What is the situation with online defense in many universities? Why do this?

It’s settled! Graduates from many universities conducted online defense! When defending your thesis online, you need to pay attention to these 4 points!

Due to the impact of the epidemic, the graduation defense time of some students may be affected to a certain extent. However, at present, many schools have conducted online defense.

Tsinghua University

In accordance with the needs of epidemic prevention and control, Tsinghua University has put forward the graduation principle of "obeying the overall situation, careful preparation, and graduating on time", and prepared detailed online defense plans for graduates to ensure that graduates can graduate on time!

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Shanghai Jiao Tong University conducted online defense for graduates who did not conduct online defense but met the defense requirements and intended to apply for a degree in March 2020, and the entire video defense was recorded for backup.

Central South University

During the epidemic, graduate degree applications were carried out normally, ensuring that the pre-examination, testing, review, and defense of master's and doctoral dissertations were all conducted online.

In addition, universities such as Shandong University and Northwestern Polytechnical University have also released online defense plans to ensure that every graduate graduates on time. Although online defense is different from on-site defense in terms of form, the defense process and preliminary preparations are similar. So what should you pay attention to when conducting an online defense? The editor has compiled 4 points for reference for graduates who are about to defend their thesis online.

1. Be familiar with the paper.

Some graduates may have finished their thesis early and then went to internships or look for jobs, thus forgetting some contents of the thesis. Therefore, before the defense, graduates need to have a deep and comprehensive understanding of the thesis. Even if you are very familiar with the paper, you still need to familiarize yourself with it and learn more about news, current events and academic hotspots related to the paper.

2. Think about your lines .

During the thesis defense, the defense instructor will ask a series of questions based on the content of the thesis. Graduates who need to answer these questions need to think about how to connect with the thesis in advance. Below, the editor has compiled the three questions that tutors are most likely to ask during the defense.

(1) What is the practical significance and purpose of studying this topic?

(2) What innovations are there in the paper’s topic, viewpoints, methods, etc.?

（3）What are the shortcomings of your paper?

In response to these questions, graduates who are defending their thesis must think of logical statements and avoid making statements that are like a diary!

3. Prepare a defense PPT.

As we all know, a defense PPT is required for the defense. The principle of making a PPT is to be concise and use data to speak. Avoid long paragraphs of text on the PPT, and be sure to avoid being fancy and complicated!

The editor prepared more than 300 sets of PPT templates for the defense. If you need it, you can follow the editor and send a private message to the editor "Graduation Defense", and the editor will send you the link of the PPT template!

4. Practice time control.

Usually when defending an essay, there is a time limit for personal statements. Therefore, before the defense, you need to practice your statements constantly to keep the statement time within the required time.

To sum up, these are the 4 points you need to pay attention to when conducting an online defense. As long as you prepare carefully, you will graduate successfully! What do you think about online defense?