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i wont claim to be a serious badass, but taking these exams without a calculator is very doable when you consider how the questions are scored. I forgot my calc
by bllguo 7y ago
i wont claim to be a serious badass, but taking these exams without a calculator is very doable when you consider how the questions are scored. I forgot my calculator for ap phys C and just left all my answers in symbolic form without numerically evaluating them. If your steps are correct you get the vast majority of the credit regardless
- derekp7 7y agoFor one of my college trig class, there was at least one test that was "no calculator allowed". In this case, all the answers were symbolic, or used specific angles that had results that you can write out using whole numbers (or at least whole numbers under the sqrt symbol). I asked the instructor, and was allowed to use a slide rule, however (my trusty Picket N1010-ES)
- droithomme 7y ago> i wont claim to be a serious badass AP Physics C without a calculator qualifies you! Some of the most fun teachers had open-book open-note any-calculator tests for various technical subjects, but the questions were carefully designed so that if you stopped to rifle through a book or notes or pull out the calculator, you would run out of time. Everything was set up to be symbolically done faster if you knew your stuff. In addition many students hearing open-book open-note simply don't bother to study and thus blow the test that way despite having too many resources available to distract them during the test.