In a note discovered by the police at the victim's home, she had cited poor performance in a test and sustained academic pressures among the reasons for her decision to take her own life.
Adding to the horrifying series of school girl deaths in Tamil Nadu over the past couple of weeks, a Class 11 student died allegedly by suicide at her home in Sivakasi yesterday.
The body of a class 12 girl student of a government-aided senior secondary school in Tamil Nadu's Tiruvallur was found hanging in her hostel room on Monday, however, the police say they did not find any note.
Thousands of people from the Periyanesaalur village in Tamil Nadu joined the family in the funeral of the class 12 student whose body was found in the hostel premises in Tamil Nadu's Kallakurichi.