Computer Science and Engineering Ph.D. Qualifier Exam

Here are some materials for preparing for the qualifier exam. The Ph.D. qualifier exam at the Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University is ETS Major Field Test (MFT) Computer Science subject test. Check out the details of this test by the following URLs: https://www.ets.org/content/dam/ets-org/pdfs/mft/comp-sci-test-description.pdf and https://www.ets.org/mft/about/test-content.html. I strongly recommend visiting the Useful Materials page to get a sense of how the exam is structured.

My tip for preparing for this exam is to solve as many problems as possible instead of going through all the undergraduate materials in Computer Science. This is because the exam will not ask for all the materials that you have covered in undergraduate. Rather, they have a set of questions that repeats every time. I got to know this since I took this exam twice. They do make new questions for every new test but quite a lot of questions are duplicated from previous exams.

Again, I recommend solving and experiencing as many questions as you can before going to the exam and understand the questions that you have solved instead of going through all of the undergraduate materials. I'm saying this because, in my first trial, I went through all the undergraduate materials but couldn't pass the exam. In my second trial, instead of going through the undergraduate materials, I focused on previous/sample questions and tried to understand all of them. After that, I was able to pass the exam!

Useful materials