Hi Everyone!
I am new to this forum and to be honest desperately looking for an answer to my problem!
I am supposed to resubmit my transfer report (mini thesis to transfer from Mphil to PhD, UK system).
I have just had very good and I can say novel results. my deadline is in10 days and all I have to do is to present these results. However, looking into my results in more details there are some inaccuracy in my results which is not because of normalization or things that I can change now. I guess my measurement needs to be done again!
But I cannot do my measurements since the laser is broken!

My question is, how bad or good is it to present these inaccurate results and also mention their mistakes and why I think they are wrong and how I can improve them?!?!
Many thanks for your answers!
:)

Hey! Well they don't really do these upgrade viva things at my uni- you just have a review at the end of first year (which is more just like a chat about progress and feedback on the written work you have submitted to the committee- so long as it's of an acceptable standard then you progress to second year). The main aim seems to be to just check that basically you have produced evidence that you have been working hard for the year and that you have something to show for it. So in that sense you should be okay. I guess the main question is, how big an error is this? Is it another week's work to re-do it or another 6 month's work? If it is a fairly minor issue then I would just be honest and explain the situation, but also explain that you know how to correct the errors and you are confident of the way forward. Everyone makes mistakes and the main thing is to learn from them and move on. If it's more serious then it might be difficult to brush over. Is your supervisor present at the viva? If he/she isn't involved in the assessment then would it be possible to mention the error to him/her and ask their advice on what to do? That's what I'd do, but then I have a pretty good relationship with my supervisor- I appreciate some people might not be in the position where they could share this sort of thing with their sup. Best of luck with it, however you decide to proceed- let us know how you get on! Best, KB

hi As21462; sorry I cant give you much advice; I've had this problem before but fortunately there was plenty of time (and leftover material) to run the experiments again and make changes to the data. The best person to advise you would be your supervisor. You still have 9 days (if you dont count tomorrow's Easter monday); how about sending an SOS text or email to your supervisor. Good luck
satchi

Aww that's very sweet Satchi, thank you. That's the nicest thing anyone has said about me in at least a week! Thanks! KB