Casio fx-50F/fx-50FH programming

[johanw]

(08-21-2020 02:00 PM)Albert Chan Wrote:  Why do students that can afford a programmable calculator have the advantage ?

Afford? When I checked what I spend on books for my study, the calculator I used then (a Casio FX-8000G which I paid 299 Guilders for in 1988 - about 135 Euro) - was not the most expensive part of my study. On some exams I could not use it, there I used a non-programmable scientific calculator. College tuition was around 1350 Euro / year then.

Quote:Answer is considered correct if you write the steps, leaving the arithmetics un-calculated.

That was always the case in university and high school. Just writing down a number without explaining how you got it was 0 points (we didn't have multiple choice exams). And some examinations were a 1 on 1 questioning by a teacher where you had to solve, (or start solving when it would take too long to finish it completely), problems, so no cheating possible there.

Quote:You get bonus points if you can estimate the result.

That is a usefull skill on its own.