Every year, more than a lakh students appear for entrance exams for engineering and medical institutions. The education system, which should nurture the aptitude of students for diverse fields, is a complete failure. This gap between the deliverables of the educational system and the demands of entrance exams, combined with the middle-class definition of success, which is becoming a doctor or an engineer, has fueled the development of entrance exam factories at Kota.

Kota, a name now synonymous with coaching institutes, was once known for reasons not even minutely related to coaching. It has now risen to become the coaching capital of India, with more than 200,000 students residing in this small city. Undergoing the emotional transitions of teenage life, these students work hard day and night to achieve a humble dream: a dream to enter a prestigious engineering or medical institute, a dream to become a doctor or an engineer, a dream to leave behind a financially constrained life, a dream that is the product of simple Indian mentality. Amidst such emotional and lifestyle challenges, a few of them succeed in getting into the premiere institutes. In fact, one-fourth of people who make it into IITs are products of one or more Kota coaching institutes. But this training to become the poster boy or girl does not completely shut out their dreams. These dreams, which may or may not be aligned with their duty to clear the entrance, are expressed in the form of scribbles here and there.

Through this project, I aim to explore the lives of students in Kota. I do not intend to show the "successful" or "unsuccessful" stories. I aspire to show the transformations a student undergoes while being factory trained to explore their dreams through the metaphor ‘The Last Page of a Notebook’. I do not wish to take the position of a judge and justify or criticise the coaching business. Rather, I wish to create sensitivity towards these emotional changes in an unbiased manner.