no of course not. but idea being that even were i to, i might still be asked to re-submit!:-)

oh thanks. i did ask supervisor. that's when he said they'd probly ask me to make changes, but an mphil would be kind of 'harsh' of them. i don't know myself re: it's level because i don't hv a masters thesis etc to measure it against, as i'm doing it straight from my under grad degree.
re: re-submissions, my idea was that once the examiners ask you to resubmit, they are very specific abt what changes you shd make, and once you make those, you get the phd anyway. so there is a degree of certainty to that. i see people slaving away for 5+ yrs n then getting asked to resubmit, so idea was that i get asked to resubmit now. (sound stupid but method to madness etc) ...

Hi everyone, I'm five months into the third yr of my phd....history, very empirical, curzon as viceroy of India. i am planning to submit in a couple of weeks...should i? meaning to say that supervisor is ok with it, but says i wont get an outright phd, i'd be asked to make minor or major corrections, which is ok, but what if the examiners give me an MPhil? does anyone know of anyone actually being given an mphil at the viva? sup. says it would be "rather bad luck" if that happened, but the thing is examiners obviously have their own views and they might just think that they'd like to gimme an mphil. HELP! Should i put thesis in next week, or stew around for a further six months?
(i should add i am an overseas student in the uk, and fully-self funded, so am snowed under debt and also missed out on last yr's grad milkground)