Three II PUC students end life in Bangalore after announcement of results

Even as the much-awaited II Pre University College (PUC) results announced across institutions in Karnataka on Tuesday saw the highest overall pass percentage in a decade, three girl students ended their lives after failing in the examinations.

Police said Preeti, a resident of Doddamavalli and a student of science in a college in City, went to the college with her mother to check her results. When she found that she had not passed, she ran home and hanged herself.

Similiarly, Archana, a student of a college on Richmond Road in Bangalore, also ended her life in her house in Domlur after realizing that she had not passed the examinations. In the third case of suicide, a girl from Kalasipalyam was reported to have ended her life after failing to clear the examinations.

Meanwhile, the II PUC results, which were announced after much dilly dallying across colleges in Karnataka, had registered a pass-percentage of 53.97, which surpasses the previous best of 52.77 per cent recorded during April 2005 examinations.

Karnataka’s Minister for Primary and Secondary Education Basavaraj Horatti said a total of 377,843 students had appeared for the examinations during April 2006. Out of them, 203,930 had cleared the exams. As usual girls have outclassed the boys by securing a pass percentage of 59.75 against the 49 per cent pass percentage recorded by boys.