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> Honestly I expected it to go over far more advanced topics than these, most of these are covered in the last year of high school over here.

Opening sentence: The goal of this document is to present an introduction to probability and markets in what we hope is a fairly intuitive and accessible way.



Basic reading and comprehension is not covered in his last year of high school it seems.


right no I guess thats not what I meant to say, rather that I expected any learning material from Jane Street(which has some really rigorous interviews) to give a better heads-up to the type of thinking thats required to do well in those interviews.


> type of thinking thats required to do well in those interviews

They have a whole page dedicated to that: https://www.janestreet.com/join-jane-street/interviewing/

Attention to detail and clear communication, including good grammar and spelling, are probably important.




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