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iamdan08:
I hope not! But you never know with those tight ass VCAA markers!

Four:
My Methods teacher told me that when he was a VCAA examiner a few years ago, one question which specified that 'answers were to be given to 1 decimal place' had an answer that was exactly a whole number. VCAA specifically told its examiners to mark down anyone who omitted the redundant decimal place (ie; anyone who wrote 5 instead of 5.0), but my teacher awarded the marks regardless.

I guess it sometimes comes to the individual examiner’s judgement, rather than VCAA’s.

Collin Li:

--- Quote from: Four on February 23, 2008, 07:34:48 pm ---My Methods teacher told me that when he was a VCAA examiner a few years ago, one question which specified that 'answers were to be given to 1 decimal place' had an answer that was exactly a whole number. VCAA specifically told its examiners to mark down anyone who omitted the redundant decimal place (ie; anyone who wrote 5 instead of 5.0), but my teacher awarded the marks regardless.

I guess it sometimes comes to the individual examiner’s judgement, rather than VCAA’s.

--- End quote ---

Yeah, I didn't lose a mark when I stated "0" instead of "0.0" for a question similar to this (2006 Exam 2).

I always carry my calculations all the way through. I neglected that on a recent exam I did, so hopefully my answers are not too far off.

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