A college has taken drastic action in an try to end pupils from cheating in exams-0banning watches.

Monkton Combe Senior College introduced the no-watch policy amid fears that students could use digital watches to improved their grades.

The ban comes after teachers found out about a fresh variety of observe currently being offered online, which can be especially intended to assist folks cheat.

Marketed as 'cheap tudor watches', the products can keep text and photographs that are displayed around the watch's screen.

They even have an 'emergency button', which makes it possible for students to rapidly switch from hidden text to a typical digital clock encounter.

Joe Sidders, deputy head on the school in Bath, Somerset, learned regarding the watches from an exam officer who sent him a hyperlink to an advertisement on Amazon.

The selection was taken to include watches on the checklist of electronic units confiscated from pupils ahead of they enter an exam area.

Mr Sidders stated: "We by now consider away mobile phones andbuy tissot watchesand individuals sorts of factors that happen to be meant for communication outdoors from the examination hall.

"But this really is practically a device sold like a cheating assist. They're quite indistinguishable from a standard observe."

Mr Sidders mentioned he's not mindful of any Monkton School college students owning certainly one of the watches or utilizing one particular to cheat, but decided to ban them to eliminate the temptation.

He explained: "We desired to consider the accountability far from them, specially from the context of the pressure that they're beneath to complete."

The school is but to inform its students and their parents about the new policy.

Mr Sidders explained he wanted mothers and fathers and other colleges for being aware of the truth that cheatingpatek pillippe watches replicaare available online so that they've the chance to intervene.

College students caught which has a cheating watch might be disqualified from an exam or qualification.

The Joint Council for Qualifications, speaking on behalf of exam boards, stated: "A candidate observed in possession of something employed for cheating-like these watches-would be reported towards the awarding organisation whose examination was affected.

"This could result in the student getting disqualified from the exam as well as general qualification."

Mr Sidders mentioned that there would be a public outcry if higher street retailers started offering devices to assist students to cheat in exams.

"I think there should be pressure on Amazon to cease marketing them," he added.