You have not seen how Indians prepare for the IITJEE or for the IAS Exams.
Should these exams be abolished as well?
When I was in India I felt that most Indian students study by memorizing more than actually understanding and deducing.
Sometimes if you just twist the question a little they are not able to answer it.
I remember one day our Forensic Medicine lecturer asked us a question on bullet wounds which was not in the text book.
The students who studied by memorizing could not deduce it and only those of us who could think out of the box knew the answer.
Each country has the own way of studying but I somehow feel the deducing capacity of westerners is higher cos they tend to analyze and understand what they study and not simply mug it up.
Even recently in one of my Sanskrit manual it was advised to memorize a particular grammar rule.
I was quite shocked to see that advise cos memorization will only make us forget it later.
I didn't quite like the explanation given too so I looked up online and came across and Sanskrit website run by a Portuguese man and he gave perfect steps how to deduce and understand that grammar rule.
He has mentioned that rule was also in Latin so since he was well versed in Latin and Sanskrit..his explanation was just superb.
He had advised "never ever learn by memorizing"
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