> You were incentivized to cram information to pass tests I thought there was a solution: teachers give good questions for homework and exams. When I was in sc

> You were incentivized to cram information to pass tests I thought there was a solution: teachers give good questions for homework and exams. When I was in school, I rarely got repeated questions. Most questions challenged my understanding of fundamentals. It's hard to believe that people who only cram can ever get decent grades in tests like IIT's JEE, China's National Entrance Exam, or Japan's university entrance exams, or Korea's national entrance exams. As for the US, it's hard to imagine that anyone can solve decently hard problems in textbooks like Jackson's Classical Electrodynamics or Cormen et el's Introduction to Algorithms (The US does not mandate challenging problems in high schools, so I use examples from college).