Wednesday, June 01, 2005
The State has spoken: no graphing calculators...
Sadderthenews folks. Here is the link to the latest Chemistry Regents proctoring instructions. The state has decreed that you may not use a graphing calculator (i.e. Ti-83 or Ti-89er) on the Chem Regents. I'm not making this up so we'll just have to deal with it. Come to think of it, this is not such a big deal. You don't use your calculator much on the Chem Regents (due to those "numerical setup" questions) and, when you do use the calc, you will most likely be multiplying, dividing, or adding.
Pick a nice calculator, the Ti-30 or some Radio Shack thingie is nice, and get used to it for the next three weeks, mmm-kay.
Here is the link to THE STATE file (once again fixing what ISN'T broken):
http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/osa/scire/infoblktsciencesja05.pdf
Read it and sigh and then get your revenge by getting high 90's or a 100 (the STATE doesn't like scores that high- you can tell by their "progressive" scoring scale; everyone must be homogenized into mediocrity).
Pick a nice calculator, the Ti-30 or some Radio Shack thingie is nice, and get used to it for the next three weeks, mmm-kay.
Here is the link to THE STATE file (once again fixing what ISN'T broken):
http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/osa/scire/infoblktsciencesja05.pdf
Read it and sigh and then get your revenge by getting high 90's or a 100 (the STATE doesn't like scores that high- you can tell by their "progressive" scoring scale; everyone must be homogenized into mediocrity).
# posted by C @ 10:03 PM 
