At the University of Kent, we insist on a particular type of calculator
(the non-programmable Casio fx-83), which we provide the students with at
the beginning of their studies. Any non-standard calculator found in an
exam will be removed.
Chris Barron
Departmental Administrator
Department of Electronics
University of Kent
At 12:37 14/06/01 +0100, you wrote:
>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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