After the epidemic, everyone was declared temporarily promoted to secondary second year
Hyderabad:
Six students, including three girls, died in Telangana on Tuesday within 24 hours of the declaration of results for Class 11 and Class 12 equivalent intermediate examinations.
Five deaths by suicide have been reported from Hyderabad, the sixth from Nizamabad.
A 17-year-old girl committed suicide at her home in Vanasthalipuram, Hyderabad, police said. In Rayadurgam, a 16-year-old girl, who was also a first year intermediate student, committed suicide. A second year intermediate student committed suicide in Panjagutta.
Two boys, two intermediate second year students, committed suicide in Neredmet and Saifabad on Tuesday.
A first year intermediate student who failed in the examination committed suicide in Nizamabad’s Armoor.
In April, a tribal student studying in a government residential school in Telangana’s Mahabubabad district committed suicide fearing that he would not score enough marks to get an MBBS seat. Gugoloth Krishna scored 892 out of 1,000 marks in his intermediate examination.
Less than two weeks ago, nine students died by suicide in Andhra Pradesh within 48 hours of the declaration of Class 11 and 12 exam results.
Telangana has a history of students dying by suicide after the declaration of intermediate results.
In December 2021, after the death of six students by suicide, the government had declared all “passed” to reduce the stress on students so that they can appear for intermediate final year exams.
After the Covid pandemic, all were declared provisionally promoted to intermediate second year and exams were held in October, with 51 per cent failing.