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Algeria has off its Internet all over the country to students cheating in high school exams. Algeria's government said it to do something to stop students secretly online during nationwide school tests. All Internet service was for an hour after the of each of the exams. The government will the Internet down during the whole exam season, between June 20 and June 25. In addition, all electronic devices with Internet access have been from the country's 2,000 exam centers. Even teachers cannot phones into the exam halls. There were many problems in 2016 when test questions leaked online both before and during exams.

Algeria's Education Minister Nouria Benghabrit the Algerian newspaper Annahar that Facebook would also blocked across the country for the six days the exams were place. She said she did not doing this but she could not do nothing and opportunities to students to cheat in tests. As an added security measure, metal detectors will placed in all exam halls, and security cameras and mobile-phone blockers have set up at the printing companies where the exams are . Many students thought the government was doing the right thing. Rania Salim, 16, said it wasn't fair that students who didn't could get help in exams by using their mobile phone to .