The qualifying exam, the specialty or specialization paper, or the comprehensive presentation of the literature on a topic of interest to you as assigned by the professors are all labels I have heard associated with the last hurdle to becoming dissertation/treatise eligible. This paper has also been referred to as SQE, SQR, CPP, CQE, and …
To Finish Your Dissertation…
"The dissertation is the monument to the moment when the committee gave up" ~ Dr. D. Barry Lumsden
To Finish Your Dissertation... 