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Common reasons proposals are rejected
Rejections tend to repeat the same few problems. Check your proposal against them before the committee does.
Start: Scope that is too big to finish or too small to count4 practices in this chapter
- 1Scope that is too big to finish or too small to countTwo opposite scope problems account for many rejections: Too big: "A complete hospital management system with AI diagnosis, billing, pharmacy and a mobile app." No team finishes this well in two…
- 2An idea that repeats existing work without adding anythingCommittees see the same titles every year: attendance systems, e-commerce stores, chatbots for university admissions. These are not banned, but a proposal that repeats one with nothing new is easy to…
- 3A vague problem, objectives that cannot be tested, or no evaluation planReviewers often reject a proposal not because the idea is bad but because they cannot tell what will be delivered. Warning signs: The problem statement talks about a whole industry or country with no…
- 4Technology chosen first, with no reason the project needs it"Blockchain-based", "AI-powered" and "metaverse" in a title attract questions, not marks. Committees regularly push back on proposals where the technology looks chosen to sound impressive rather than…
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