Be failed

[alanrotoi]

Doctor Poo?

[Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister]

Doctor Poo?

Maybe, once. :-) The PhD thesis is a bit more further, but absolutorium is the goal till June.

[Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister]

Doctor Poo?

Maybe, once. :-) The PhD thesis is a bit more further, but absolutorium is the goal till June.

All my exams are done. Request for PhD absolutorium issued last week.

[Duplode]

All my exams are done. Request for PhD absolutorium issued last week.

Is the absolutorium a key "preliminary defence" exam done around halfway through the PhD process? (In Brazil we call that qualficação/qualification.)

[Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister]

All my exams are done. Request for PhD absolutorium issued last week.

Is the absolutorium a key "preliminary defence" exam done around halfway through the PhD process? (In Brazil we call that qualficação/qualification.)

PhD absolutorium (University of Miskolc):

6 successful semesters:
8 exams (for example, Physical Chemistry was one of them)
8 other courses of research, ended by a written study of 10-25 pages (literature collection, measurement evaluation etc.)
definite amount and level of publication
definite amount of teaching students
4 semesters of research at the Department
three end-term presentations (oral) and report (written)

After PhD absolutorium:

second language exam (for me, it will be German)
two papers published in journals with Impact Factor (one in Hungarian, one in English)
a master exam called "szigorlat" (complex exam of all related scientific topics)
PhD dissertation with at least 3-4 theses
PhD dissertation defence

I think it is not a "preliminary defence" yet, but it is around halfway according to my observation of other students/would-be-doctors.

[Duplode]

I think it is not a "preliminary defence" yet, but it is around halfway according to my observation of other students/would-be-doctors.

It is slightly different indeed. For the programs I am familiar with here there isn't necessarily such a large list of mandatory things to be done and there is a single major examination/presentation to a panel of professors halfway through.

[Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister]

such a large list of mandatory things to be done

That is a typical Hungarian feature...

[Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister]

Doctor Poo?

Maybe, once. :-) The PhD thesis is a bit more further, but absolutorium is the goal till June.

All my exams are done. Request for PhD absolutorium issued last week.

Request discussed and accepted on Monday by the Doctoral Committee of the Faculty. PhD absolutorium achieved.

[Duplode]

Doctor Poo?

Maybe, once. :-) The PhD thesis is a bit more further, but absolutorium is the goal till June.

All my exams are done. Request for PhD absolutorium issued last week.

Request discussed and accepted on Monday by the Doctoral Committee of the Faculty. PhD absolutorium achieved.

Well done!

[Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister]

When you drive home from abroad (Germany and Czech Republic) without a driving license (having lost it, got a piece of toilet paper from the Prague Hungarian embassy which is totally invalid for driving), you just start to feel that before university exams, you wasn't really afraid enough of being failed... 

[Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister]

The fate of my potential job as a researcher (now I am accidentally working at the sales department) can be decided 17th January 2025, when the public defense of my doctoral dissertation takes place... I am 41 now and if it turns out that there is no chance of being a researcher of the University of Miskolc, I'll search for a job in the industrial sector...