Hi,
I recently passed my viva in a humanities subject at a UK university with lots of small corrections, and was given ample time to fix. The corrections stemmed from the thesis being submitted early (cutting off the last 8 weeks) because of miscommunication, so had a high number of sloppy errors around formatting, missing words, typos and page numbers being out (like pp. 63-4 rather than just p.64). My examiners were very formal and thorough though, and picked up on every single one - and demanded I do a full check before handing the corrections in, which I did. Both said the research was very good, but one seemed very unhappy over the number of presentation issues, to the extent I thought they would push for a resubmit.
Problem is, I just submitted my corrections before deadline to the chair of the committee. The chair desired both a tracked change and a 'clean' version for the examiner to look at. I noticed after this though that I had made an error in the version by clicking 'reject' to some of the changes, which reverted them back to the old file. I'm only talking perhaps 10 of 100 minor changes, but I'm concerned given the nature of the original complaint, that they'll go hard on anything sloppy. Of particular worry is that - literally - one click of a mouse has left in errors that I knew existed, to the extent I now appear to be ignorant, stupid, or both.
I emailed the chair, who doesn't want a new file, as it 'may cause confusion'. However, I've been told that it could take many weeks for the examiner to read the file. Has anyone been in this position before? There seems to be little guidance online about whether examiners can 'fail' candidates after rejecting their corrections, but I was wondering about grounds for appeal should the chair refuse to pass on a version of the PhD I'm actually happy with, having explicitly flagged up a mistake caused by a slip of the finger.
I really don't think you are likely to fail on a few typos, so I wouldn't worry too much! You have done the vast majority of them correctly.
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