Been away from this forum for quite some time. Nice to see it's still so very active and helpful. Got my first interim assessment tomorrow - just finished preparing for it now. Probably under-prepared, but totally demotivated at the moment anyway :-( Will let you know what they ask and how it goes when it's over tomorrow, if anyone is interested. I think the outcome is: continue, resit or get outa my uni you lazy thicko (terminate candidature).

Good luck :)

It lasted for 3 hours and was very mentally draining. I just feel like I've given birth and am exhausted. I scraped through though(up). So many critical questions - I've never felt so under siege. I can only begin to imagine what the viva must be like... Now I'm just going to rest and try and assimilate what I've been told.

Hey Walminski!
Glad it wasn't a total firing squad! Congrats on getting through - what is your discipline, and were the panel experts in the field?

Hiya Sleepyhead. My research is within the discipline of health care. I suppose you could say that the panel were expert in the techniques I am trying to use for my research. You can definitely say that they are expert knit pickers! :p What's your discipline?

Hi
I'm in politics (well kind of - all a bit weird) but I was just wondering how other places use these assessments. I mean, it seems as though you had fairly decent people on your panel who could give you some solid feedback (or solid pedantry!). It's just that I have one in a couple of weeks and have some total randoms on my panel who will have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about (one bloke's in English!), so just wanted to see how it was for you!