During exams, students in the Philippines wear anti-cheating caps

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• Oct 24, 2022 | Sourav Boruah

What is the most unusual approach to prevent exam cheating? Have you ever envisioned...

Digital Desk: Bicol
University College of Engineering students in Legazpi City was challenged to
create their own headwear.

What is the most unusual
approach to prevent exam cheating? Have you ever envisioned hats that seem like
blinders or that remind you of Halloween? Images of students wearing various
coloured and shaped hats are going viral in the Philippines. These were 'anti-cheating'
headwear designed to keep students' eyes from wandering during tests.

To
deter cheating during midterm exams, students at the Bicol University College
of Engineering in Legazpi City were required to create their own headgear. Mary
Joy Mandane-Ortiz, a faculty member at the university, had assigned the
students the responsibility of designing their own hats with creative freedom.
According to reports, she was inspired by a Thai university.

Ortiz
shared photographs of her students on Facebook. Some of the students in the
images are wearing helmets, while others are wearing huge hats and cardboard
cartoon figures. One of the pupils was dressed as a cardboard minion, while
others were dressed as egg boxes. Another appeared to be wearing his
undergarments on his head.

"I truly love and
[am] proud of my students because their engineering midterm exams can be
difficult and stressful, but they managed to bring some colour and fun,"
Ortiz wrote in one of her photos. Students, thank you very much. You make me
happy."

 The photographs
have gotten a lot of attention. While humorous, it remains to be seen whether
inspiration will spread.