credit

What is a credit score?

• What lenders use to see if you are able to pay back credit

• 3 numbers

• What your score on a test is that was worth credit

• The total amount due on your credit card

What is your job as a borrower?

• To charge as much as you can

• To borrow as much as humanly possible
• Spend your loans and not pay them back
• To pay back your loans promptly

What is debt?

• Another word for death

• Something, typically money, that is owed or due

• A loan on which you do not have to pay interest

• That which is incurred during childhood and consummated in college

Revolving credit is...

• a type of credit that can be used repeatedly up to a certain limit as long as the account is open and payments are made on time.

• a type of credit that can be used only once up to a certain limit and must be closed immediately after all payments are due

• a spinning door with money in it

• a round device that holds credit cards and spins, making it easy to shuffle through all your credit cards quickly

Which of the following is not a characteristic of an installment loan?

• repaid over time

• scheduled payments

• accompanied by an interest rate

• also known as a revolving loan

What does a secured loan mean?

• the bank needs special approval

• you will have to pay a high interest rate

• it is high risk to the bank

• the loan has collateral

The least amount that must be paid on a credit card each month is

• Late Fee
• Credit Limit
• Payment amount
• Minimum Monthly Payment

How can a cardholder avoid paying interest on a credit card?

• Do not pay anything
• Pay the minimum payment after its due date
• Pay the minimum balance every month
•  Pay the balance in full every month

Only making the minimum payment on a credit card every month will:

• lower the amount total paid for the purchase
• make you independently wealthy
• take longer to pay off which will result in paying more interest, more money!
• pay off the credit card faster

If you miss a credit payment, what happens to your monthly APR rates?

• APR stays the same

• APR goes down

• APR goes up

• APR goes to 0