Philippines: students' clever anti-cheating hacks go viral

Visuals of college students donning 'anti-cheating hats' during exams have gone viral online in Philippines, evoking praise and amuse from users.

Students at Bicol Unviversity College of Engineering in Legazpi City were asked to wear hats or headgear that would not allow them from cheating during exam time.

The pupils then managed to come up with a variety of ideas made out of cardboard, egg boxes or simply a helmet too.

Mary Joy Mandane-Ortiz, the professor told BBC that she wanted a 'fun way' to imbibe integrity and honesty' in her class.

Mandane-Ortiz added that the idea had been really effective when her initital request had only been to the students to make a 'simple' design out of paper.

It was finally put to use during recent mid-term exams, appeared by hundreds of students at the college in the third week of October.

The professor was inspired by a technique reportedly used in Thailand some years ago.

In 2013, an image went viral showing a room of university students in Bangkok taking test papers while wearing 'ear flaps' - sheets of paper stuck to either side of their head to obscure their vision.

Mandane-Ortiz posted pictures of the idea on her Facebook profile showing the college students wearing their creations, garnering thousands of likes withing the span of a few days.

The posts attracted coverage from Filipino media outlets, reportedly also inspiring schools and universities across the country to implement the same idea with their students.

Mandane-Ortiz said that the students performed better this year, motivated by strict examination conditions to study extra hard.

Many of them finished their tests early, she added and nobody was caught cheating either.

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