Anne Arundel Community College freshman Elijah Bowen was taught in his accounting class to sweat the details.

So that’s why he decided to bring a 3-foot-by-5-foot index card into his accounting test last week. And a few hours later, the Friendship resident is the internet’s new social media star with a Facebook post from his teacher, Reb Beatty, that has been shared more than 28,000 times.

Beatty wrote that he allows students to use 3x5 notecards on the first test day of a semester. But what Beatty didn’t realize was he didn’t specify in his syllabus and notes that the 3x5 card must be inches, not feet.

“As precise as I am, apparently I never specified inches and therefore yes, it was allowed,” Beatty wrote in his Facebook post. “Well played and lesson learned for me.”

Oh, and Bowen passed the test.

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

—Chase Cook, Baltimore Sun Media Group