Possible Questions

1.
What is your research study all about?

2. Why did you choose this study?
3. Why did you choose this particular title for your research?
4. What is the scope of your study?
5. What phenomenon were you trying to understand with this research?
6. Who will be most interested in your research?
8. What gaps did you intend to bridge with your research?
9. Why is your research significant?
13. Why did you choose this research methodology?
17. Did you experience any limitations in your research?
18. What sampling techniques did you use?
19. What are the dependent and independent variables in your research?
Introduction: Problem or Question
 What exactly do you want to study?

 What is your research question or questions?
 Why is it worth studying?
 What is the purpose or significance of your study?
 Does the proposed study have practical significance?
 How are you defining your terms?
 What are the limitations of your study?
 What is the researcher’s perspective or viewpoint?
Literature Review
 What have others said about this topic?

 What theories address it and what do they say? What research has been done
previously?
 Are there consistent findings or do past studies disagree?
 Are there flaws in the body of existing research that you feel you can remedy?
Methods & Subjects
 What inquiry approach are you using?

 Will you conduct an experiment or survey?
 Will you undertake field research, or are you going to focus on the reanalysis of
statistics already created by others?
 What is the setting for the research?
 Who or what will you study in order to collect the data?
 Who are the subjects in general and who is available for study? How will you reach
them?
 Will it be appropriate to select a sample? If so, how will you do that?
 If there is any possibility that your research will have an impact on those you study,
how will you ensure that they are not harmed by the research?
Measurement
 What are the key variables in your study?

 How will you define and measure them?
 Do your definitions and measurement methods duplicate or differ from those of
previous research on this topic?
 Are you developing your measurement device (for example, questionnaire) or will
you be using something previously developed by others?
 When developing a measurement device to measure your study group, how will you
determine the validity of the instrument?
 For existing instruments, how do you know it is valid for your sample and how will
you establish reliability for your sample? (Reliability should always be reported for the
study sample, not the development samples reported in manuals.)
Data Collection
 How will you actually collect the data for your study (observation, interviews,
document analysis, focus group, photography and video, etc.)?
Question 1: In a few sentences, are you able to tell us what your study is all about?
The question is simple right?
Many professors will tell you that the majority of students get choked on an issue like this.
Anyways the question is straightforward, but a touch technical.
To answer this question, you would like to understand every detail of your scientific research
from chapter one to the top.
The question needs a solution in sort of a summary of the whole study, therefore, to ace this
particular question you would like to understand every detail in your abstract.
If you wrote an honest abstract, this question is going to be a cross-over for you.
Question 2: What’s your motivation for this study?
Now you must be careful here.
These questions are often very tricky and it goes an extended way in convincing your panel
members that your study is worth their time.
Another way this question might be twisted is what’s THE RESEARCH PROBLEM?
To answer this question, you’ll plan to elaborate on the matter investigated within the study.
Your zeal to solve this problem becomes your motivation.
Do not state financial reasons or the necessity to graduate as a motivation as you’ll easily
explode point.
Question 3: How will this study contribute to the body of knowledge?
At some point, the necessity for justification will arise which is once you are going to be
asked to say how your study will increase the body of data if approved.
Here you’ll get to use your methods, case study, or any unique model or conceptual
framework utilized in the study to defend it.
Question 4: What is the significance of the study?
Just like stating how your study will contribute to the body of data, you’ll get to state the
importance of your study.
To answer this question, you’ll get to highlight how your study will aid the govt in policy
development and implementation, how it’ll help other students who may wish to conduct
research studies on the topic matter, and therefore the way organizations and society will
enjoy your study.
Question 5: Did you bridge any gaps in your study?
Every research study must have a problem.
Your ability to unravel this problem and explore areas not yet researched gives you the
complete marks allocated for answering this question.
You must be ready to convince the committee members that your approach is exclusive and
it covered areas where much hasn’t been done by other researchers.
Question 6: What limitations did you encounter?
This is another simple but tricky question. Most times the question isn’t asked to feel for you,
but rather urge loopholes to criticize your work.
To answer this question, you want to take care with words as you’ll implicate yourself. Be
careful enough not to sell out yourself.
Do not discuss limitations in your methods or data analysis techniques as this might imply
that your study could also be biased or not well-researched.
Use simple limitations like difficulties encountered in combining lectures and projects rather
than limiting your study.
Question 7: What are your findings?
At now it’s expected of you to present your results or findings from the study in a clear and
concise manner.
Always link your findings to your research objectives/questions.

This will make your panel members simply be carried along.
Question 8: What Methods or Sampling Techniques did you employ?
To answer this question, you want to be conversant in your research methodology.
Your chapter three (in Most Projects) must be at your fingertips.
Question 9: Why choose this method?
As discussed above, you ought to not only state a specific method for the study.
You must even be ready and ready to justify why you chose the tactic in a convincing
manner.
At now you’re liberal to quote sources or similar studies where such methods were adopted.
Question 10: supporting your findings what are your recommendations?
Recommendations are very vital in every research study and will not be joked with.
In essence, you ought to know your recommendations off hand.
Question 11: supporting your findings what areas will you suggest for future research?
Questions like this are just there to check your reasoning and authority in your research
area.
Based on your findings during a manageable scope, you ought to be ready to suggest future
research areas in line with your study.
For example, if I researched the challenges of private tax collection in Cameroon, an honest
area for further study is going to be in other sorts of taxation such as VAT, Company tax, etc.
Question 12: How can your research study be put into practice?
Easy for science and engineering students, but a touch tough for management and social
sciences since most management/social science projects are more abstract in nature.
However, you ought to try your best to be realistic here.
Relate your study to current trends in your environment, office, economy, government,
schools, church, etc.
The use of relevant examples and illustrations will score a good point here.
Question 13: How would you summarize your study to a practitioner using a few sentences?
Your ability to convey technical information from the study will score you good points here.
Question 14: What would you modify if you were to conduct the study again?
Hmmm. Be careful! don’t be too jovial. there’s a loophole here! a bit like your limitations, this
question is often asked to spot your weak points.
In simple terms, what data collection method did you use for the study?
Here you state if questionnaires were distributed or data was gotten from secondary
sources.
For more information on measurement instruments.
Question 16: What are your research variables?
Here you’ll get to convince your panel members that you simply know what you’re talking
about.
You would like to elucidate your independent and dependent variable(s) to convince them
that you simply are on point. Your variables are present in your project topic.
You would like to spot these variables and know their definitions also to ace your defense.
Question 17: What are your research questions?
Very simple question.
It should take about 0.015 seconds to answer this question if you’re fully prepared.
Question 18: What does one decide to do together with your scientific research after
Graduation?
Here you’re at liberty to mention your mind.
If you plan to publish it, this is often the simplest opportunity to discuss and interact with the
committee members-maybe a professor there can help.
Question 19: What source of knowledge was employed for the study?
At now you’ve got to state the source(s) you bought data from. generally, you’ve got to state
whether data was gotten from a primary or secondary source or both.
You’ll further convince the committee members by discussing the literature review for the
study-both theoretical and empirical.
Question 20: What theories or theoretical framework is your study based on?
This is a really technical question but interesting.

Before you step into the defense room, you ought to know a minimum of two relevant
theories that relate to your study.
For instance, the “impact of motivation on employee productivity” is going to be supported by

Maslow’s Theory and other theories of motivation.
If you can’t find relevant theories to copy your study, consult your supervisor for help.
Question 23: what’s the scope of the study?
This one may be a cheap or should I say bonus question.
Here you quickly state the delimitation of the study in short.

Possible Questions

Uploaded by

Copyright:

Available Formats

Possible Questions

Uploaded by

Document Information

Original Description:

Original Title

Copyright

Available Formats

Share this document

Share or Embed Document

Sharing Options

Did you find this document useful?

Is this content inappropriate?

Copyright:

Available Formats

Possible Questions

Uploaded by

Copyright:

Available Formats

1.

What is your research study all about?

 What exactly do you want to study?

 What have others said about this topic?

Methods & Subjects

 What inquiry approach are you using?

 What are the key variables in your study?

The question is simple right?

Question 2: What’s your motivation for this study?

Now you must be careful here.

Your zeal to solve this problem becomes your motivation.

Question 4: What is the significance of the study?

Question 5: Did you bridge any gaps in your study?

Every research study must have a problem.

Question 6: What limitations did you encounter?

Question 7: What are your findings?

Always link your findings to your research objectives/questions.

Question 8: What Methods or Sampling Techniques did you employ?

To answer this question, you want to be conversant in your research methodology.

Your chapter three (in Most Projects) must be at your fingertips.

Question 9: Why choose this method?

Question 10: supporting your findings what are your recommendations?

In essence, you ought to know your recommendations off hand.

However, you ought to try your best to be realistic here.

For more information on measurement instruments.

Question 16: What are your research variables?

Question 17: What are your research questions?

Very simple question.

Here you’re at liberty to mention your mind.

This is a really technical question but interesting.

For instance, the “impact of motivation on employee productivity” is going to be supported by

Question 23: what’s the scope of the study?

This one may be a cheap or should I say bonus question.

Here you quickly state the delimitation of the study in short.

You might also like