> Is being a student so hard in India that failing an exam causes people to commit suicide? It actually is & not limited to India but all neighboring countries

> Is being a student so hard in India that failing an exam causes people to commit suicide? It actually is & not limited to India but all neighboring countries. Most parents make it very clear from early childhood that if a child doesn't have "best grades", they are worthless. Some children are actually beaten at home for not getting top grade in poor families or given other traumatizing treatments so they learn to avoid failures/shame in the future(the result of which you see in this news). There is actually no concept of children psychology, so traumatizing children is a normal activity. The issue stems from the fact that, number of educated people in that side of the continent is much higher than number of "good jobs"(doctor,engineer,scientist,government employee etc.) available, so everyone competes for that small piece of the pie. Also, lots all government funded educational institutes are off-limits to a student if they are not top of their class to which alternative paths are very expensive(private college/universities) which can't be afforded by general families, so it is do or die situation overall.