[Fee]

Hello All,

Tuesday I take Far! My first exam. I’ve been studying like crazy and am ready to move on to a new topic. I was wondering at the prometric test centers do they provide calculators or do we have to use the crappy microsoft based calculator with the register tape? Sorry I’m a noob. 🙂

Thanks for your help…this site has been tremendous for me!

[ScruffMcGruff]

The crappy electronic ones tied in with the exam program… And they're worse than the Microsoft calculators IMO…

AUD - 85
FAR - 78 (lol@ FAR Sims)
REG - 85
BEC - August

[Fee]

Ughhh…That really slows you down IMO. It just doesn't seem practical, but whatever that's the rules.

[Anonymous]

I think one of my bosses told me that in his day he wasn't allowed to use any calculators – and that was in the days of pencils and paper – no computer.

Overall, we're pretty lucky it's computer-based and that there is a calculator provided, however annoying it may be…I did not like using the calculator for my first exam, but I kind of had to (it was FAR), so I sort of got used to it.

Good luck!

[Mmilito]

The calculator is small and hard to see (I put that in as one of my complaints in my post-test survey), Use the Microsoft one and become used to the size of the font. I know that it slowed me down a lot because I couldn't see the numbers and kept on punching in the wrong numbers because I was nervous. It was not a costly lesson, but def became a distraction during the test to redo some of the more complex calculations because I pressed a wrong button

FAR 92
AUD 91
BEC 11/06/2011
REG 02/01/2012

[Anonymous]

@Mmilito

That's annoying. I think I had a similar problem on one of the exams…

[Author]

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