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Which calculators are allowed in CIE examinations?

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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.
 
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Correction: Check your calculator upon these instructions, I just found out there is more models named "fx-991es", Sorry for that.
 
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Can u give me the link where u have found these instructions? and if this calculator is not allowed which calculator should i buy?
 
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PlanetMaster says this

"It should be non-graphical and non-programmable.
All Casio MS & ES are allowed."
 
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Is this the same thing for even igcse? and in this list fx-991es by casio is not written :(
 
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HyDraZin3 said:
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


CaptainDanger said:
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...
 
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I dont think fx-991es is allowed after seeing these posts cuz with that calculator we can do integration as well as differentiation
:( :(
 
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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
 
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HyDraZin3 said:
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?



AhmadArabiyat said:
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...
 
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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.
 
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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....
 
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HyDraZin3 said:
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.... :)
 
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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.
 
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