Well, perhaps he was the highest type of competitive examinee, who can learn everything and forget everything.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
At first the examinee will need to have the Board and Counters before him; but he will soon learn to dispense with these, and to answer with his eyes shut or gazing into vacancy.
"Symbolic Logic"
Lewis Carroll
So does the over-read examinee.
"An American at Oxford"
John Corbin