Good luck on your next exam! I’m prepping for my qualifying exams now, but yours sound way more stressful! For ours (biomedical engineering) we write a NIH style grant proposal of our work, and then also do an oral presentation of that with Q+A from the committee.
Thank you! That sounds extremely helpful. I think a lot of departments are starting to lean more toward those types of exams so that way at the end you have something to show for it! Good luck with your exams! Studying for me was stressful at first but really calming toward the end. I suppose that is the calm before the storm so to speak haha.