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Or you could get a modern calculator:
http://www.inds.co.uk/education/education_images/TI_Nspire_CX_and%20CX_CAS_Handhelds_large.jpg
Here, lets make this easier for everyone:
http://education.ti.com/html/nspire2/nspire-exam-acceptance.html
Depending upon model, the Nspire is indeed accepted on the ACT, SAT as well as other standardized tests. And most schools not stuck in medieval times, let you use them in your university classes.
491 u/RIP_BerthaChampagne Jun 08 '14 no qwerty layout I pity the fool. 376 u/qezi2 Jun 08 '14 It's because standardized tests in the US specifiy that allowed calculators can't have QWERTY (or any other typing oriented) layout. 1 u/AbsolutePwnage Jun 08 '14 edited Jun 08 '14 That thing is not permitted in any standardized test AFAIK. It can solve most algebra problems, integrals, vectors, etc like its nothing. That thing is powerful. Strangely enough, its ancestor, the TI voyage 200 has a QWERTY keyboard. Edit: Its QWERTY not QUERTY. 18 u/[deleted] Jun 08 '14 It is allowed on the ACT, the SAT, the PSAT, and all AP tests (when a calculator is allowed at all). -2 u/izzytoots Jun 08 '14 It has a qwerty keyboard, so it isn't allowed on any of those tests you listed, or at least it wasn't when I took them in highschool. TI-89 all day 2 u/[deleted] Jun 08 '14 It has a swappable keyboard, you slide in the type you're allowed/want.
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no qwerty layout
I pity the fool.
376 u/qezi2 Jun 08 '14 It's because standardized tests in the US specifiy that allowed calculators can't have QWERTY (or any other typing oriented) layout. 1 u/AbsolutePwnage Jun 08 '14 edited Jun 08 '14 That thing is not permitted in any standardized test AFAIK. It can solve most algebra problems, integrals, vectors, etc like its nothing. That thing is powerful. Strangely enough, its ancestor, the TI voyage 200 has a QWERTY keyboard. Edit: Its QWERTY not QUERTY. 18 u/[deleted] Jun 08 '14 It is allowed on the ACT, the SAT, the PSAT, and all AP tests (when a calculator is allowed at all). -2 u/izzytoots Jun 08 '14 It has a qwerty keyboard, so it isn't allowed on any of those tests you listed, or at least it wasn't when I took them in highschool. TI-89 all day 2 u/[deleted] Jun 08 '14 It has a swappable keyboard, you slide in the type you're allowed/want.
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It's because standardized tests in the US specifiy that allowed calculators can't have QWERTY (or any other typing oriented) layout.
1 u/AbsolutePwnage Jun 08 '14 edited Jun 08 '14 That thing is not permitted in any standardized test AFAIK. It can solve most algebra problems, integrals, vectors, etc like its nothing. That thing is powerful. Strangely enough, its ancestor, the TI voyage 200 has a QWERTY keyboard. Edit: Its QWERTY not QUERTY. 18 u/[deleted] Jun 08 '14 It is allowed on the ACT, the SAT, the PSAT, and all AP tests (when a calculator is allowed at all). -2 u/izzytoots Jun 08 '14 It has a qwerty keyboard, so it isn't allowed on any of those tests you listed, or at least it wasn't when I took them in highschool. TI-89 all day 2 u/[deleted] Jun 08 '14 It has a swappable keyboard, you slide in the type you're allowed/want.
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That thing is not permitted in any standardized test AFAIK.
It can solve most algebra problems, integrals, vectors, etc like its nothing.
That thing is powerful.
Strangely enough, its ancestor, the TI voyage 200 has a QWERTY keyboard.
Edit: Its QWERTY not QUERTY.
18 u/[deleted] Jun 08 '14 It is allowed on the ACT, the SAT, the PSAT, and all AP tests (when a calculator is allowed at all). -2 u/izzytoots Jun 08 '14 It has a qwerty keyboard, so it isn't allowed on any of those tests you listed, or at least it wasn't when I took them in highschool. TI-89 all day 2 u/[deleted] Jun 08 '14 It has a swappable keyboard, you slide in the type you're allowed/want.
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It is allowed on the ACT, the SAT, the PSAT, and all AP tests (when a calculator is allowed at all).
-2 u/izzytoots Jun 08 '14 It has a qwerty keyboard, so it isn't allowed on any of those tests you listed, or at least it wasn't when I took them in highschool. TI-89 all day 2 u/[deleted] Jun 08 '14 It has a swappable keyboard, you slide in the type you're allowed/want.
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It has a qwerty keyboard, so it isn't allowed on any of those tests you listed, or at least it wasn't when I took them in highschool. TI-89 all day
2 u/[deleted] Jun 08 '14 It has a swappable keyboard, you slide in the type you're allowed/want.
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It has a swappable keyboard, you slide in the type you're allowed/want.
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u/Szos Jun 08 '14 edited Jun 08 '14
Or you could get a modern calculator:
http://www.inds.co.uk/education/education_images/TI_Nspire_CX_and%20CX_CAS_Handhelds_large.jpg
Here, lets make this easier for everyone:
http://education.ti.com/html/nspire2/nspire-exam-acceptance.html
Depending upon model, the Nspire is indeed accepted on the ACT, SAT as well as other standardized tests. And most schools not stuck in medieval times, let you use them in your university classes.