The Doctoral Candidacy Exam is for the student to present his thesis proposal. Here is my idea of its major components.
- What are you proposing to do? (E.g., transmute lead into gold.)
- Why is it worth doing? (We'll all get rich.)
- How is it intellectually deep? (The required cold fusion design...)
- What has already been done in this area? (Alchemists have been working in this area for over 1000 years.)
- What is your research plan? (To irradiate polywater with N-rays.)
- What have you already done? (Have transmuted lead into copper, tin, and silver.)
- What remains to do? (To produce polywater, demonstrate N-rays, irradiate the polywater, then create cold fusion and combine.)