Answers to the test

Ok time to go through the answers for the previous test. For the uninitiated its answers to the questions in the post below this one. I remember how I used to feel in my school days where soon after giving the test I would like to know the answers. Friends would huddle together to discuss them, of course now you have the internet to turn to.

One reason to give this test is to see how 'jewellery aware' the visitors or stumblers to this site are. I have no clue how many took the test and how many were even right. With not much actvity in that dept. I guess we are all left with wild guesses to make. I have a better response to the poll that is going on right now. The findings of that poll would be analysed in a post after this one.

So quickly the answers

1) c : there are 5 signs needed to identify a hallmarked jewellery. They are BIS logo, Purity fineness, Assaying or hallmarking centre's logo, Year of hallmarking and finally the jeweller's logo

2) d: the survey found 90% of the ornaments tested for the claimed purity to be grossly deficient in purity. More articles here.

3) b: The corresponding hallmark sign for 18k purity is 750. Want to know whats the sign for other purity levels? Read here

4) a: Hallmarking ascertains the purity of only the gold used in the ornament be it gold jewellery or diamond jewellery.

5) a: A consumer should lose only the making charges on return of gold jewellery.

6) a: Yes diamonds mounted on jewellery are certifiable . Thanks to the opening of diamond grading labs like IGI it is now possible to know the clarity and color of diamonds 'embedded' in gold.

7) b: A certificate by a reputed grading lab like IGI, GIA or EGL only indicates the characteristics based on 4Cs. It doesnt indicate the value of the diamond.

8) a: The 4Cs of a diamond are cut colour, clarity and carat. Diamonds sold with names as white, super deluxe or eye clean are a clever way of hiding the other qualities of a diamond.