I know enough of the art of bullshittery to recommend a general strategy.<p>If you don&#x27;t know to respond to a question that does not have an objectively correct answer, first transform it into a question that you can answer, then answer <i>that</i> question instead.<p>For an example of how this works, just watch any political debate or interview with a politician.  In any venue where the questions are not known in advance, the speaker prepares a limited set of possible responses, then weasels from the actual question to the closest possible prepared response before rattling off whatever that may be.<p>So rather than memorizing key ideas from all famous philosophers, you learn about 3 things about just Nietzsche, then preface your show-off response with a sidestep and a hand-waving shuffle from Weber to Nietzsche.<p>It&#x27;s a lot easier to do when the questions are bullshit in the first place.  And on a civil service exam, I&#x27;m pretty sure I&#x27;d also intentionally add a slightly wrong &quot;duck&quot; somewhere in my answers, so the examiner can feel intellectually superior to me while marking me down for it.  The impression you want to convey is &quot;this person is smarter than the other applicants, but not as smart as I am.&quot;