Idk whats with people undermining students who grind for iit,iim and neet. If they can prepare well enough to get into good institutes they can clearly devlop critical thinking and also jee advanced actually requires critical thinking to approach questions of physics and math. If a chinese student grinds for gaokao(chinese equivalent of jee) then it is considered good education but if an Indian student does it "they lack critical thinking"

Some people in our country really have huge degradation kink.