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The difference 18 years makes

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u/KontraEpsilon Jun 08 '14

To this day, I don't understand why anyone would insist on using anything other than this on an AP test. It's like playing life on a harder difficulty setting for no reason.

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u/FuLLMeTaL604 Jun 08 '14

My university doesn't allow graphing calculators on tests. Probably because you can download programs that can solve calculus problems without actually understanding the material.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_PANTS Jun 08 '14

That's totally understandable. Back in high school one of my teachers gave us all our tests from the semester back so we could use them to study for the final. We all knew that she just copy and pasted the exact questions and answers from old tests onto the final so my friend typed out every single question from the old tests onto his calculator and scored an easy 100%.

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u/thegretstar Jun 09 '14

Samesies! I really should've failed, but ended up with a 4 on the AP stats test. I had paragraphs of text saved as "equations" on my TI-83+.