India is pretty much the same, I hate it here. I absolutely loathe memorizing useless nonsense to fill pages in exams, I used to spend so much time doing assignments all on my own (I figured I was there to study, might as well get to learn something) while the rest of the class copied from one source. Used to create my own code from scratch while others copied off the Internet. Used to mind my own business in exams while people wanted to cheat off each other. You would think I got better grades, but nope we got graded on how well liked you are by the professors, and I am a bit of an asshole and skipped lots of classes because they weren't really teaching anything properly and I felt like it was a waste of my time, I just used to stay at home, try to study topics I felt like sometimes or just goofed off. I finally gave up in the fourth semester and started copying stuff and what not, but still didn't feel like cheating on exams because I wanted to find out where I stood and also because it didn't really matter, I gave an electronics (Microprocessors iirc) exam without sleeping the night before or studying anything except a couple of topics and I just kept on repeating the stuff I knew randomly just to fill the pages, I was afraid I would fail the final after I left the exam hall, I got a fucking C, that was the final nail in the coffin. I spent the rest of my time studying what I wanted, took up so many things and couldn't finish anything because there were still assignments and projects to submit and exams to pass, but I'm slowly coming around to it though. Everything I learned in those four years was all me, but the shitty part is I only know the basics, I feel horribly inadequate in front of all the professionals I see on programming subreddits, so I just lurk and Google whatever they talk about and try reading up on it. I really wish I had the money to go abroad and study properly (or a decent enough cgpa to get accepted into a good university). I'm sorry for such a big rant, felt like my experience was relevant here so I just shared it.