MOE SEAB Calculator Rules: Ignore These 5 Rules (And You Might Be Barred From Taking Your Examinations)

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MOE SEAB Approved Calculator Rules

You could be using your calculator for finding mole ratios, solving roots of quadratic equations or evaluating acceleration problems.

Yet:

Do you know the rules pertaining to their use in Ministry of Education examinations?

(bonus: SEAB Approved Examination Scientific Calculators and Graphing Calculators from 2017 and beyond)

Now:

1) Your calculator needs to be silent (100

2) You are not allowed to share your calculators with your friends during any examinations

3) You must remove any instruction sheets, formula lists or conversion help that come along with your calculators

4) Your calculator is not capable of performing differentiation, integration and other algebraic manipulations.

5) You cannot use a spoilt calculator as an excuse for low grades.

List of Approved Scientific Calculators

List of Approved Graphing Calculators

You are probably not aware that:

The use of calculators was introduced by the Ministry of Education for Primary 5 students in 2008 and Primary 6 students in 2009.

The reason given was to allow “pupils to better focus on discovering patterns and making generalisations without worrying about computational accuracy”.

In 2008, secondary school students are allowed to use scientific calculators in both Paper 1 and Paper 2.

Previously, only Paper 2 allowed the use of scientific calculators.

Graphing calculators were also introduced in Junior College (JC)/ Centralised Institutes (CI) for H1, H2 and H3 Mathematics ” to plot graphs, perform statistical functions and solve a series of equations” at GCE A-Level.

Source:
https://www.seab.gov.sg/docs/default-source/documents/guidelines_calculators_2019_03122018c524ba42ed5d4a8098f10e48a5fcbc41.pdf