Pervin passed her qualifying exam and is now a PhD candidate in the Tetrad graduate program

The qualifying exam is an important checkpoint meant to show that a graduate student is on a promising research track toward the Ph.D. degree. It is a university examination with the specific purpose of demonstrating that the student is clearly an expert in those areas of the discipline that have been specified for the examination, and that he or she can, in all likelihood, design and produce an acceptable dissertation