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Thank you very much for your reply - it was very helpful to how I feel! Hopefully, like you said it is a learning process and I can only gain experience from this one so this sort of thing doesn't happen in the final viva. 

I suppose I focused on what I thought they would ask me and not from their point of view, which reflecting on that was stupid of me. I didn't take their personal research interests into consideration which how they evidently ask their questions.

I also feel as I am not as connected to my research group members as others and possibly asking them may have helped me a little. 

Thank you again for your reply - always good to hear how someone else's went!

p.s Good luck in your 2nd yr Viva :-)

So I have just come out of my First Year Viva feeling totally deflated. All that study I did before it seemed to be a waste, as my advisory panel focused on the synthesis part of my report [very minor part!]. This totally caught me off guard and I couldn't fully answer their questions - feeling stupid is underestimating how I feel now.

Everything they asked, I answered for a bit until I found myself struggling again. I did not tell anyone in my research group I had my Viva scheduled for today, as I like to keep those things quiet.

Has anyone else felt this way after a Viva?? Is it normally to question do I want to continue to 2nd year??


Appreciate people's feedback!!!