Is it just me, or is JAMB not allowing scientific calculators absolutely dumb? They say...

Is it just me, or is JAMB not allowing scientific calculators absolutely dumb?

They say it can give a "unfair advantage" but if everyone is using it, everyone becomes equal. And the stupid thing is that, they ask you questions that require a scientific calculator. From square roots to sin, cos, and tan values (Not including 0°, 30°, 45°, 60° and 90°) From questions like angle of depression, to finding the square root of irrational numbers. Knowledge can't help you there. There is no way you're gonna memorize all that. So I don't understand why this is a thing?

Even WAEC's non-calculator paper makes more sense. They ask you questions that are solvable without a scientific calculator, and/or they'll give you a table of values. But JAMB as we know, doesn't do any of this.?

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Asked by River on 7th February, 2024