> capable of dealing with inherently novel/theoretic problems or problems you've never seen before
To be fair, these were "Data Structures 101" type questions. One was literally design a graph structure and write a deep-copy procedure, and that's it. Not exactly "novel." Since I haven't done these in ages, and didn't even pay that much attention when I had the class, I did badly.
Another was a simple string manipulation question that I bombed because I was already stressed out from failing the first so badly, similar to your situation.
To be fair, these were "Data Structures 101" type questions. One was literally design a graph structure and write a deep-copy procedure, and that's it. Not exactly "novel." Since I haven't done these in ages, and didn't even pay that much attention when I had the class, I did badly.
Another was a simple string manipulation question that I bombed because I was already stressed out from failing the first so badly, similar to your situation.