This is one reason I loved the political theory comp format (present a paper, get feedback, write a revision memo, revise, resubmit). It was the most useful way I can imagine a comp going. The American written comp... not as useful.
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8-hour closed note for CP! What I found them useful for: (1) introducing me to the Annual Reviews as a resource; (2) organizing scattered thoughts about core concepts / teaching myself to read the lit intertextually; (3) distracting myself from the onset of the pandemic; ...
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(4) I'm doing a "state of the poli-sci field" project this summer, so I suppose it was useful prep work for that. But that's totally idiosyncratic.
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Two written comps - one 6 hours, one 4 hours. Closed note based on a pre-set reading list provided by the faculty. Oral comp merged into dissertation proposal defense. I worked hard for comps but learned a lot, so in the end I'd say it was worth it.
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One 1.5 hour oral exam with half an hour each on your major sub-field, focus field (curated reading list), and secondary sub-field. You can present work in methodology to opt out of one of them. Political theorists don't have a major+focus, instead we test on Herodotus to Weber.
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3 fields w/ written exams, each 9 hours. (Get Q at 8 AM, finish by 5). Followed by one joint oral exam (two hours). All based on field lists. I don't know that the exams themselves were useful, but spending several months reading important work I hadn't yet read definitely was.
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I loved comps + also felt like it was the first time everything I'd been reading and hearing about the past 4 years fit together. I can honestly say that w/out them, I never would have become an academic. But part of that was a function of knowing nothing abt academia or polisci
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b4 grad school. Ours I think were 8 hrs open book (three fields)? But I don't remember... I also had an amazing cohort and we all studied together. I learnt a ton, and go back to stuff I put together then for teaching all the time. Also I didn't take IR. I prob wld have hated IR.
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After first year, 4hour closed book written exams. After coursework, 2hour closed book oral exam with 5 examiners. 2 in minor field and 3 in major (w/ abt a 50-book syllabus for each). NB: the dept scrapped this format a couple years later as being counter productive.
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Israeli universities don't have comps as far as I know. We defend our research proposal after the first or second year and at the end defend our dissertation
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