VIJAYAWADA: A 17-year-old intermediate first year student, who was afraid of mathematics examination paper, allegedly committed suicide a day before the public examination on Wednesday. The incident, however, came to light on Thursday.
According to the police, the minor girl, resident of Srinivasa Nagar in Tadigadapa here, had a phobia for mathematics. She was not sure if she would pass the mathematics examination. The police said the girl had confided to her parents that she would not clear the mathematics paper. The girl had been upset since the intermediate examinations started earlier this month. The mathematics paper was scheduled for May 11 but the state government had postponed it in view of the supercyclone in the Bay of Bengal.
