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Nathan

The Power Of Prep

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Prep won’t make you perfect.

Prep won’t reveal every question you might be asked – or create answers for every line of discussion.

Prep won’t let you know how you’ll feel on the day and it won’t let you sidestep tricky situations.

And prep won’t allow you to know how your examiners feel about your thesis before you sit down with them in the viva.

 

Viva prep helps you to be ready for the particular difficulties of the viva after you have already built up years of experience, skill and knowledge at dealing with difficulties in your research.

Viva prep won’t give you an answer for every question, but can help you to respond to any question.

Viva prep won’t show you how you’ll feel on the day, but will help shape you how approach the experience.

Viva prep won’t make you perfect – but will make you prepared. That’s all you need.

Nathan

The Power of Prep

Daily Post

It won’t make you perfect.

It won’t mean you’ll get no corrections.

It won’t mean you’ll be blank-free in the viva, or that it’s impossible you’ll be stumped.

It doesn’t come with anything like a guarantee.

But it means that, for a small investment of time, you are as ready as you can possibly be to meet your examiners and talk about your work with them. You’ve taken the time to boost yourself, not better yourself. You already know everything you need to know, you can already do everything you need to do.

This is the stretch before the race, or checking your lines just before you walk on stage.

The little extra that helps you get the viva done.