Cue Card - Calculator

 Calculator cue card

It is a sample answer for those having speaking tomorrow.

Model Answer:

Introduction:

Calculation plays an imperative role in everyone's life since we can enhance our cognitive and motor skills through calculation. A number of times I have solved a lengthy calculation without using a calculator and here I would like to talk about an instance when I was not allowed to use a  calculator. 

When was it? and Where was it?

I remember when I was in grade 10th, my school organized scholarship tests since I was among the top performers in the classroom, so I didn’t practice much or even read the instructions for the test. 

Actually, I was in the habit of using a calculator from class 8th onwards, and I was very poor at mental mathematics.

How did you?

I was having a very tough time since every time I was solving these questions, it took me a long time to solve, and still, I could not get the correct answers because my answers did not match the given options as most questions were MCQ based.

How did you feel about it?

I got extremely irritated because I couldn’t even solve 15 questions in one hour, and this section badly affected my other two sections of English and Science.

I was not left with much time to complete. As a result, I could have scored better on the test. In contrast, my friends who had learnt the tips and tricks and practised mental mathematics were able to perform far better than me.

What you learnt?

It was more like a lesson for me not to be dependent on machines all the time, which is why I joined some sessions afterwards to improve my mental math skills. Today I can handle most calculations orally, and that was the situation where I couldn’t use the calculator to solve a sum.