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PhD Qualifying Exams -- Are they being phased out?
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[QUOTE="Vanadium 50, post: 6848946, member: 110252"] This may better belong in its own thread: There are three factors entering these decisions: (1) In the past, there was abuse. Universities had the support for N students to do research, but needed 2N to TA freshman physics. How to reconcile this? A qual that half the students passed. (2) There is competition for students, and students don't like quals. Hard to blame them. (3) It is considered a barrier to diversity. I don't buy this ("are you really saying that women and minorities are less good at solving physics problems"?) but either other people do, or they are using this as a fig leaf for other reasons. While the qual itself was a painful ordeal, I think preparing for it was important and useful. [/QUOTE]
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