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September 3, 2017March 7, 2018 Nathan

No Bluffing

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Pro-tip for the viva: never try to bluff your way out of a tricky question. If you don’t know something, don’t try to pretend that you do and hope that you can get by.

Another pro-tip for the viva: ask questions to help unpick a tricky question. Engage with questions despite difficulties. You’re necessarily good at that by this point.

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