Reading a grading report · lesson 6

The clarity plot

Lesson quiz · five questions, in a new order every time

Five questions on lesson 6 of Reading a grading report. The questions and the answers to pick from come in a new order every time you start.

Pick an answer, and the question marks itself. For a question that you answer in your own words, think of your answer first. Then show our answer and say whether you had it. Nothing is saved or sent.

  1. Question 1: What three things does a symbol on a clarity plot tell you?

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    a: What it is, where it is, and roughly how big.

  2. Question 2: Which GIA report has no plotted diagram?

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    b: No plot; a short written list instead.

  3. Question 3: What does the Dossier give you instead?

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    A written list of up to four of the most significant characteristics, and the report number inscribed on the girdle.

  4. Question 4: Where on a GIA report would a laser drill hole be shown?

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    In the key to symbols (and laser drilling is described in Comments).

  5. Question 5: Two diamonds are both SI1, 1.01 ct, G. How could a report help tell them apart?

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    Their clarity plots differ: each map is unique to its stone, like a fingerprint.

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