<p>Anyone here has experience with using this on the SAT I or II? I know its allowed, but how helpful is it?</p>
<p>nope, you can do the SATs on ti-30 calculators. people buy it because they need to use it in high school calc classes, but everything on the SAT is really basic.</p>
<p>There’s nothing hard on the SAT, so you wouldn’t be using any of the advanced functions anyways…except maybe solve. Now solve is pretty handy, but it’s liveable without it.</p>
<p>^Seconded. I only used solve once on the SAts in March though. It saved time, but certainly wasn’t an essential.</p>
<p>I actually got to the point where I used the solve function just for the fun of going like “In your face CollegeBoard, you want me to do the linear algebra, but I have a TI-89”</p>
<p>it’s the best when a lot of the people brought scientific calculators… you can quietly know that “solve” makes life just a little easier for you.
just a question, though, any experience of using a ti-89 for Math level 2? Does it help exponentially?</p>
<p>My TI-84 has a “Solve” - is it different from the 89’s solve?</p>
<p>Anyways I just use it to say time on logs, trig equations, etc…</p>
<p>Technically, no. The Ti-89 has the same exact “Solve” function - different from the other solve( function. The 89’s solve( function is just more user friendly, and can provide you with multiple outputs.</p>
<p>I’m all for the 89 in AP Calcs, Physicses, and Stats, but I really found it quite useless on both the Reasoning and the Math II. You can code in probability formulas in case you forget them, which is nice sometimes. I didn’t do it, but that’s the only thing I can even think of.</p>
<p>I brought a TI-84 to the SAT I and used it twice to check multiplication. A 4-function calculator would have served the same function quite nicely.</p>