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(02-26-2015 11:36 PM)Thomas Klemm Wrote:  

(02-26-2015 05:38 PM)walter b Wrote:  How about a WP 31S?

Do you consider the WP-31S a 'dumb' calculator?

What the officials of the testing committee are concerned with is "Programmability". If a student can tuck away a program containing a difficult to remember formula, then they believe that this gives an unfair advantage to that student who needn't remember the formula. It isn't so much a SMART vs DUMB issue, it is more of a "Trainable" vs "Untrainable" issue. They disallow any calculator that can be loaded with a custom "Program" before the test. Those "Programmable" calculators
that are permitted for testing have well known "Erase" procedures that the instructors know and perform on student's calculators (to ensure that no custom programs are allowed) prior to the exam.