Which calculators are allowed in CIE examinations?

[HyDraZin3]

Is fx-991ES model allowed to be used in CIE Examinations? :?:

 

[CaptainDanger]

I guess yeah it is.... Everyone has that nowadays...

 

[AhmadArabiyat]

This is from the Examination Regulation document:
8. Calculators with any of the following facilities are prohibited and use of any such calculators will be regarded as malpractice:
• graphic display
• data banks
• dictionaries
• language translators
• retrieval or manipulation of text or formulae
• QWERT keyboards
• built-in symbolic algebra manipulations
• symbolic differentiation or integration
• capability of remote communication with other machines

If your calculator has any of these, it may not be used. The "fx-991es" has the Symbolic differentiation, so it may not be used unfortunately.

Please read the instructions for: a) Examination Regulations Regarding the Use of Calculators and Dictionaries.
b) The IGCSE/GCE Guidelines.
Search for them on Google.

 

[AhmadArabiyat]

Correction: Check your calculator upon these instructions, I just found out there is more models named "fx-991es", Sorry for that.

 

[HyDraZin3]

Can u give me the link where u have found these instructions? and if this calculator is not allowed which calculator should i buy?

 

[CaptainDanger]

PlanetMaster says this

"It should be non-graphical and non-programmable.
All Casio MS & ES are allowed."

 

[CaptainDanger]

Can u give me the link where u have found these instructions? and if this calculator is not allowed which calculator should i buy?

HERE and HERE

 

[CaptainDanger]

 

[HyDraZin3]

Is this the same thing for even igcse? and in this list fx-991es by casio is not written

 

[CaptainDanger]

Is this the same thing for even igcse? and in this list fx-991es by casio is not written

Yes I guess same for IGCSE...

and

PlanetMaster says this

"It should be non-graphical and non-programmable.
All Casio MS & ES are allowed."

This is what Planet Master said... SO no need to worry... Do take two calculators one can run out of battery.... So you can use the other...

 

[AhmadArabiyat]

http://www.britishcouncil.org/regulatio ... naries.doc

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=w ... dw&cad=rja

These are the 2 links, read the documents well.

 

[HyDraZin3]

I dont think fx-991es is allowed after seeing these posts cuz with that calculator we can do integration as well as differentiation

 

[AhmadArabiyat]

Also, this calculator can do Quadratic equations, I don't think that would be allowed too.

 

[CaptainDanger]

These are allowed too


AURORA
SC 550

FIAMO
SC 6
SC 20

CANON
F-715S

CASIO
FX 82AU
FX 82MS
FX 85MS
FX 95MS
FX 95 SG Plus
FX 350MS
FX 820MS
FX 992S

HEWLETT PACKARD
HP 8S
HP 9S
HP10S
HOSEKI
H-1030
H-1031

SHARP
EL 509VM
EL 509 W
EL 509WM
EL 509WS
EL 546VA
EL W531S

TEXAS INSTRUMENTS
TI 30XIIB
TI 30XIIS
TI 34 II

 

[CaptainDanger]

I dont think fx-991es is allowed after seeing these posts cuz with that calculator we can do integration as well as differentiation

Ummmm... But we don't deal with those in IGCSE or O- Level Maths?

Also, this calculator can do Quadratic equations, I don't think that would be allowed too.

Now for that yeah I guess then Its not allowed.... Though for Maths paper only... You can use it for Chem or Physics...

 

[burndtjamb]

Are the invigilators supposed to check which calculator you have? I think it's unfair if the centre doesn't inform you beforehand that you can only have certain calculators.

 

[CaptainDanger]

Well CIE does give the Handbook to all centres for this and all other information... You can check one HERE Check the 3.3.3 topic there....

 

[CaptainDanger]

I dont think fx-991es is allowed after seeing these posts cuz with that calculator we can do integration as well as differentiation

I found the answer there...

Check my last post....


They say "THe Calculator must not be able to manipulate algebra, it must be purely """numerical""" integration/differentiation."

Symbolic ones are not allowed!!!! Numerical ones okay....

 

[AhmadArabiyat]

Ummmm... But we don't deal with those in IGCSE or O- Level Maths?

You can actually use differentiation for a kind of a trick for tangents, to find their gradient and draw them more accurately in graphs, kinda real complicated to understand on a forum, you need to take C1 to know it.

Our teacher gave us C1, because we finished the Syllabus last year.

 

[CaptainDanger]

But those guide lines say that Numerical ones are allowed....