ANSWER THE QUESTIONS
1. What is your name? Where are you from? When and where were you born?
Where do you live now?
2. What higher educational establishment have you graduated from? What
faculty? When did you graduate from the academy (university)? What subjects did you
study at the academy? What were your favourite subjects at the academy? Did you
participate in any scientific societies when you were a student?
3. Where do you study now? What is your speciality? What narrow field of
science (economics, agriculture, veterinary medicine) do you deal with? When did you
get interested in this field of study? What is the programme of your study? Do you
attend the lectures and seminars in English and philosophy regularly? Are you a parttime or full-time post-graduate student? Are you a first or second year postgraduate?
4. When did you enter post-graduate-courses? What exams did you take? Did
you pass your exams successfully? What marks did you get at the entrance exams?
Why did you decide to enter the post-graduate course? How long will your course last?
5. Who is your scientific leader? Tell a few words about your scientific adviser.
What field of science does he deal with? Does your scientific leader help you in your
scientific research? Does he often criticize (correct) some points of your thesis? Do
you follow his advice?
6. What is the title of your scientific paper? What does your thesis deal with?
What is it concerned with? (What is the topic of your investigations?) (What problems
are you going to touch on in your scientific paper? Name all of them. What is the
practical use (value) of your thesis? What are the main objectives of your scientific
paper? What is the theoretical value of your thesis?
7. Where do you get materials (information, data) for your thesis? Is Internet
helpful to you too? What scientific journals do you read? What kind of information do
you get? Do you read any scientific literature in English? Have you read any scientific
literature of your scientific supervisor? What are they about? Can they help you in
your scientific research?
8. Do you carry out the experimental part of your work? Where? What
experiments do you carry out? What do you need for your experiments? Who sponsors
your research?
9. Have you written any scientific articles? What are they about? Have you
published them? Where? Are you going to publish them? Have you taken part in
scientific conferences?
10. How long have you been working on your thesis? How many chapters have
you already written? What is it about? When are you going to present (submit) your
thesis for defence? (When are you going to defend your thesis?)
Is there the Higher Qualification Commission in your speciality at our Academy? Who
is the Head of it?
11. Do you work? Where do you work? What is your occupation?
How long have you been working there? Is your work connected with your
thesis?
12. What are you going to do after taking the degree of Candidate of
Science? Are you going to continue your scientific career for the Doctoral
degree?