No peeping now! University students slip into hilarious ‘anti-cheating’ hats shaped as Angry Birds characters or crates of beer – to stop them looking at their classmates’ exam answers

A university has found a quirky way to stop students cheating on exams: by making them wear ridiculously large hats to prevent them from peeking at classmates’ answers.

The students in the Philippines wore a series of enormous “anti-cheating” hats, including caps inspired by animated characters and random objects like a case of San Miguel beer.

The students, who are studying agriculture at Batangas State University, were asked by their teacher, Angelo Ebora, to wear the novelty hats.

Almost all 70 students participated, designed their own headgear and wore it during their exam on March 19.

Bizarre photos show one student wearing a hat shaped like a giant chainsaw, another a Game Boy console hat and another a Pikachu hat.

A series of huge ‘anti-cheating hats’ were worn by the students in the Philippines

Others went for hats of cartoon characters such as Angry Birds, the Corpse Bride, a Creeper from Minecraft and Patrick from Spongebob

Others went for hats of cartoon characters such as Angry Birds, the Corpse Bride, a Creeper from Minecraft and Patrick from Spongebob.

There were also hats with anonymous masks, pictures of Einstein and a hat with the words “future farmer” written on it.

Mr Ebora wanted to help “relieve the stress of his students during their exams” while teaching them about academic integrity.

The hats prevented the students, ages 18 to 19, from looking at their classmates’ answers to copy the answers.

“I was very proud of them too,” Mr. Ebora said after seeing so many of his students had participated. The tradition reportedly goes back several years.

But while the hats may keep students from looking at others’ papers, many online pointed out that they might have been able to put cheat sheets in them.