[Year 12 IT Apps] VITTA Practice Exams Indiscrepancies

[Howard, David]

Hi Benn,

The study design states for Unit 3 ITA that the data types are:

data types---> including text (string), number, date/time, Boolean (true/false)

I would go by the study design, not the text.

What naming conventions did you teach your students if I may ask?

Regards

David


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Subject: [Year 12 IT Apps] VITTA Practice Exams Indiscrepancies

Hello All,

A few queries regarding the practice exams from the VITTA. My students and I have had quite some debate over quite a few of the answers provided to the exams in the 2012 Exam Pack.

In a response to one of the questions, it asks for the student to fill in the table with the correct data type. The field name is "ProductCost($)". All my students put "Currency" as the appropriate data type, however the VITTA answers sheet lists the correct answer as "Number", however I believe that Currency is listed as a Data Type in the text. 

Also, another sub question to this was to identify the naming convention used. The correct answer provided was CamelCase or CamelBack. I can't seem to find these naming conventions anywhere within the text, or remember covering them with my students throughout the year. There is also a multiple choice question in the same practice exam which ask students to choose the correct naming convention used - the responses include, Camel Case, Camel Back, Hungarian Notation and Positional Notation. Once again, can't see to find any reference to any of these in the texts. Have I missed something? If it's not in the text, how can students expect to answer these questions? These are just some of the recent discrepancies I've had with these VITTA practice exams. 

Cheers,
Benn 

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