What shouldn’t you do in a viva?

• Assume that the viva does not matter

• Answer a question with ‘my supervisor made me do it’

• Stick to one word answers

• Display intransigence

• Display rampant cynicism

• Be flippant

• Display a lack of interest

• Show an inability to describe your own work

• Show an inability to define fundamental terms

• Show an inability to talk about the papers that you cite