I had a math teacher in high school who could be fairly described as abusive. He would cut weak students out of the herd and verbally eviscerate them, as if public excoriation could somehow impart ...

The Comprehensive Exam tests knowledge of graduate-level mathematics. The purpose is to ensure that each student has the necessary knowledge to conduct research in his or her area of concentration.

This is a GradHacker post by Stephanie Hedge, a PhD candidate at Ball State University in Rhetoric and Composition, @slhedge A few months ago, I wrote a GradHacker post on studying for comprehensive ...

K.D. Shives is a pursuing a PhD in Microbiology at the University of Colorado. She can be found blogging about microbes on her site kdshives.com and on Twitter at @KDShives. The dreaded written ...

In addition to History 600 (Proseminar), all Ph.D. students are required to take either History 781 (Historiography: The Americas), History 783 (Historiography), or History 785 (U.S. Historiography) ...

After completing an approved curriculum of coursework, a student advances to candidacy in Mathematics by passing an comprehensive exam. A description of this requirement can be found on the Degree ...