Questions for your viva-Simple to

Comprehensive
General Questions
1. What is the title of your thesis?

2. Please explain the background knowledge you gained before adopting this title

and accepting this thesis?

3. Why you selected this thesis, how does the selection links with your lifetime

goals?

4. Is there any practical application of this thesis in real life?

5. What is the overall objective of your thesis in terms of research and industrial

application?

6. What is the contribution of your thesis to the existing literature does it add

anything new?

7. Why did you study Polymer Engineering?

8. Is your project contributing anything to the Polymer Engineering Field? Does your

research work/thesis fits into Polymer Engineering Field as a whole?

9. How your project contributes towards Pakistan Industrial Growth (Future Scope),

Explain with facts and figures?

10. What are the research gaps that you have identified based on your literature

review?

11. What type of background research you have done for the study?

12. Explain the experimental strategy/research methodology that you have adopted

for your research, is it practical, can you explain it with actual economic facts and

figures?
13. Do you have a business plan for your research?

14. What steps would you adopt for the commercialization of your research work?

15. If you are given more time what extra experimentation, simulation and

calculations would you perform?

16. What are the overall recommendations of your study?

17. What is the contribution of each group member in the overall completion of this

thesis?

18. What do you plan to do with your research work after your degree completion?

19. What are the main variables in your thesis?

20. Can you give a sales pitch for your thesis in 5 minutes?

21. Can you please start by summarizing your thesis in five sentences?

22. What are the weak points of your thesis?

23. What published work is closest to yours?

24. What are the most recent major developments in your area?

25. Did you encounter any problems with applying this method of analysis?

26. Do you think the data you collected were the most appropriate to answer your

research question or are there any other data you would have liked to have

collected?

27. Has your view of your research topic changed during the course of the research?

28. Who are your envisioned users?

29. Have you solved the field's problem that you claim to have solved?

30. Would you be able to secure a research funding based on your research work?