The film focuses on Suwikrom "Per" Amaranon, a middle class Thai student in his senior year at Suankularb Wittayalai School in Bangkok, and his three friends, Big Show, Lung and Boat.

The boys weather the pressure of taking the exams and the erroneous reporting of the scores, however, and ultimately win their choice of disciplines and universities.

Producer Jira Maligool and director Soraya Nagasuwan started casting for subjects at tutor schools in the Siam Square in February 2005.

"I didn't want a student with particularly good grades or a kid who was always skipping school," the director was quoted as saying in The Nation newspaper.

"I believe Final Score, a well-meaning and fairly charming film, could push itself much further to give us a less polished reflection of the truth.

[4] Thailand-based film critic Peter Nellhaus said he felt the test result error is "given rather short shrift considering the magnitude of the number of students affected.