>Famously even if you know the answer pretty well, say because you were the original creator of the thing, but answer in a way that they can't link to the answer key, you still fail.
Which is the most ridiculous part of it. You are being examined and evaluated over trivia in a subject that the examiner likely has no idea about and where there are only 1-2 possible "correct" answers.
That's like sending a janitor to "source" surgeons by asking questions to people in white coats in a competing hospital about appendectomy.
Yet this is considered effective (and acceptable) somehow ...
Which is the most ridiculous part of it. You are being examined and evaluated over trivia in a subject that the examiner likely has no idea about and where there are only 1-2 possible "correct" answers.
That's like sending a janitor to "source" surgeons by asking questions to people in white coats in a competing hospital about appendectomy.
Yet this is considered effective (and acceptable) somehow ...