Pictures of students wearing alleged "anti-cheating hats" during school tests have circulated around the web via social media in the Philippines, igniting amusement.
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Understudies at one school in Legazpi City were approached to wear headgear that would forestall them looking at others' papers.
Many answered by making custom made contraptions out of cardboard, egg boxes and other reused materials.
Their tutor told the BBC she had been looking for a "fun way" to ensure "integrity and honesty" in her classes.
Mary Happiness Mandane-Ortiz, a teacher of mechanical designing at Bicol College School of Designing, said the thought had been "truly powerful".
It was carried out for late mid-term tests, which were sat by many understudies at the school in the third week of October.
Prof Mandane-Ortiz said her underlying solicitation had been for students to make a "basic" plan out of paper.
She was enlivened by a procedure purportedly utilized in Thailand a few years beforehand.
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Prof Mandane-Ortiz said her engineers-in-training took the thought and went for it - at times advancing complex headgear in "only five minutes" with any garbage they tracked down lying around.
Others wore caps, head protectors or Halloween covers to satisfy the brief.
A line of the teacher's Facebook posts - showing the young people wearing their intricate manifestations - earned a great many preferences surprisingly fast, and pulled in inclusion from Filipino news sources.
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They additionally supposedly propelled schools and colleges in different pieces of the country to urge their own students to assemble anti-cheating headwear.
Prof Mandane-Ortiz said her tutees performed better this year, having been inspired by the severe assessment conditions to concentrate on extra hard.
A significant number of them completed their tests early, she added - and no one was caught cheating this year
