At Liverpool candidiates must have an approved model which
has an embossed logo on it and which can be bought in the
University.
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:37:55 +0100 Hancox DL
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> I would be interested to hear if there are any rules/regs imposed in other
> institutions in relation to calculators being used in exams.
>
> At Salford calculators are allowed but students are advised that the
> memories of pre-programmable calculators should be cleared.
>
> Obviously not all invigilators have sufficient technical ability to check
> that this is done and where lots of students use calculators this can prove
> too time consuming to carry out.
>
> It has been said that students in our Engineering Schools have to use very
> sophisciated calculators in order to sit the papers and these are
> programmable!
>
> What do we do?
>
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> Deborah Hancox
> Administrative Assistant (Academic)
> University of Salford
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