denied

My reading list got denied by the exams committee. I've got to make a ton of revisions, and I need to do it before I can take my comprehensive exams and go ABD (all but dissertation). I feel a little blind-sided because I feel like my dissertation committee could have warned me if they didn't think it was good enough--could have asked me to make changes before it got to the exams committee. The exams committee wants me to add information on areas I know nothing about, which isn't going to help when I get to my exams and have to answer questions about them.

All over again, I'm feeling like I'm just not good enough to do this. I thought I was over that.