How many students commit suicide from a low ENTER?

[boysenberry]

From time to time we often hear in the media of a few teenagers/adolescents (young people) mucking around and stabbing themselves in night clubs from a fit of rage or uncontrollable behaviour caused by binge drinking. These incidences become increasingly noticeable during the Christmas/New Year's celebrations and the death tolls go on the rise. But how many people actually die from VCE? How many people choose to commit suicide due to a low ENTER score? Is this a common occurrence? When was the last time a student killed themselves because of this? I never hear about these deaths in Victoria (at least not from the news) but I've heard of students killing themselves for similar reasons in other countries. For example Japan, Taiwan and Korea all have high suicide rates associated with pushing students too hard. I think it's stupid to kill yourself because of this. Any thoughts on the matter?

[GerrySly]

A few people die around here in the exam period (stress from exams + driving home). Driving half an hour or more to school before an exam is not healthy. Another died because he was late to exam, sped lost control and plowed into a tree.

Can't say I've heard of people dying because of low ENTER's though

[squance]

My sister knows of someone who committed suicide due to a low ENTER (but I don't know how low it was )

[brightsky]

Short answer, quite a lot. Refer to the statistics in the book: "Surviving year 12"

[amirite?]

Laws around publishing suicides are very strict (gives people in similar situations ideas...) so its hard to know.

You'd have to think that if someone cared so much about VCE the ENTER wouldnt be that low.

One of the reasons more pathways into courses need to be paved. Would be quite a good topic to write an essay on. To get passionate about it all you have to do is picture yourself missing out on your first preference. Grrr.

[jay1993]

It's probably more the kids that are so fixed on getting perfect scores but fail to do so by like a small amount, that get very upset and feel as though their life is over (More likely if they 'dedicated their life to the VCE). As  a result they could kill themselves...

[brightsky]

I know someone who got 99.90, missing out on like 0.5 of an aggregate, despite getting 4 50s and one 47 or something. (She got a very low score in English). Didn't commit suicide but was very depressed. Understandable though..

[i-am-bored-69]

I think doing badly in VCE may indirectly lead to suicide. Like your relationships with friends/families may worsen, you may start hanging out with the wrong crowd as a result and start doing drugs and stuff which eventually leads to your demise....

[kenhung123]

I know someone who got 99.90, missing out on like 0.5 of an aggregate, despite getting 4 50s and one 47 or something. (She got a very low score in English). Didn't commit suicide but was very depressed. Understandable though..

Does it really matter though? You can get in any course already unless your talking about fame.

[Edmund]

I know someone who got 99.90, missing out on like 0.5 of an aggregate, despite getting 4 50s and one 47 or something. (She got a very low score in English). Didn't commit suicide but was very depressed. Understandable though..

Does it really matter though? You can get in any course already unless your talking about fame.

It does matter when it comes to competitive courses such as Medicine. Some unis provide some advantages to those getting 99.95 such as guaranteed entry to some Graduate degrees.

[kyzoo]

I don't think those people care about the ability to get into any course - their sole objective is a 99.95.

[jay1993]

Does it annoy anyone how ppl that get, say for example, 99.90 yet are still pissed its not better.
If your not happy with it, i'll gladly take it.

[kyzoo]

Not really lol, I can relate to it.

[jay1993]

But c'mon, the top .1% and ur still not happy.
....Although i guess if ur used to being the no.1 at every thing u do acedemically it could be a shock to find that someone out there is better than you.

[mypurpleundercracka]

Does it annoy anyone how ppl that get, say for example, 99.90 yet are still pissed its not better.
If your not happy with it, i'll gladly take it.

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