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Five fatal mistakes

A friend, who was a university lecturer in mathematics, told me this story . . .

John Benton

Two students were sitting their final exams in maths. One young man was brilliant and the other was average. Not long into the exam the average student looked up and realised that he could see over the whizz-kid's shoulder and he started to craftily copy his answers. All was going well until they came to a question about which the brilliant young man scratched his head for a long time.