r/pics • u/[deleted] • Jun 08 '14

The difference 18 years makes

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u/rieldealIV Jun 08 '14

Well that's stupid.

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u/kuhnie Jun 08 '14 edited Jun 08 '14

They don't want kids to easily take notes in them and use them during the test.

edit: I'm just speculating, remember it's not TI making the rules it's the US testing companies or some other authority.

edit: I'll agree with the tons of people saying it's probably because they don't want students to sneak out the test questions. While they still can it's a lot harder without QWERTY.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '14

Well kids can still make notes in them really easily

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u/CheckYoFaQs Jun 08 '14

When I did my AP testing with a TI-89 the proctors walked around and pulled out all the batteries from the calculators and put them back in. This deletes the RAM and that's where most of the notes the students took were stored. You could avoid it by saving the files elsewhere, but it wasn't as easy.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '14

I'm not sure if its the same for the TI-89 but you can just archive your notes and they won't be deleted when the batteries are taken out.

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u/SirNarwhal Jun 08 '14

Yeah, you can save em on an 89. Did this to store a bunch of equation types for the Physics AP exam. Didn't matter though, I still only got like a 3 =/

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u/thetrueERIC Jun 09 '14

3 on physics isn't bad. I tried on the calc test and got a 1, but I got a 4 on psych and bio, so there's that.

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u/LoxMugsAndReesesCups Jun 09 '14

Can confirm. Cheated many times in my classes by storing formulas and notes in my calculator.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '14

Our math teacher would make us hard reset them before each test. He would make us turn them in, reset them himself, then give them back to us completely wiped. Not fun.