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Doesn't seem it to me. It seems like they place a lot of emphasis on abstraction and pathological cases, but that's how you learn shit.
I do mostly pure courses as well, so it's no suprise.
The main difference is that you're supervised and lectured by very intelligent people, and the questions you are given are not generally aimed to help you pass an exam, they're given because they're "interesting" cases mathematically.