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I’ll be honest: I’ve always hated this tendency in schools myself. It means that the kids aren’t forced to reiterate basic arithmetic skills, and may allow those to lapse - and they’re really going to need them for their exams.Then it kicks in: how often do I actually sit and work something out the long way?Bear in mind: I work in a school, mostly in the Maths department, and unless it’s fundamental to a question (i.e. it’s on a non-calculator), I’ll use a calculator myself.Let’s be blunt: it’s quicker, easier, and doesn’t require a whole lot of processing time. Since a lot of Math questions tend to be multi-layered (i.e. having multiple processes attached to answer one question), being able to bypass the long methods for basic operations is helpful: it means you can focus on the meat of the question itself.It always depends on the topic, honestly. If you’re doing something where you’re only likely to encounter one or two operations, you absolutely shouldn’t need a calculator. As I’ve often told my kids, there’s nothing in Primary School that should ever require a calculator, and pretty much everything up until the middle of Year 8 (12–13 years) can be done without reference to one. After that, sure, because then you’re dealing with Trigonometry and the like, but before that…However, end of the day, I prefer to focus on whether or not the student can cope without one. Ultimately they’ve got to be able to pass their exams - both with and without a calculator. Once you’ve left school, chances are you’ll never write something out the long way - but you have to know how to, just in case you need to.But if a teacher is letting their kids use calculators consistently, particularly on a non-calculator topic…that’s laziness and extremely bad practice. Ideally, limit how often your kids use them, and they’ll improve leaps-and-bounds in their mental math skills. They’ll still need to know how to use a calculator, but they should never come to depend upon one.

Generally speaking, its Reading section was harder than most. When I say harder, I mean it was time consuming than most of the other SATs released by the Collegeboard. Out of 5 passages of the reading section, the second paragraph was the most time consuming of all. It was hard to understand, and you had to read the whole passage several times to understand it. Due to this the whole time management aspect of that section was affected.On the other hand, the Writing section was very easy, with difficulty matching with those of the regular SATs.The math sections — non calculator and calculator — were the easiest of all, and amongst my peers, almost no one had an issue solving it. It tested less of the harder concepts on the SAT, and the questions didnt require long working, hence time management wasn't an issue.

I took US History, Calc AB, Statistics, and Latin.US History: 4. The test I got was exactly the same as the World History exam I took last year— even the DBQ and long essay were the same. I probably should've written more for the DBQ but I got a 4 on World last year so I expect a 4 on US too.Calc AB: 3. Was it just me or was the non-calculator multiple choice so friggin difficult? Meanwhile the calculator multiple choice didn't even require a calculator, but the non-calculator portion definitely did.Statistics: 5. Super easy. Even the question 6 FRQ wasn't that bad.Latin: 3. I think I did decent on the multiple choice and decent enough on the short answers to pass, and while I think I did okay on the translations and essay, I don't think it was enough for a 4.I shall see though when I get my scores back in July.