Prepping for your qualifying exams can feel a bit aimless at times. One way to help you organize your study is to brainstorm specific questions that you might use all of your readings to answer. Here’s a worksheet to help you develop some practice questions.
If you have to come up with your own questions anyway–perfect! If you will be working with your advisor or committee to develop questions, use this as a place to start. And even if you aren’t going to have a hand in coming up with your quals questions, give it a shot to help you identify what you do and do not know about the fields you will be tested in. Feel free to bring the worksheet to a session with me, too.
