Student Outwits Teacher’s 3×5 Cheat Sheet

ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, MD – Never underestimate the smarts of a determined college student.

Tuesday was the first test day of the semester for assistant college professor Reb Beatty and his accounting class at Anne Arundel Community College in Maryland. As always, he let students cram as much information as they could onto a 3×5 notecard.

The problem was—he didn’t specify that cheat sheet had to be 3×5 inches.

“Today a student shows up with this,” Beatty wrote on Facebook.

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He shared a photo of a student concentrating on taking the test, but she probably had every answer she needed right in front of her. Her cheat sheet was more like a poster, stretching beyond the top of her desk.

“Sure enough, it is 3×5 … feet.”

Numbers and specifics matter. She is taking an accounting class, after all.

“As precise as I am, apparently I never specified inches and therefore yes, it was allowed,” he continued.

Score one for the college student!

“Well played and lesson learned for me,” Beatty said.

Fellow teachers, beware. The student’s ingenious idea has gone viral. As of Thursday evening, Beatty’s post had been shared more than 10,000 times.