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> You could get a full answer sheet online from a cram school website before the exam was over (these exams are hours long) I'm chuckling imagining the 6 hour
by throwaway81523 5y ago
> You could get a full answer sheet online from a cram school website before the exam was over (these exams are hours long)
I'm chuckling imagining the 6 hour Putnam exam getting flash solved like that.
- lhorie 5y agoMy understanding is it was an all-hands-on-deck, divide-and-conquer thing. The big brand cram schools had literally hundreds of teachers whose only jobs was preparing students for admission exams. They could easily have each question solved by 5 different teachers in parallel.
- throwaway81523 5y agoI'm STILL chuckling imagining the 6 hour Putnam exam getting flash solved like that.