After nine years of compulsory education, students are about to graduate from high school. They will take the entrance exam to enter a key university. The exam will determine whether or not they will be able to get a master's degree or a Ph.D. In the meantime, they will have to pass a series of entrance exams to get into the top universities in the country. The narrator tells us that the exam is the most important day of his life because it will determine his fate for the rest of his days.