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Mohnish Pabrai's Q&A session with students at the Dakshana Valley, Pune on December 26, 2022

Chai with Pabrai

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How to Solve a Question in Less Than Five Seconds

I was really surprised, you know, I said I don't know how someone can solve this question. He came to the board and wrote the proof with the most elegant approach. So his solving time I would say was less than five seconds. At that time there was the AI triple E test out of like more than 1 million kids, 1.2 million kids, his rank was 17. And when he took the IIT exam, the advanced IIT J-Advanced, that day he was running a fever. With the fever his rank was 83. Without the fever he may have been top 10, top 20 or something.

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