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by eli_gottlieb 3856 days ago
>Timed exams test for speed, which is not something that matters in real mathematics (if you can prove a theorem in one week vs. two it doesn't really matter),

Moreover, some conjectures don't get proved as theorems for decades or centuries, and even after such long periods of time, the conjecture might still sometimes be refuted or proved independent of the axiom framework.