Rounding the number of payments!

[Richard Feynman 101]

Having done most of the VCAA further exams I have not found this particular issue of having to round down where payments are, say, 9.26.
One has to remember that VCAA exams go through proper vetting to ensure their is no ambiguity in questions. There are teachers who quite literally sit these exams to ensure they are fine.
I would not be surprised if VCAA actively ensures the payment number is 9.x where x is greater than 50 in order to have both those that round and those that take the logical approach on rounding are correct.

No ambiguity! Yikes! Gotta be pretty good at English (feel for the EAL kids). Attached is such an example, notice in particular Elli, that could be interpreted two ways (Elil her predicition and person 4 being the one student she predicts), wrong for the first statement and correct for the second statement.

[Lear]

No ambiguity! Yikes! Gotta be pretty good at English (feel for the EAL kids). Attached is such an example, notice in particular Elli, that could be interpreted two ways (Elil her predicition and person 4 being the one student she predicts), wrong for the first statement and correct for the second statement.

Not too sure what this has to do with rounding payments nor do I understand what question is asking as I do not do whatever subject that is.
Perhaps you quoted the wrong person on the wrong post?

[S_R_K]

I found an example from 2012 VCAA  It does not say 'to the nearest whole number', but I think this still holds as evidence to confirm that it's 19 hehe

Thanks. It'd be nice to get confirmation in a VCAA bulletin or examiners report of how these questions should be answered. Whether you round up or round down, the final payment won't be the same amount as the others, and it's not clear (at least to me) why it's unreasonable to think that the final payment is adjusted by adding the outstanding balance to the normal payment (thus avoiding additional interest).

[studyingg]

Thanks. It'd be nice to get confirmation in a VCAA bulletin or examiners report of how these questions should be answered. Whether you round up or round down, the final payment won't be the same amount as the others, and it's not clear (at least to me) why it's unreasonable to think that the final payment is adjusted by adding the outstanding balance to the normal payment (thus avoiding additional interest).

I agree, this knowledge shouldn't be expected from students, and it's a shame that finding this kind of thing out relies on reading examination reports and learning from the mistakes of others who were placed at a disadvantage by a lack of clarity.

[userrrname]

Hey guys so i know a lot of people are saying to round up but in the VCAA 2008 question 5a they seem to have rounded down? The answer is 52.4... and the examiner's report says that the answer should be 52 and NOT 52.4. Should i just ignore this because it was like a decade ago?

[Lear]

This doesn't disprove other cases.
In this case VCAA outright told you that the last payment is LESS than 350.
And the question asked specifically how many EQUAL payments there are of 350.