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It's normal. You will be fine and every thing is as it should be :)
very best of luck!

Passed viva with minor amendments. I never thought this would be real for me to say- I did enjoy the viva. Both the examiners were very good and kept reassuring me. I did feel more like I was having a discussion than an examination. Wau I don’t even know what to feel

Congratulations Dr! Amazing news. I hope you are celebrating, well deserved

Read them carefully; then do them.

It's simple advice, but you're in a position now where it's (statistically) hard to *not* get a PhD.

Your examiners will be faced with the simple option - is this a PhD, or a fail. It takes a really harsh examiner to fail a PhD after minors. What you don't want to do, is give them the impression you don't care about the corrections, or haven't listened.

In general, you should always submit a secondary document explaining how you've addressed each correction you received, with a page reference to the thesis. This helps examiners massively, as they don't have to then trawl through the thesis trying to find if the correction was addressed. I'd wait until you get the list of corrections, tabulate them, then work through one-by-one, adding to the table how you addressed it.

If you find one you strongly disagree with, you could instead provide an academic argument in this table as to why, on reflection, you've not undertaken the correction, but this is one to be super-careful with, as the academic argument you provide needs to be pretty water-tight.

You can do additional corrections outside of this, but bear in mind what an examiner really cares about is a) did the candidate listen, and b) did they undertake the correction - and if not, why not. It will be - very likely - extremely painful for them if they fail you after a successful viva, so provided you show genuine effort listening to where they're coming from, and addressing the corrections, you will, almost undoubtedly, be Dr. wekkies very soon :)