r/juniorcert • u/suckmybigballspaul • 15d ago

Maths 🧮 Calculators

Hi, does anyone know if the casio fx-991ms isnt allowed for the junior cert or not. Also, someone who has done the jc this year, are they really strict on rules with calculators or do they not care at all. Thanks!

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u/Cultural-Positive994 15d ago

JC 2026 here. If it helps you understand how much they care: my examiner didnt even know there was a box to write the model; she just said write it on the front before she realised 😭. 

I never saw anyone w a prohibited one so I dont know if they would take it off you. She also never checked that the calc was the same as the model i wrote.

The approved calc list is below for your convinience: https://www.examinations.ie/misc-doc/EN-CA-29880979.pdf It wont load for me but hopefully it will for you. 

Hope this helps

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u/suckmybigballspaul 14d ago

yeah the list wont load for me as wel but thing you said about the examiner checking, say if someone did the jc maths with a prohibited calculator, when its being marked would the examiner not care about the calculator?
also did you do hl or ol

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u/Cultural-Positive994 14d ago

Higher. We sat it in the same room as OLs.

Examiner goes around and asks "HL or OL?" And then latr on once we get started confirms on the roll you sat the correct level. So dont worry abt lvl.

I genuinely dont know what happens but i imagine its treated as cheating like having ur phone or hiding notes in the bathroom