Forget Cheat ‘Sheet’ — Student Outwits Professor With Enormous ‘Cheat Poster’

Student 1, teacher 0.

In a Sept. 20 Facebook post that’s since gone viral, Beatty explained that he’d told his students that they were allowed to bring in a “3×5” cheat sheet to use during the test. Beatty, however, failed to specify the unit of measurement he was referring to. A clever student noticed the loophole ― and milked it for all it was worth.

“Appreciating the fact that (a) [the student] had the intelligence to realize this shortcoming and (b) the audacity to actually put this together and bring it in, there was no reason to not allow him to use it,” the professor said. 

Beatty expressed his bemused admiration for Bowen in the Facebook caption. 

“Well played and lesson learned for me,” he quipped. 

According to the Capital Gazette, Bowen passed the test with flying colors, getting a “high B or a low A.”  The student said that he didn’t end up relying too much on his gigantic crib sheet.

“I had to refer to the card only a couple of times, it was very big,” Bowen told the newspaper. “It was more comical than anything.”

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