Graduation thesis defense is an important form of organized, prepared, planned and evaluated papers. In order to do a good job in the defense of graduation thesis, the school, the defense Committee and the respondent (the author who wrote the graduation thesis) should make full preparations before the defense meeting. At the defense meeting, the examiner should try his best to find out whether the level shown in the paper is true or not. Students should not only prove that their arguments are right, but also prove that the teacher is wrong.

The preparation before the defense, for the school, is mainly to do the organization work before the defense. These organizational tasks mainly include: examining and approving students' qualifications to participate in graduation thesis defense, organizing defense committees, drawing up graduation thesis performance standards, and arranging defense venues.

(A) review the qualifications of students to participate in graduation thesis defense

Students who participate in graduation thesis defense must meet certain conditions, namely:

1. must be fresh graduates who have completed all the courses prescribed by institutions of higher learning and previous students who meet the relevant regulations and have been approved by the school.

2. All the courses that students have studied must be tested and passed; In a school that implements the credit system, students must obtain credits that the school allows them to graduate.

3. The graduation thesis written by students must be guided by a tutor, who signed and agreed to participate in the defense.

The above three conditions must be met at the same time, and both are indispensable. Only college students who meet the above three conditions are eligible to participate in the graduation thesis defense. On the other hand, college students who meet the above three conditions, except those who are approved under special circumstances, must defend their thesis, and they are not allowed to graduate until the defense is passed.

(2) Organizing joint defense committees or joint defense teams.

For the defense of graduation thesis, a defense committee or defense team must be established. The defense Committee is an important organizational guarantee for reviewing and fairly evaluating graduation thesis and evaluating the results of graduation thesis.

The defense Committee is organized by the school and the relevant departments entrusted by the school. The national defense commission is generally composed of three to five people, two of whom should have senior or intermediate titles, and a member with higher academic level is determined as the chairman, who is responsible for convening meetings of the national defense commission.

(C) the development of graduation thesis performance standards

After the graduation thesis defense, the defense committee shall evaluate the thesis performance according to the graduation thesis and the author's defense. In order to make the grading moderately balanced, schools should formulate grading principles or standards in advance.

Graduation thesis scores are generally divided into five grades: excellent (90- 100), good (80-89), medium (70-79), passing (60-69) and failing (below 60). The Correspondence College of the Central Party School adopts a four-level scoring system, namely excellent (equivalent to 90- 100), good (equivalent to 75-89), passing (equivalent to 60-74) and failing (below 60). See Chapter 10 of this book for the specific grading standards of Level 4.

(4) the layout of the defense venue

The venue layout of the graduation thesis defense meeting will affect the atmosphere of the thesis defense meeting and the mood of the respondent, and then affect the quality and effect of the defense meeting. Therefore, schools should pay attention to the design and layout of defense venues and strive to create a good defense environment.