On the last day of August 10, 2019, the deadline for college admission notices, Yi Zhanyan, a courier from the "Extreme Speed" company, rushed to the company to work, only to find that the boss was running away with the money. The salary is also gone. The employees of the company divided the company on the spot and took office supplies as their own, which can be regarded as consolation money for compensation for wage arrears. Yi Zhanyan, who is also a victim, asked the employees for the college admission notices that they failed to issue in time.

At the close of the Cultural Revolution, a group of young idealists battle for the right to return home and restart their lives after years of toil on a state run re-education farm in China.

Four students in a class are scheme to skip out on the College Entrance Exam.

This film tells the story of Fan Shiyu overcoming the difficulties on the way forward with the help and encouragement of his teachers and classmates, and finally realizing his dream through unremitting efforts.

Tooru Igarashi is a lecturer with charisma, working at a prestigious preparatory school. Recently, he drinks a lot, and his life falls apart. Maki Endo is a student at a part-time high school. Every day, she is exhausted with working multiple jobs to cover her expenses. One day, Tooru and Maki happen to meet each other. Maki wants to graduate high school to get a regular job and asks Tooru to tutor her for her test–retest. After Tooru quit his prep school job, he has lost his pride and passion for teaching but he agrees to teach Maki and get her into the University of Tokyo.

Kota, a city in North-West India famous for its coaching institutions, attracts more than 200,000 teenagers from all across the country to prepare for the undergraduate competitive exams. These students reside in cubicle sized hostel rooms and study for more than 15 hours a day for two consecutive years to crack the entrance exams for prestigious colleges that has acceptance rate of less than one percent. These students face intense insurmountable pressure from coaching institutes, peers and their families which not everyone is equipped to cope with, resulting in some students taking the extreme step of suicide.