Master by research have no fix time frame on when you can graduate, it depend on the outcome of the research and also depend whether the examiners accept your research outcome or not. You have to give quite a numbers of presentations to your examiner to assess your research outcome and finally you have to pass your thesis/dissertation.


Dangers of master by research:

- Fail to obtain proper research outcome due to poor supervisor or poor facilities of the university.

- Unable to pass presentation due to lack of presentation skills of the candidate or unprofessional examiner who have no experience on that field (very common, therefore candidate need to have good presentation skill to avoid misunderstood).

- Fail to maintain a good relationship with the supervisor (or bad supervisor that impossible to communicate), and finally stop study. Change supervisor is also possible but may need to start everything all over again.