Pro practicePhD confirmation and progression panel practice interview
Progress made since enrolment, the strength of the research design, emerging findings and a credible plan for completing the doctorate. Practise the 5 questions the real interviewer asks with follow-ups. Paid plans add scored feedback on every answer.
A Pro practice interview, on the Pro plan from ₦5,000 a month billed yearly, or on Premium.
- 20 minutes
- 5 questions
- Scored feedback on paid plans
About this interview
A PhD confirmation and progression panel reviews whether a doctoral project is sound, sufficiently advanced and manageable within the remaining period. The panel tests your command of the field, the evidence behind your decisions and your ability to respond constructively to scrutiny.
How to prepare
- Revisit your research question, intended contribution and the main literature that frames the project.
- Map each claim about progress to evidence such as completed analysis, fieldwork or drafted chapters.
- Prepare a concise defence of your methods and the alternatives you rejected.
- Identify the project's main limitations and explain how you will manage or report them.
- Build a realistic work plan that includes dependencies, ethics approvals and contingency time.
Common mistakes
- Reporting activity without showing what intellectual or practical progress it produced.
- Defending every early decision instead of acknowledging justified changes.
- Presenting tentative findings as settled conclusions.
- Offering a completion plan that ignores access, approval or analysis risks.
What to expect
A real mock interview
5 questions the way the real interviewer asks, with follow-ups when an answer needs more.
Spoken, like the real thing
Speak your answers in your browser or the free desktop app, with live captions. You can ask the interviewer to repeat anything.
Scored on 5 areas
The things this interview weighs most. With a paid plan, your report shows how you did on each one.
A private report
On Plus, Pro and Premium: every answer scored, your strongest lines quoted and what to say differently next time. Interview creators never see it.
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