<p>I just found out right now that we are not allowed to use scientific calculators on tomorrow's exam. What sucks is, well I just found out the day before the test and our teacher has been telling us all along that we are allowed to use scientific calculators. She even smuggled some into our exam room! </p>
<p>My question is, what will happen if we do use our scientific calculators, in a case where we have absolutely no way of getting a regular calculator? Will our scores be cancelled? Will we be kicked out? </p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>I would suggest asking math teachers or friends if they have regular calculators and borrowing ones from them, or go to Walmart, Walgreens, etc. From what I can remember from taking the test (which isn’t much), you don’t need the calculator for very much anyway… It’s best to not take the risk and bring a scientific calculator because best case scenario, it gets confiscated, but there’s a chance that your scores will be cancelled and you’ll get kicked out, especially if you already started using it on the test.</p>
<p>Haha, the AP Bio teachers at my school told everyone that scientific calculators were allowed, so everyone brought one. I didn’t, because I checked the collegeboard website. It was pretty hilarious. The proctor just confiscated all the scientific calculators.</p>
<p>Did they recently redesign biology? It’s been a few years since I took it, but I don’t remember any math at all on the exam.</p>
<p>^
Chi-square tests and Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium.</p>
<p>I had a four-function calculator in the bottom of my purse that I got from the dollar store a million years ago, and that was all I had. The zero key was broken so I had to type in 9 + 1 when I wanted 10. Ugh.
There wasn’t much math, though.</p>