Hello!
I’m currently in 8th grade and have just started to prepare for the SAT. After browsing through some information regarding the test, I’ve stumbled upon this:
Calculator Rules;
- You can only use certain kinds of calculators. See “Approved Calculators” below for details.
- You can’t share your calculator.
- If you use your calculators to share or exchange information during the test, or to remove test questions or answers from the test room, you’ll be dismissed and your scores canceled.
- You won’t be required to clear the memory in your calculator.
- If you’re using a calculator with a large (characters one inch or more high) or raised display that might be visible to other test-takers, you’ll be seated at the discretion of the test supervisor.
Specifically, I’m interested about this point:
- You won’t be required to clear the memory in your calculator.
So my math teacher currently allows us to use calculators to save information (formulas… etc) for easy access, so I know my way around using my calculator (TI Nspire CX). So does this mean College Board is explicitly allowing us to store and archive ANYTHING that can possibly aid us on the Math Calc portion of the test? For example one useful tool could be using the built-in programming language in order to create solvers etc which would simply display the answer after I plug in a few values.