Students’ calcs in the 70s/80s

[jthole]

In the early 1980s, we had an official book with formulas and scientific constants. We were allowed to use that during the mathematics, science, chemistry, and biology tests. There also was no restriction on the calculators, IIRC.

During other exams (e.g. English and French) no calculators were allowed at all.

Even in university, we were allowed a programmable calculator. In fact, we also had “open book” exams.

Edit: actually, in university we were encouraged to buy a programmable calculator. I studied computer science from 1986 until 1991.