All About Comps: What You Need To Know If You Want To Pass

Most doctoral students enter the comps stage with no clear instruction on how to do them well or how to use them strategically.

They read. They study. They stress.

And they still walk into that exam guessing.

And then they move on, leaving behind months of work that could have directly built their dissertation.

That ends here.

This pre-recorded 2-day intensive training gives you the strategy, structure, and tools to not only pass your qualifying exams, but to use them to shave time off your program.

This training is for doctoral students who are approaching comps, currently in comps, or preparing to schedule their exams and want a clear, structured plan for getting through this stage efficiently.

What you'll learn:

• What comps actually are and why most students approach them wrong
• How to build and maximize your comp bibliographies so they do double duty
• How to read for comps efficiently—once, thoroughly, and never again
• Strategic note-taking systems that feed directly into your dissertation
• How to write comp essays that become the foundation of your dissertation chapters
• How to create a realistic, aggressive prep schedule based on your actual availability
• How to protect your time and eliminate the guesswork at every stage

The result: You finish your comps with a clear head, a stronger bibliography, and a significant head start on your dissertation—without starting over or writing chapters from scratch.

This is not a motivation course. It's a strategy course.

You already have the intelligence and the discipline.

What you need is a system. This is it.