<p>I took the November SAT II for literature, math 1, and math 2. I brought what I thought was a fully functional scientific calculator but it was incapable of doing logs or exponents, which became a serious issue during the test. As I took the test I realized that having a graphing calculator was a serious advantage. Overall I was able to do fine on Math 1 with these handicaps, but math 2 really suffered. My scores were 750 Math 1 and 690 math 2. My question for y'all is how much of a score drop did my poor choice of calculators cause? Is it worth retaking with a TI-Nspire?</p>
<p>scientific calculator can do logs and exponents, are YOU sure you knew how to use the calc?</p>
<p>You can evaluate exponential functions. Logarithms are a little trickier on scientific calculators since most of them only do base 10 or base e, so you will have to use change-of-base.</p>
<p>I agree with shauryagupta, do you <em>really</em> know how to use the calculator?</p>