Webdesk: After the results for grades 11 and 12 released nine students in India killed themselves. As well as two others tried to kill themselves.
There were as many as a million students who took the test. But only 61% passed in grade 11 and 72% in grade 12.
After the exam results released on Wednesday by the Andhra Pradesh Board of Intermediate Examination, nine students killed themselves within 48 hours.
Reports say that B Tarun, a 17-year-old student from Srikakulam district, jumped in front of a moving train and killed himself. Another Dandu Gopalapuram student in the first year of intermediate school “disheartened” after failing most of his papers.
A Akhilasree, a 16-year-old girl who in her first year of intermediate school, also killed herself because she was upset that she failed some classes. Anusha, a 17-year-old girl, jumped into a lake and drowned. In the same district, a boy killed himself by eating pesticide.
Another teen, B Jagadeesh, killed himself by hanging himself. Because he was sad about getting low grades in intermediate.
The news comes at a time when there are more college suicides in India. This year, four students at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) took their own lives on different campuses.
After the sad event, police and psychologists told the students that they shouldn’t do anything so extreme because they still had their whole lives ahead of them and could turn their failures into successes.
Many students get depressed after getting low grades or failing an exam. So this isn’t the first time something like this has happened.
