My public policy comprehensive exam is next Friday from 10am to 2pm.
It’s challenging for a lot of reasons, but the biggest is the sheer difficulty of retaining the quantity of basic information (authors, names of books and articles, dates of publication) which is expected.
I will be spending the last week outlining answers to plausible questions, reading or re-reading some key sources, putting key bits of information into big Excel tables, and then reviewing those tables.
Author: Milan
In the spring of 2005, I graduated from the University of British Columbia with a degree in International Relations and a general focus in the area of environmental politics. Between 2005 and 2007 I completed an M.Phil in IR at Wadham College, Oxford. I worked for five years for the Canadian federal government, including completing the Accelerated Economist Training Program, and then completed a PhD in Political Science at the University of Toronto in 2023.
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Milan, Sounds like you have a good plan for the last week before the exam. All the best. oleh