"Forgive me, I couldn't do it…”: 17-Year-Old Student Dies by Suicide in Delhi After Failing JEE Exam

A 17-year-old-teen preparing for the Joint Entrance Examination, committed suicide in New Delhi on Saturday after she failed to clear the national level exam admission into top engineering colleges of the country, said the police. The teenager left a note asking her parents to forgive her for not being able to clear the examination. "Forgive me, I couldn't do it," she wrote in her suicide note.

“Yesterday, at 11:25 hrs, a PCR call regarding a girl aged 17, jumping off the roof of the 7th floor of a building in Okhla main market was received at PS Jamia Nagar. She was preparing for JEE after clearing the 12th class. She has left a suicide note citing study pressure and not meeting expectations as a reason. Proceedings under 194 BNSS are underway,” said the Delhi Police.

The incident comes three days after a second-year Master’s student at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, reportedly died by suicide late on Tuesday night. This is the fifth suicide at IIT Delhi since 2023 and the second this year. Earlier, in February, a final-year MTech student also allegedly took his own life, but his parents expressed concerns about possible foul play.