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For those who are interested, Edward Frenkel's book "Love and Math" chronicles his personal experience of taking such a test, and being denied entrance to Mosco

For those who are interested, Edward Frenkel's book "Love and Math" chronicles his personal experience of taking such a test, and being denied entrance to Moscow State University despite superb performance in the exam. (He later got Math PhD in Harvard at age 23 and became a professor at UC Berkeley)

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Some of his story is in this article from the Notices. http://www.ams.org/notices/199910/fea-saul.pdf http://www.ams.org/notices/199910/fea-saul.pdf