And honestly, it's not really about gaming the process, but succeeding in it. Gaming the process sounds to me like you are abusing some weakness in the system without doing the work required. That is not the case here imho.
For real, if you spend 100+ hours studying algorithms and system design you are not gaming anything. Gaming me would be finding out the questions before hand and memorizing the solutions.
I thought gaming was taking the optimal path, ie: min/maxing. Abusing a weakness in the system sounds more like "cheating" or "fraud."