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The Purpose and Process of PhD Comprehensive VIVA Examination (IIIT Hyderabad)
After clearing breadth qualifier (while doing depth courses), student needs to do literature survey deeply on 8-10 research papers (needs to be forwarded to advisory committee), along with studying other related papers.
Advisory committee is your advisor, a subject matter expert, and another member outside of the area of research. Student is given a set of questions beforehand based on selected papers.
A report (6-10 pages) and presentation needs to be prepared before the comprehensive viva.