<p>I hear there are dictionary apps for the Ti-89. </p>
<p>How is this even remotely possible when the calculator only has around 150kb of user-accessible ram? What is that like enough for 2 to 3 full length word documents?</p>
<p>Questions like this make me wonder whether College Board should prohibit the use of calculators on the SAT reasoning test. The increased functionality of graphing calculators makes it too easy to cheat.</p>
<p>Calculators should be “zeroed out” prior to test-taking. By “zeroed out” I mean that all software apps installed on top of the basic operating system should be erased. Such apps give some students an unfair advantage. Many students know they can purchase “SAT” TI-83/84/89/etc. apps that perform algebra and solve simultaneous equations. All they have to do is enter the equation(s) properly, hit the “enter” button, and voila…there’s the answer.</p>
<p>Testing proctors are often incompetent and not very observant. They can’t be relied upon to enforce when a student can and cannot use a calculator.</p>
<p>Even if proctors made sure that students only used calculators during the Math sections…
What would stop a student from scribbling down certain words (contained within sentence completion questions at the beginning of a Critical Reading section) onto their scantron, looking up the definitions of those words in a dictionary app on their calculator during a subsequent Math section, and then selecting the correct answers in the previously completed Critical Reading section while taking a later section?</p>
<p>Something to think about…</p>
<p>I feel like it’s harder to do that ^^^^^^ than to actually learn the words…</p>
<p>You can’t use a calculator on the CR section anyhow o_o.
And no, there isn’t enough memory. You can add memory yourself, but again, you are not allowed to use one. Look at the top heading of each CR section - there’s a clear picture of a calculator crossed out.</p>
<p>There was a kid in my class, NOT SAT BUT IN MY FRESHMAN PRECALC CLASS, who hollowed out a broken Ti and put his phone in it and used the touchscreen through the opening. I wouldn’t recommend it AT ALL but it MIGHT BE SOMEWHAT RARELY IN A VERY MINUTE CHANCE OF POSSIBLY working ON THE SAT.</p>
<p>TI’s newer calculators, (N-spire CX series) have around 15mb of memory and they have a document storage system, so technically you could upload notes for during the math sections (or copy questions down), but honestly it’d be so much less risky to just learn your stuff and also you’d lose so much time searching for specific pieces of information.</p>