Thank you very much for the comments.

@wanderingbit: Yes I did answer his objections clearly with examples etc and I was happy with the way I answered. The examiner did leave that point and moved on without giving any hints that he will put them in corrections. He made his mind and came up with list of extensions before viva started..and it seem he didn't change his mind about any of those extensions. I thought the matter was over.. and wasn't expecting such out of the way extensions and experiments. I have got actually more of additions than actual corrections. I am having meeting with supervisors and I hope they can suggest something. But apparently they know the examiner is wrong but they are insisting me to accept the extensions. I was Expert on the Topic till an hour before viva and nobody is listening to me right now.

@DocInsanity What i understand is that you mean that I can avoid some changes/extensions by justifying and communicating to the examiner that why I think they were not needed? If that would do, I would be very happy. I will talk about this with supervisors. Thank you.

Hi

I had a viva four days ago. the viva itself was good. I believe I defended well my approach and study. Despite spending many years of work and making many contributions according to my supervisors and publishing papers in good conferences, I have been given almost major corrections - they are calling modest corrections though in the report.

The issue is the corrections are totally irrelevant to my PhD research area. I understand correction is always a possible outcome but going for changes that are not relevant to my area is very unjust. My research was about an interdisciplinary area and the examiner suggested all the changes to his area of interest. I can clearly justify why the suggested changes are about issues do not require any consideration in the thesis and my supervisors have mentioned it verbally.

I have no idea what options do I have. Is it an academic judgment against which I can not appeal? Appeals too take many months. Can I contact examiners and clarify the limits of the study? But I do not want to go and make further experiments in the the area suggested by examiner.

I would instead prefer to finally give up dreaming to have a PhD degree. I do not know if my supervisors would stand by me. Any suggestions to deal with this situation would be very appreciated.

Syed