Syria’s June Exam Season Brings Scheduled Internet Blackouts
To curb cheating during national exams, Syria is enforcing planned Internet shutdowns throughout most of June. The restrictions align with the official exam timetable, cutting off connectivity for several hours on each exam day.
Traffic data from Cloudflare Radar shows the impact clearly: the country’s Internet usage falls to near zero during each scheduled exam window. The outages begin at approximately 0100 UTC (0400 local time) and last until around 0530 UTC (0830 local time), covering the hours just before exams start—likely to prevent coordinated answer-sharing.
The pattern is already visible for the first two exams on the calendar. Live monitoring remains available for the remaining seven exam periods via the Cloudflare Radar Syria page, allowing observers to track each subsequent outage in real time.
