In order to ensure the fairness of the examination, prevent some students from using calculators to calculate quickly and avoid thinking, and affect the fairness and evaluation criteria of the examination, it also emphasizes the cultivation of students' basic mathematical operation ability.

Although calculators are not allowed in Shanghai senior high school entrance examination, scientific calculators can be used in subjects such as mathematics in Shanghai college entrance examination.

Shanghai, as an experimental area of curriculum reform, adopts a different curriculum scheme from the curriculum standards promulgated by the Ministry of Education, and the teaching materials and teaching contents are also different. Therefore, the Shanghai college entrance examination allows the use of scientific calculators without communication, storage and graphics.