Philippines: Student 'anti-cheating' exam hats go viral

Images of students wearing alleged "anti-cheating hats" during assemblage exams person gone viral connected societal media successful the Philippines, sparking amusement.

Students astatine 1 assemblage successful Legazpi City were asked to deterioration headgear that would forestall them peeking astatine others' papers.

Many responded by creating homemade contraptions retired of cardboard, ovum boxes and different recycled materials.

Their tutor told the BBC she had been looking for a "fun way" to guarantee "integrity and honesty" successful her classes.

Mary Joy Mandane-Ortiz, a prof of mechanical engineering astatine Bicol University College of Engineering, said the thought had been "really effective".

It was implemented for caller mid-term exams, which were sat by hundreds of students astatine the assemblage successful the 3rd week of October.

Prof Mandane-Ortiz said her archetypal petition had been for students to marque a "simple" plan retired of paper.

She was inspired by a method reportedly utilized successful Thailand immoderate years previously.

In 2013, an representation went viral appearing to amusement a country of assemblage students successful Bangkok taking trial papers portion wearing "ear flaps" - sheets of insubstantial stuck to either broadside of their caput to obscure their vision.

Prof Mandane-Ortiz said her engineers-in-training took the thought and ran with it - successful immoderate cases innovating analyzable headgear successful "just 5 minutes" with immoderate junk they recovered lying around.

Others donned hats, helmets oregon Halloween masks to fulfil the brief.

A drawstring of the professor's Facebook posts - showing the youngsters wearing their elaborate creations - garnered thousands of likes successful a substance of days, and attracted sum from Filipino media outlets.

They besides reportedly inspired schools and universities successful different parts of the state to promote their ain students to enactment unneurotic anti-cheating headwear.

Prof Mandane-Ortiz said her tutees performed amended this year, having been motivated by the strict introspection conditions to survey other hard.

Many of them finished their tests early, she added - and cipher was caught cheating this year.