[Year 12 IT Apps] Possible serious marking issue - ITA exam

[Mark KELLY]

Hi all (and Paula)

ITA exam, Section B, Q2. Phone number data type.

Another little birdie has suggested that (as I vaguely wondered in the post
mortem), the underlining of the digits in the phone number was somehow
supposed to tell students that the data was filtered through an input mask
and that the data type should be numeric.

The use of input masks, and the meaning of the underlining, were NOT
explained in the explanatory data, and Filemaker students have never heard
of input masks. Asserting that the answer is 'numeric' would be unfair.

And if it *were* an input mask, were the 0 and 3 in the area code also
underlined? (I don't have the printed exam with me, but I think they were
not.)
Then again, if it's *not* an input mask, why were the digits underlined?
It's unnecessarily confusing.

So 'text' should be an acceptable response for the phone number in that
question.

Regards
Mark

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