Calculator Use
The College Board states that a calculator "may be useful or necessary" for about 40-50% of the questions on the test. The College Board also encourages the use of a graphing calculator over a scientific calculator. It also says that this test was "developed with the expectation that most students are using graphing calculators."
Students are not permitted to use calculators on the Mathematics Level 1 test that have a QWERTY format keyboard, that require an electrical outlet, that make noise, use paper tape, that have non-traditional methods of input (such as a stylus), or those that are part of a communication device (such as PDA's, laptops, or cell phones). Calculators that have slanted screens or large displays (numbers 1 in. or more) are seated at the discretion of the test supervisor.
Read more about this topic: SAT Subject Test In Mathematics Level 1
Famous quotes containing the word calculator:
“Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. The most exact calculator has no prescience that somewhat incalculable may not balk the very next moment. I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)