>>11705993Maybe "out of the box" is the wrong phrase, of course the questions aren't gonna be out of the box - I'm pretty tired and have been writing wrong all night, so my thinking might not be perfectly in line. I've never sat down and tried an exam, but I've taken a look at a few of the questions and have gotten pretty far down in 3-10 minutes, at last past the "catch," of whatever problem it is before checking the answer and confirming my thinking was in line. Obviously there's much more work to be done in coming to a conclusion and formulating a proof, but the intentional of the questions don't seem too difficult to find, and I don't see how doing one question would take up to 2-6 hours at all.
This is simply based on the fact that people seem to say the difficult part of the questions come with the abstract thinking needed to figure how to actually begin the proof and write it in a way that's workable, not the writing of the proof itself.
