Suicide of S. Anitha
![Anitha standing in front of the Supreme Court of India](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Anitha_before_Supreme_Court.jpg)
The minimum eligibility cut-off for making it into the merit list was 40 percentile ( [107 to 130] out of 720 marks ) for students in the reserved category, while it was 50 percentile for general category ( [131 to 697] out of 720 marks ). Anitha scored 12.33 percentage while admission was 14.9 for reserved and 18.2 for general categories for 2018 admission.
Admission to medical colleges is based on NEET rank calculated via percentile rather than marks.
On 1 September 2017, she died via suicide by hanging. Her death created a major controversy in Tamil Nadu where the National Eligibility and Entrance Test for medical admissions was strongly opposed. She has become a cause célèbre as a victim of the system. Provided by Wikipedia
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