It's more like the ability to make decisions. Just like Kohn says being a good candidate does not necessarily come from a person's intelligence (3). The ability to memorize things can be a great tool for people who just want to get a grade or want to pass a course and forget everything later, but it has its drawbacks in real-life situations and doesn't create a critical thinker. Critical thinking is more about application rather than just testing. Practical and successful use of critical thinking makes a person a critical thinker, along with reading and learning about various different topics makes our memory sharper. Over the past few years, universities have become increasingly competitive and students have become increasingly open-minded and aware of their abilities based on critical thinking. Students analyze and understand a problem and have different ways of approaching the solution. A good example of critical thinkers can be scientists and researchers who use their critical thinking ability developed in school and use it in their work to complete the assigned task along with discovering something new for humanity which is more efficient and