Line 13 and 14 - Multiply amount by number of weeks/months. (Two very similar tasks)

Type of operation: multiplication (3). Specificity of operation; numbers not in row or column (1); numbers not adjacent (1); labels and amounts identified without search (0); Operation identified with word ‘multiply (0); numbers are present (0); units require transformation (days, weeks, months) (1); total (3). Plausibility of distractors: despite the bolding, it is easy to confuse the given information about days, weeks or months, especially when the qualification that months in the first case can not include weeks included in the other case. (2)

Line 15 - Add amounts from previous entries (same as Line 12)

Line 16 - Compare amounts and enter the lowest amount. This is a document use task involving a simple rank order integration or two numbers, one given and one from another section of the form.

Type of information: amount (2). Type of match: integrate (3); compare (0); 1 feature (0); 1 item response (0); literal for given (0); no inference for new information frame (0); total (3). Distractors: probably some for given ‘weeks/months (2).

2. What is similar to a prison? One can infer from the text that we are looking for a place where people are ‘confined’ and that it has to be an ‘institution.’ Synonymous matches for prison spring to mind: stockade, reformatory, jail, remand centre. No other institution seems to fit the description and one wonders what the form designer was thinking about when he or she added the phrase ‘or similar institution.’