The Comprehensive Examination (COMP Exam) is a take-home essay exam devised to help you synthesize your learning into a powerful personal and professional statement. The COMP Exam is required for both ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Comprehensive Examination Questions are in essay format. The exam is held from 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. on: the ninth Friday of the Fall/Summer semesters (for the 14-week Summer Semester) the ...

The dreaded written comprehensive exam. Many graduate students will have to pass some form of comprehensive exam at some point in their program. This can often include putting together a multi-page ...

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) ...

Q: Who should I talk to if I have questions leading up to the MA Comprehensive Exam? A: Please reach out to the Graduate Advisor, the MA Comprehensive Exam Committee, or the Education Program ...