The existence of Filipino time

I very much agree with what the teacher did. That way, the students will know the importance of going to an exam earlier than the usual or even just on time. If you are so bent in taking the exams , you will do your best not to be late to it. Good if it is just an ordinary everyday class.

We Filipinos are very patient and I think we can say we love the word "WAIT" as well. We sometimes even expect the others to be late during appointments and we have adjusted to those scenarios. However, that's a practice that we need to curb especially if you're going to work for an American company or even in any companies for that matter. If your classmates don't care about the value of punctuality, sooner or later they'll learn it when they're employed by a company with a strict attendance rule.

I completely understand why your teacher did that. However she should at least make an exception. She needs to understand that probably these students were late because they studied hard late at night. Also, traffic here in our country in unpredictable.

Wow... There are this Filipino time too? Initially I taught there are only this Malaysian time. How surprise am I to know that there is another country that being adapt to this sort of lateness. I hate late, and most of the time I try to make myself on time. I hate to wait and even if my household are not yet ready. Rather than discipline, I rather call it an excuse. They want to use it as excuse. And what always good about this sort of time, coming late go back early when it come to working hours. And most of it happens in the goverment sector. Sometimes I wonder why it is very difficult to be on time. Everybody have 24hrs a day and yet they can make it on time. really we need to teach our kids to be on time because it is the only way we can stop this problem. By teaching our kids, we need to set a good example ourselves and always be on time.

Yes the Filipino time still exist in our culture call it "maniana habbit" is always problem of every Filipino. They admit or not that the main reason behind why Filipino is very slow in progress. In my view and experienced I've learn a lot when I working abroad because being functual and on time in the office or appointment is very important. Sometimes how you treat the time is reflecting your character.

i was once like your classmates before though with a slight difference but still suffer punctuality issues.. i was always late during lecture and my teacher do the same as your teacher does, so basically i could not attend class, though i am really ahead of time during exam, but the downside to it was i always get the lowest score.. i continued to do my habit until the time i received my evaluation card which was really depressing over my part of having a grade of 78 on math since that was my first subject.. upon seeing it, i come to my senses and have change my habit, since then i have improved, my grades went up, first grading i got 78, in the second i got 85, then my teacher applauded me with my 85 grade on the second grading so i was inspired by it and then my grades eventually went up..

Hi elsmarie! So were your classmates still allowed to take a make-up exam or something? One thing I learned about meetings, appointments or something, those who live nearer will come late unlike those who live farther who usually come early. I've proven that with my co-workers and actually, that's true for me sometimes. I think people just take advantage of the short distance that's why they still tend to get late for their appointments. Cheers.

Yes. We all should give importance to time. Being late just shows how lax we are and how much importance we are giving to the person and to the activity that we would be attending. I do hope that we all could eradicate that "Filipino Time" culture.

One of the things that I don't particularly like is when Pinoy's would use "Filipino Time" which means they would do things only when the time is almost up. I tend do be like that too specially if I have to meet up friends :) if our meeting time is 5:00 pm I would be there at 5:30pm and I am still the first one to be at the meeting place, all would be around at past 6pm. But yours is different. we should be on time at school. I never been late because I don't want to be late and walk inside the classroom when the prof is teaching already and most of my professors have pre-test so Everyone in our class are never late. I think the cure for your classmates to be on time is -- if you have professors like mine who gives pre-test every day.

This is very common,and we call it Filipino time. Better than the other famous ....n time right? We can improve ourselves,if we wanted to. But some still keep the old attitude and used to it. They will only learn their lesson once they lost an important thing or person in their life due to this behaviour. have a good day jaiho®

Unless our people can conquer this bad habit, we are doomed to lose good deals and opportunities, most people from progressive countries will not tolerate tardiness not unless they really badly need what we have to offer, otherwise they will get it somewhere else

There is not excuse to be late to an exam especially if you are near by. Ok maybe if your in the hospial or something of that nature. This happened to my class mates too when I was in college and they thought they could get away with coming in very late and maybe take the test at a later date. They just stayed up late the previous night and got drunk. Sooo those who snooze loose

Being late is so common nowadays. Aside from having so many reasons, most of us are lack of discipline. I'm a Filipino and was once worked in a foreign country and I salute them for being obedient at all times even if no one is watching. They observe traffic rules, they don't spit and smoke in public and most of all when they dine outside like in the mall(macdo, kfc...anywhere outside) they do segregate their rubbish. They make sure that the table where they dine is clean before they leave the place. Most of us are also looking forward for a corrupt-free country, we demand our high officials to do necessary action just to have that but we never think that in day to day life we are not contributing anything even in little ones. We are also responsible for this country. Let's help each other even in our own little way.

They should know better especially when taking exams :P Filipino time is ALWAYS a given when we meet people but of course, punctuality is always the best :P Most of the time I appear on friends meet-up in Filipino Time but I always make sure to appear on time during important meetings and such :P

They should have known that they are getting an exam... off course if you will take an exam you should be there on time. I do certainly side with your teacher on that one.

I ma one of the people who don't practice Filipino time. I usually don't want to be late becuase I don't want to inconvenience others and I wanted to avoid any downsides of being late (which is many, depending on the situation). You are right in thinking that your teacher wants the whole class to learn a lesson - which is always be prepared and try to step up if there are shortcomings. For an exam date, you're not only preparing yourself for the exam by studying but you should also prepare in taking the exam. Also, your teacher might think that is is unfair for the your classmates (including you) who made effort to go to the examining area to take the exam at the right time. I hope your teacher will give a chance for the latecomers to take the exam for another time

i think that your teacher just taught them a greater lesson in life that was easy to pass but very hard to achieve for all of us. They will already learn to be very early in class especially if they have exams. I applaud your teacher in doing that to them

Ya there are a lot really who are like that. Sometimes we don't follow our own regulations. But once Filipino work and live outside Philippines they tried to obey what other countrys regulations. Hope we must start here in our country before we obey with others. That is why we don't reach to the goals we alwasy wanted and always blame it to the government. Just wish and hope we must follow our regulations and ordinance.