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Follow the rules of the actual assessment, not the assumptions in third-party practice material. Your preparation should match the conditions you will face on test day.
A practice resource can still be useful for the question style, but using tools that are not permitted can hide a pacing or arithmetic weakness. The official instructions are the source of truth for allowed resources.
If the real assessment prohibits a calculator, redo some representative practice sets manually even if the original practice platform provides a calculator button. That gives you a more realistic view of your speed.
Review the official test instructions, recreate those conditions in practice, and focus on shortcuts, estimation, and clean written setup where calculators are not permitted.