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Approved graphics calculators and scientific calculators

• Students who wish to use calculators must provide them or be allocated a calculator by the SACE coordinator.
• Students may bring two calculators into the examination.
• Calculators must be used silently.
• Students have access to a special provision in assessment (assessment misadventure) for incidents that occur outside of their control in an external examination. Flat batteries or an inadequate power source are not included in this provision.
• Removable covers of calculators and instruction booklets may not be taken into the examination room.

Specific Conditions

Approved graphics calculators in Mathematics external examinations: Mathematical Methods Stage 2, Mathematical Studies Stage 2, Specialist Mathematics Stage 2

• Students are not required to clear the memory of graphics calculators, but computer algebra systems (CAS) and interactive geometry capabilities are not permissible.
• Students may bring two unfolded A4 pages of handwritten notes into the examination. Calculator manuals are not permitted in the examination, but key sequences may be included in the handwritten notes.
• Students may bring two calculators into the examination. One of these may be a scientific calculator.

Approved graphics calculators in non-mathematics external examinations

• Students must clear the memory of their graphics calculators.
• Students are not permitted to bring any notes into the examination.