Try it each way on your calculator to determine how yours works. The memory of any calculator with programming capability must be cleared reset or disabled when students enter the testing room. In fact the Math Test includes some questions where its faster not to use a calculator even though youre allowed to.
Students whove been approved to use handheld calculators through an official accommodations request may use them in accordance with the approved accommodation.
Youll see this again and again in your future students shockingly many of whom are likely to have both test anxiety and math anxiety. For example the derivative of the position of a moving object with respect to time is the objects velocity. The bottom line is that you need to know calculus and know it well to succeed on the AP exam. I noticed that you live in VA too I went to the testing center in Falls Church VA on S.