Afternoon all,

A few days ago I recieved some devistating news that I have been asked to resubmit my thesis in 6 months time.

I have been doing some looking and a few universities seem to say that this is not uncommon, yet I have found the news quite hard to take and quite a knock back in my confidence. I am finding it hard to tell my friends and familty because I feel like such a failure.

Is being asked to resubmit your thesis a comon thing? Will affect my job search etc?

I am a little annoyed at how this came about. Some quick feed back over the phone I was told that the external examiner wasnt happy with some of the data or the level of data. Before I started writing the final paper I asked my supivisor on a few occasions if she was happy with the methodology and the results. She said she was and that it was largely down to how well the paper is written. The feedback I have gotten seems to flip this suggesting the paper is well written but the level or data may not be sufficient.

Some kind words of encouragement would be very much appreciated.

Many thanks