any of your research? If so, where? 21. In a single sentence please summarize your paper. 22. What is the singular idea on which your paper is based? 23. Why is the issue that you have chosen worthy of your thesis? 24. Cite the two most important sources for your work 25. How did you formulate your research questions? 26. Why did you choose this particular research methodology over others that were available? 27. What advice would you give to anyone undertaking a similar thesis? 28. What value will your research bring to others in your field? 29. Did you encounter any ethical issues during the course of your research and if so how did you get over this? 30. Do you intend to publish your work? If so, where? 31. What is the importance of your study or how will it contribute or add up to the existing body of knowledge? 32. You may be asked to summarize your key findings of the research. 33. What type of background research have you done for the study? 34. What are the limitations you have faced while writing? 35. Why did you choose this particular method or sample for the study? 36. What will you include if you are told to add something extra to the study? 37. What are the recommendations of your study? 38. Who formed your sample and why you selected this particular age group? 39. What was your hypothesis and how you framed it? 40. If given a chance, would you like to do something different with your work? 41. What are the limitations you faced while dealing with your samples? 42. How did you relate your study to the existing theories? 43. What is the future scope of this study? 44. What do you plan to do with your work after you have completed your degree? 45. What are the research variables you used? 46. Do you have any questions to be asked? 47. Did you evaluate your work? 48. How would you improve your work? 49. In few sentences, can you tell us what your study is all about? 50. What is your motivation for this study? 51. How will this study contribute to the body of knowledge? 52. What is the significance of the study? 53. Did your study bridge any significant gaps? 54. What limitations did you encounter? 55. What are your findings? 56. What Sampling Technique did you employ? 57. Why did you choose this method? 58. Based on your findings what are your recommendations? 59. Based on your findings what areas will you suggest for future research? 60. How can your research study be put into practice? 61. How would you summarize your study to a practitioner in a few sentences? 62. What would you change if you were to conduct the study again? 63. What is your measurement Instrument? 64. What are your research variables? 65. What are your research questions? 66. What do you plan to do with your research project after Graduation? 67. What source of data was employed for the study? 68. What theories or theoretical framework is your study based on? 69. How would you relate your findings to existing theories on the study? 70. What recommendations do you have for future research? 71. What are the most original (or value-added) parts of your thesis? 72. Which propositions or findings would you say are distinctively your own? 73. How do you think your work takes forward or develops the literature in this field? 74. What are the 'bottom line' conclusions of your research? How innovative or valuable are they? What does your work tell us that we did not know before? 75. Can you explain how you came to choose this topic for your study? 76. What was it that first interested you about it? 77. If you were to write your thesis again, would you choose this topic again? Why or why not? 78. How did the research focus change over time? 79. Why have you defined the final topic in the way you did? 80. What were some of the difficulties you encountered and how did they influence how the topic was framed? 81. How did you determine the scope of your study? 82. What main problems or issues did you have in deciding what was in-scope and out-of-scope? 83. What are the core methods used in this thesis? 84. Why did you choose this approach? 85. In an ideal world, are there different techniques or other forms of data and evidence that you would prefer to use? 86. Why did you think a convenience sample was good enough for this study? 87. How could you be sure that this sample represented the population at large? 88. How did you determine your sample size? 89. What are the main sources or kinds of evidence? 90. If you have the opportunity now to reformulate your research question, what adjustment would you make? 91. Are your data strong enough in terms of their quantity and quality to sustain the conclusions that you draw? 92. Do the data or information you consider appropriately measure or relate to the theoretical concepts, or underlying social or physical phenomena, that you are interested in? 93. How do your findings fit with or contradict the rest of the literature in this field? 94. How do you explain the differences of findings, or estimation, or interpretation between your work and that of other authors? 95. If you were to perform this study again, do you think you would find the same results? 96. What are the main implications or lessons of your research for the future development of work in this specific sub-field? 97. Are there any wider implications for other parts of the discipline? 98. Do you have 'next step' or follow-on research projects in mind? 99. Throughout the process of conducting your research, what was the biggest lesson you learned? 100. Why does your thesis merit a bachelor's/master's / PhD degree?
This video, along with your 10 tips for success and 10 mistakes to avoid, have been absolutely fantastic as I prepare to defend in 2weeks. I'm having crazy pre-defense jitters, and I didn't know who to turn to for help (fairly unresponsive supervisor makes me feel like a graduate orphan). I'm so incredibly thankful for informative, and supportive videos like these. THANK YOU for taking the time to create these resources!
@@bh5074 I'm so sorry to hear that. It's a shame you don't have the support system that you deserve. Best of luck to you! I ended up acing my defense, and honestly I think it's partly from good resources like these that I was able to have a good grasp of what to expect and be prepared. Hopefully it goes smoothly for you as well! You got this!
Defense is tomorrow. I definitely paused a few times to mentally go over answers to some of the stranger questions in this list of 100. Thank you for this! It’s been so helpful in making me feel less anxious and more prepared!
Thank you so much. This is super useful. My project defense for my bachelors degree is in less than three months. I’m super nervous but I hope it goes well
Your videos are so helpful! Thank you for that. In less than a week i have me phd defense! Please allow me a question, i found interesting and tricky the question about the problematic issue in a study. How could a candidate answer in such a question?
Thanks! Well, that depends. It is bit of a subjective, judgement call in terms of how one might respond. Personally, if it is a legitimate criticism, I might admit to the potential weakness or issue; and that this would be taken into account in my future research; if it feels right, I might also briefly highlight the practical constraints or circumstances that led to this weakness or issue. Just be calm, be professional, don't be provoked. Wish you success next week. 👍🏼
I have the problem that my supervisor is very good at the content since she is researching a lot on it, with the downsides that I cannot compete on definitions level, and lacks a lot in helping with structure and ideas for improving the overall presentation of the paper. She also doesn't know much about DA and CDA which for a PhD teacher with more than 3 years in the field is a shame. Without DA my thesis doesn't stand out, so I'm not sure what should I do at this point, if to keep her or to change last minute 2 months before sending in. Keeping her would be a double-edged sword and instead of getting approval internally I may have 2 teachers "against" me including the external. Kinda odd situation. Usually I found myself luckier and better with teachers that knew 0 of my content but helped me with the structure, wished it was still the case. Wish me luck.
Tomorrow we are defending our thesis,, i hope i see this video earlier,,but i believe we will go through our Thesis defense successfully, i believe and receive it JESUS name
@@makemusiceasy1 I wanted to update my comment but I lost it lol.. it went very well!! even though I was very nervous I tried to look confident, the committee gave positive feedback. I tried to answer all the questions and the ones I didn't know I still answered for the best I could and it went well. Thanks for asking!!!
@@ayasera_9501 great! Happy to hear that! I also finished successfully two days ago. Now we are waiting for the graduation! Congratulations! 🥳 hope you can find a nice opportunities in your future life. Good luck
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Mine is in an hour and It is fucking now that I discovered this video 😭😭
I have a strategy to deal with some accusatorial questions that can't be answered because they touch your thesis's theme very vaguely or approach it incorrectly. You can just politely point out that it wasn't your sphere of research, so you didn't approach that theme as much as you could. And of course, thank them for their question and promise to research it later (even if you'll never do that). That always worked for me, and professors were quite pleased with that.
Thank you so much for this video! That was really helpful to see the week before my own thesis defense!
👍🏼 Thanks for sharing your approach! 😋
The questions are:
1. Can you summarize your key findings in just a few sentences?
2. Why did you undertake this research?
3. Who are the main researchers in this area?
4. What are the main ongoing debates or issues?
5. Why is your research in this area important?
6. Who will be interested in your research?
7. What do you recommend based on your findings?
8. What are the implications of what you have found to society in general?
9. What are the most important papers related to your own research and how is yours different? 10. What other developments have been made in your field recently?
11. Why did you select the research methodology that you used?
12. In hindsight should you have used a different methodology?
13. Would you have discovered anything else if you had used a different approach?
14. What are the ethical implications of your work and how should they be dealt with?
15. How do you know that what you have found is right?
16. What is the weakest part of your work?
17. What would you suggest as future research and why?
18. If you could start over what would you have done differently?
19. What advice would you give to yourself if you could go back to the start of your research?
20. Do you intend to publish any of your research? If so, where?
21. In a single sentence please summarize your paper.
22. What is the singular idea on which your paper is based?
23. Why is the issue that you have chosen worthy of your thesis?
24. Cite the two most important sources for your work
25. How did you formulate your research questions?
26. Why did you choose this particular research methodology over others that were available?
27. What advice would you give to anyone undertaking a similar thesis?
28. What value will your research bring to others in your field?
29. Did you encounter any ethical issues during the course of your research and if so how did you get over this?
30. Do you intend to publish your work? If so, where?
31. What is the importance of your study or how will it contribute or add up to the existing body of knowledge?
32. You may be asked to summarize your key findings of the research.
33. What type of background research have you done for the study?
34. What are the limitations you have faced while writing?
35. Why did you choose this particular method or sample for the study?
36. What will you include if you are told to add something extra to the study?
37. What are the recommendations of your study?
38. Who formed your sample and why you selected this particular age group?
39. What was your hypothesis and how you framed it?
40. If given a chance, would you like to do something different with your work?
41. What are the limitations you faced while dealing with your samples?
42. How did you relate your study to the existing theories?
43. What is the future scope of this study?
44. What do you plan to do with your work after you have completed your degree?
45. What are the research variables you used?
46. Do you have any questions to be asked?
47. Did you evaluate your work?
48. How would you improve your work?
49. In few sentences, can you tell us what your study is all about?
50. What is your motivation for this study?
51. How will this study contribute to the body of knowledge?
52. What is the significance of the study?
53. Did your study bridge any significant gaps?
54. What limitations did you encounter? 55. What are your findings?
56. What Sampling Technique did you employ?
57. Why did you choose this method?
58. Based on your findings what are your recommendations?
59. Based on your findings what areas will you suggest for future research?
60. How can your research study be put into practice?
61. How would you summarize your study to a practitioner in a few sentences?
62. What would you change if you were to conduct the study again?
63. What is your measurement Instrument?
64. What are your research variables?
65. What are your research questions?
66. What do you plan to do with your research project after Graduation?
67. What source of data was employed for the study?
68. What theories or theoretical framework is your study based on?
69. How would you relate your findings to existing theories on the study?
70. What recommendations do you have for future research?
71. What are the most original (or value-added) parts of your thesis?
72. Which propositions or findings would you say are distinctively your own?
73. How do you think your work takes forward or develops the literature in this field?
74. What are the 'bottom line' conclusions of your research? How innovative or valuable
are they? What does your work tell us that we did not know before?
75. Can you explain how you came to choose this topic for your study?
76. What was it that first interested you about it?
77. If you were to write your thesis again, would you choose this topic again? Why or why not?
78. How did the research focus change over time?
79. Why have you defined the final topic in the way you did?
80. What were some of the difficulties you encountered and how did they influence how the topic was framed?
81. How did you determine the scope of your study?
82. What main problems or issues did you have in deciding what was in-scope and out-of-scope?
83. What are the core methods used in this thesis?
84. Why did you choose this approach?
85. In an ideal world, are there different techniques or other forms of data and evidence that you would prefer to use?
86. Why did you think a convenience sample was good enough for this study?
87. How could you be sure that this sample represented the population at large?
88. How did you determine your sample size?
89. What are the main sources or kinds of evidence?
90. If you have the opportunity now to reformulate your research question, what adjustment would you make?
91. Are your data strong enough in terms of their quantity and quality to sustain the conclusions that you draw?
92. Do the data or information you consider appropriately measure or relate to the theoretical concepts,
or underlying social or physical phenomena, that you are interested in?
93. How do your findings fit with or contradict the rest of the literature in this field?
94. How do you explain the differences of findings, or estimation, or interpretation between your work and that of other authors?
95. If you were to perform this study again, do you think you would find the same results?
96. What are the main implications or lessons of your research for the future development of work in this specific sub-field?
97. Are there any wider implications for other parts of the discipline?
98. Do you have 'next step' or follow-on research projects in mind?
99. Throughout the process of conducting your research, what was the biggest lesson you learned?
100. Why does your thesis merit a bachelor's/master's / PhD degree?
i hope both sides of your pillow are cold for tonight, thank you
This video, along with your 10 tips for success and 10 mistakes to avoid, have been absolutely fantastic as I prepare to defend in 2weeks. I'm having crazy pre-defense jitters, and I didn't know who to turn to for help (fairly unresponsive supervisor makes me feel like a graduate orphan). I'm so incredibly thankful for informative, and supportive videos like these.
THANK YOU for taking the time to create these resources!
OOooffff you are not alone. I am a graduate orphan too. It is extremely difficult to prepare with lack of guidance.
@@bh5074 I'm so sorry to hear that. It's a shame you don't have the support system that you deserve.
Best of luck to you! I ended up acing my defense, and honestly I think it's partly from good resources like these that I was able to have a good grasp of what to expect and be prepared. Hopefully it goes smoothly for you as well! You got this!
This is such an underrated channel for research topics. Damn...
Ah, thank you! Share my channel with your fellow-researchers then... 🤗
To be honest, this video answered all my questions regarding thesis defense. I am grateful!
Defense is tomorrow. I definitely paused a few times to mentally go over answers to some of the stranger questions in this list of 100. Thank you for this! It’s been so helpful in making me feel less anxious and more prepared!
Hope it went well! 👍🏼
@@RanywayzRandom It did! I am now a Dr.!
@@DrStratComm Congratulations, Doctor! 👍🏼
This is very educative!
Thanks, much appreciated... 👍🏼
My thesis defense is on Friday. I am re-watching this video in preparation.
My defense is within this month 😱 thank you a lot for your time 🙏
Thank you so much I was looking for weeks for such information as I am sooooo close to submit.
Best of luck!🤗
Thank you so much. This is super useful. My project defense for my bachelors degree is in less than three months. I’m super nervous but I hope it goes well
Thank you for the kind words, and success with your defense!... 😋
I truly appreciate your video series!!! Very thoughtful, insightful, and encouraging.
Thank you so much! I needed this!
So nice of you! And you're welcome... 😋
Very helpful, thank you.
If we put answer for every question, it will be a very strong and valuable dissertation.
Could I please have all the 100 questions in a separate word document please?
Great. Very insightful, educative and impactiful
Thank you so much for this ❤️ our defense are fast approaching 🙏😊
Success! Hope it went well... 😋
Thank you. Very helpful
Glad it was helpful! 😋
I'm having my thesis defence on Friday and I'm having some heavy anxiety. Thanks for this video.
Hope you did well! 👍🏼
Helpful video 👌
😋 Thanks, glad to hear that! 👍🏼
Awesome! Thank you
You're welcome! 😋
this is wonderful! Would you happen to have a PDF or something available with these questions?
thank you for sharing your knowledge and wisdom.
You have my thumbs up and subscription kind sir.
Awesome, thank you! 😋
I had my defense two days ago and this video was actually a really great help. Thank you very much
Thanks for the kind words; and you are most welcome.
Thank you so much!!
You're welcome! All the best!... 😋
The Gold is still Gold even after thousand of year, God bless you.
Thank you so much
Great prof you are
Your videos are so helpful! Thank you for that. In less than a week i have me phd defense! Please allow me a question, i found interesting and tricky the question about the problematic issue in a study. How could a candidate answer in such a question?
Thanks! Well, that depends. It is bit of a subjective, judgement call in terms of how one might respond. Personally, if it is a legitimate criticism, I might admit to the potential weakness or issue; and that this would be taken into account in my future research; if it feels right, I might also briefly highlight the practical constraints or circumstances that led to this weakness or issue. Just be calm, be professional, don't be provoked. Wish you success next week. 👍🏼
I thought it too that being honest is the best choice. Thank you so much for your response and your kind words!!!🙏🙏
TYSM 😭
YAVW😆
Hoping me and my members can pass the mock defense🙏🏻🙏🏻
Speaking English fluently during defense is a big challenge to me .... I might be good... When speaking my language... But it is discouraged
Thanks sir
Welcome. All the best! 👍🏼
What kind of pause are we “allowed” during a defense? Especially concerning the accusatory questions.
I'm doing this for my first-time grade 10 first These Defense.
I'm freaking out because I'm doing my defense tomorrow!
Hope it went well! 👍🏼
So scared,
I have the problem that my supervisor is very good at the content since she is researching a lot on it, with the downsides that I cannot compete on definitions level, and lacks a lot in helping with structure and ideas for improving the overall presentation of the paper. She also doesn't know much about DA and CDA which for a PhD teacher with more than 3 years in the field is a shame. Without DA my thesis doesn't stand out, so I'm not sure what should I do at this point, if to keep her or to change last minute 2 months before sending in. Keeping her would be a double-edged sword and instead of getting approval internally I may have 2 teachers "against" me including the external. Kinda odd situation. Usually I found myself luckier and better with teachers that knew 0 of my content but helped me with the structure, wished it was still the case. Wish me luck.
I'm damn nervous as my thesis defense is less than 2 months time wish me good luck
Why is ghost writing less of an issue at the Phd level?
In two weeks!
IN TWO WEEEEKS I will defend my thesis... Little bit nervous, but Lets goo! Thank you in advance :D
Good Luck. Same here :D
@@umairshahzad1383 good luck!
So.. how did you do? :)
@@btssupremacy4571 Hii! I did really well! 9/10! :)))))
@@BRENDACJMIRAN glad everything went well;)
Can I get 1he 100 questions
I watched this but I’m not even writing a thesis.
😂
wish me luck for our defense tomorrow 😭
Tomorrow we are defending our thesis,, i hope i see this video earlier,,but i believe we will go through our Thesis defense successfully, i believe and receive it JESUS name
Very interesting but you go so fast in the different points
tomorrow we are defending our research book please wish us good luck👍❤❤❤
Hope you had a successful defense! 🤗
အသစ်ဆုံးပထမ
Thank you. Sorry, can you email me the questions please?
i am sure i love u
I will defend within less than a month 🥲
Who else?!
Mine is Friday afternoon
@@konluching5749
Good luck and congratulations
Mine will be next Thursday
@@zezevip thanks! And good luck!
Best of luck! 👍🏼
my defense is tomorrow ..😭🙏
How was it? Did you defend well?
@@makemusiceasy1 I wanted to update my comment but I lost it lol.. it went very well!! even though I was very nervous I tried to look confident, the committee gave positive feedback. I tried to answer all the questions and the ones I didn't know I still answered for the best I could and it went well. Thanks for asking!!!
@@ayasera_9501 great! Happy to hear that! I also finished successfully two days ago. Now we are waiting for the graduation! Congratulations! 🥳 hope you can find a nice opportunities in your future life. Good luck
@@makemusiceasy1 congratulations to you too !! Thanks!! Can I ask what's your major ?
@@ayasera_9501 yeah sure, I had my MA in communications. How about you?
thank you for great tip but maybe u could speak slower a bit? U dont have to necessarily stress on every words it makes the audience very annoyed
Thanks for the tip!
Thank you so much!!
Glad it helped! 👍🏼
Thank You Very Much!
You're welcome! 😋