Do medical students use pen or pencil?

Are there cases where Japanese students commit suicide using their pen/pencil during entrance exams?

• I have heard that japanese students commit suicide during difficult entance exams by thrusting their heads onto their pen/pencil because they fear they are failing. Is this just a myth?

• Answer:

  No, but sturdnents in Japan do commit suicide for that reason(more often than in the US). Right now, students are killing themselfs because of bullying.(pretty often.)