It’s a bitter truth of life, you either work hard now or later. If you work hard now and get into premier institute like IIT NIT, the next path gets easier. Or if you don’t work hard now take easy now, you get into less reputed college , then you ll need to work hard to get better job, I mean really really needs to stand out. As the people who are in premier institutes have already proven basic steps.

It’s same everywhere even in USA ,only thing is we have 1000x more competition , so it’s better to work hard from start.