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Definitely not. The requirements on https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/sat/taking-the-test/calculator-policy https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/sa
by avhon1 6y ago
Definitely not. The requirements on https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/sat/taking-the-test/calculator-policy https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/sat/taking-the-tes... say:
> Only the calculators listed on this page are acceptable for the Math Test—Calculator portion of the test.
The page has a table of calculators which does not include the SwissMicros DM42. The brands present on the table are Texas Instruments, Casio, Helwett-Packard, Radio Shack, Sharp, Datexx, Microtona, NumWorks, and Smart2.
If you had one of SwissMicros scientific calculators (rather than the DM42, which is their only graphing calculator), you could try to bring it in. Farther down the page:
> Calculators permitted during testing include:
> * Most graphing calculators (see chart)
> * All scientific calculators
> * All four-function calculators (not recommended)
So you could make a solid case for bringing in a scientific calculator which doesn't have any of the disallowed features (wireless connectivity, QWERTY keyboard, touch input...), but a proctor might still tell you it's not on the list of specifically-approved calculators and therefore not allowed.
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Amusingly, some of the allowed calculators have disallowed features. Off the top of my head, the HP 50G has wireless (infrared) communication, and the HP Prime has a touchscreen.
- unsignedint 6y agoAs far as infrared communication, they didn't have problems with HP48 like 20-some years ago. i think the rationale was that it only allows limited short range communication, thus was not much of the concern. Though, I'm curious why some of those "disallowed features" exist, particularly for keyboard and touch input...
- tinus_hn 6y agoThey probably know infrared never works anyway
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- jedieaston 6y agoThey don’t want you to write down full length questions into the calculator for taking out of the test site. It’s just hard enough to type a sentence on the TI-84 that nobody would bother, but a qwerty keyboard that you could touch type on would be a different story.
- BoorishBears 6y ago> It’s just hard enough to type a sentence on the TI-84 that nobody would bother Are you sure about that...
- MereInterest 6y agoAs someone whose first experience programming was in writing a text-based adventure game on the TI-83, I beg to differ.
- dharmab 6y agoWhen I was a student, every middle school student with a TI-83+ was keeping notes in the BASIC editor, and the future programmers were all automating their work in BASIC. Teachers started wiping calculators before exams, and kids started backing up their files to the calculator's ROM to work around it. Remember, this was the age of T9 typing, we weren't gonna let the lack of a keyboard stop us...
- jimktrains2 6y agoI always found notes and books for open book tests to just make things harder. Sure, a single well made cheat sheat could be invaluable, but in general if you didn't know the material nothing was going to help you if you had to show work, which you do on all non-bubble-sheet exams.
- dharmab 6y agoMy age might be showing, but tests back then were rarely open book and largely based around memorization and essay writing.