Just wanted to share my terrible viva voce experience that I had a few days ago.

I was assigned a godsent of a supervisor and she had helped me a lot throughout the entire process of the thesis writing. We even took a whole day before the thesis submission to make sure everything is in the best condition before submitting to the panels.

We were assigned two internal panels, both of them are PhD holders in their respective fields. After the viva voce session I received the scoring sheet from both panels. One panel gave me perfect scores for all aspects. Whereas the other one gave me the lowest score possible for each aspect.

During the viva voce, the examiner that gave me the perfect score gave constructive comments while complimenting the idea and the thorough discussion of the thesis. However, the other examiner straight up downgrades my thesis. And in the thesis, there was one section where I thoroughly explain about the theory that I use with the intention to help readers understand more about the theory. However, during the viva the panel straight up told me that I was 'obsessed' with the theory as I was explaining too much about it. I don't really get it. Is being thorough when explaining is not the point of a thesis?

I felt like I was unfairly treated during the viva voce by the examiner. However I didn't really want to make a big deal out of it since my supervisor also advised me to not be hurt by the said panel.

To be fair, I didn't expect one can be so hateful towards a thesis when one refuses to comprehend the thesis, straight away diving in to downgrading one's work.