Why does that horrify you? You are only allowed to use certain calcs. and they make sure that you clear your memory before the test. I thought about it and I don't think that a calc. is really all that useful on the SAT, but for me and my sis it would be a comfort to have it. Without the calc. we are both pretty nervous even when we know we don't really need it.

I think they let you use fancy calculators at least partially to throw off unprepared students. The SAT isn't so much about getting the answer right to a problem, it's seeing the trick they put into the problem to make you THINK you know the answer when you really goofed it up. So buying anything more than a basic +-*/ type for it is wasted money.

Our HS provided TIs for our use all year. My sis, and I both bought a T1 for our college math courses, I don't really need mine but I prefer the layout and am familiar w/ the way it works. My sis needs her...she's in advance mathmatics and is planning on teaching HS advance math.

Just for the record, in high school I programmed my TI-85 to read "memory cleared" when the user entered the appropriate command, but not actually clear the memory.

But don't worry wolf, it's like 9th said: the questions nowadays are such that the calculator is no more than a mundane convenience--if you really need it, you won't be scoring well anyway.

Clodfobble is a calculator ninja!

It was a team effort with several friends. Honestly, we were such nerds we weren't even doing it to cheat, it was born out of pure laziness. I absolutely hated solving the quadratic equation, and I got tired of having to re-program it back in every time I took a test.