Terence Tao was 18 I believe when this takes place. He had completed about a year of graduate work at Princeton when took his General Exam. An oral test to pr

Terence Tao was 18 I believe when this takes place. He had completed about a year of graduate work at Princeton when took his General Exam. An oral test to proceed with his PhD at Princeton. It's apparently a tradition at Princeton to write up your experience with the general exam, and here is Terence Tao's. I wish I had written up my writtens (in CS) after I had taken them, but unfortunately now I just recall a question or two -- not that anyone would want to read mine. :-)