Calculators not allowed for C1...how?

You mean we're not allowed calculators in the exam?
*Has a mental breakdown*

Wait.. do the exams follow the GCSE format of one calc paper, one non calc? :confused:

I really know very little about the course I'm doing lol

We've been using calculators for C1 stuff in the assesment tests though?..

Reply 2

OP

my teachers says we're not allowed calculators for C1 and i have confirmed this by checking the syllabus.

Reply 3

Unregistered

C1 will be non calculator all other units you can use a scientific calculator.

C1 will probably require answers in SURD form or answers will probably come out as full numbers no decimals or anything.

Reply 4

OP

im revising C1 at the moment and im doing a question where i have to work out square root of 3770.6144 becoz of that quadratic formula and the answer does come out as decimals... :frown:

Reply 5

Christophicus

18

london

C1 will be non calculator all other units you can use a scientific calculator.

C1 will probably require answers in SURD form or answers will probably come out as full numbers no decimals or anything.

That is correct so if the solutions were 0.46862 and -7.46862 for a quadratic equation you would write the answers like this.

(-7+/-root63)/2

Reply 6

OP

Widowmaker

That is correct so if the solutions were 0.46862 and -7.46862 for a quadratic equation you would write the answers like this.

(-7+/-root63)/2

but the thing is they do expect you to give your answer to 3 s.f.

Reply 7

GH

tribal_angel

but the thing is they do expect you to give your answer to 3 s.f.

Look, you seem like a rather dense person to be blunt, so listen up. 3sf is not accurate. Whereas surd form is more accurate.

They will ask you like: "Answer in surd form..." etc

They will not ask for 3sf.

Revel in the fact that you have an easy syllabus and you lot are doing 1 less module than the year before you.

Reply 8

john !!

14

tribal_angel

but the thing is they do expect you to give your answer to 3 s.f.

if they say that they are idiots
you won't have to do that in the exam

Reply 9

OP

2776

Look, you seem like a rather dense person to be blunt, so listen up. 3sf is not accurate. Whereas surd form is more accurate.

They will ask you like: "Answer in surd form..." etc

They will not ask for 3sf.

Revel in the fact that you have an easy syllabus and you lot are doing 1 less module than the year before you.

er hello? i have the txtbook here with me and i can READ it, it says 3.s.f.

Reply 10

GH

tribal_angel

er hello? i have the txtbook here with me and i can READ it, it says 3.s.f.

er hello? Can you not USE common sense for once?

Reply 11

OP

2776

er hello? Can you not USE common sense for once?

well guess what? common sense is not gonna help much if they want you to leave ur answers in 3s.f in the exam.

Reply 12

GH

tribal_angel

well guess what? common sense is not gonna help much if they want you to leave ur answers in 3s.f in the exam.

Well if you got common sense than you'd know they WON'T ask for it. Textbooks are not always right. And you arn't either.

Reply 13

SunGod

Common sense would be to double check these things, which s/he has done. Now please shut up.

Reply 14

Fermat

8

Can I just make a couple of comments - speaking from past experience as well.
The C1 course may very well ask you to give answers that require a calculator and ask you to give your answers to so many sig figures, But I would imagine that if the exam is supposed to be done without a calculator, then that exam is simply testing your mathematical skills rather than your computational skills in using a calculator. In the exam, results will be (numerically) simple answers (otherwise a calculator would be needed) - perhaps in surd form as mentioned. Or you may be given a result and then asked to prove it.
So, even though the C1 course needs you to use a calcultor, the exam questions will be designed to not require one.

Reply 15

AmZ_Nuk

7

one more 'er hello' comment..

er hello, can you all calm down and just thank the stars for the fact it IS a non-calculator paper. I remember ole' P1, and compared to the new C1 papers, its damn hard.

Reply 16

Jonatan