by LeRoy
It’s a safe bet that you have used a calculator at some point in your life. Perhaps it was a behemoth from Texas Instruments that needed a heavy duty cord to plug it into the wall, maybe it only required a few batteries, or it could have been solar powered, who knows, maybe the only calculator you have ever really used is the one that’s on your computer. Either way, you know how much quicker they are at solving problems. That’s what they’re designed to do, and they do it well.
Over the course of many years, calculators have definitely evolved. In fact, it seems as though they are getting more and more specialized. There are scientific calculators that let you perform many complicated computations, and graphing calculators, too. Then when you go online you can find calculators that estimate all kinds of things, such as your chances of finding true love, how much of a carbon footprint you have, and even when you’re statistically due to die – yuck!
That’s a lot of calculating power, to be sure. But there’s one that just may be the most important when it comes to everything you do financially: the credit score calculator. So what is it? Just like it sounds, it will use the data you put into to give you a close approximation of your credit score. While each of the companies that give credit scores keeps their precise methods a secret, enough is known about them to give you a pretty good idea of where you stand.
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by LeRoy
Just about everyone who has been an adult for any amount of time knows the importance of establishing and maintaining a good credit score. It is your credit score, as determined by the three credit reporting bureaus, that determines your creditworthiness. Lenders of all sorts, and even landlords and insurance agents, are likely to pull your credit history practically before they shake your hand and say, “Nice to meet you.”
Do you know your credit score?
Do you wonder how TransUnion, Experian, and Equifax calculate credit scores?
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by LeRoy
Do you remember going to school when all you had to figure your math problems with was a pencil and a slide rule? Maybe you are younger than that. Perhaps you remember having a calculator that was as big as your textbook and only being allowed to use it for homework and never on tests? If you are younger still, you may remember being thrilled to discover that when you took harder math classes in school – like Calculus, for example – your teacher actually expected you to have and use a calculator every day.
Well, now we have calculators that graph and make charts and require a huge manual to understand, but that is not the only kind of calculator anymore. Nowadays, we have a calculator for everything. You can find love life calculators, calculators that predict how likely someone is to be successful in a certain career, and even calculators that determine the precise amount of water to give your houseplants.
Even with all these different types of calculators, the one that is likely to have the biggest impact on your life is the credit score calculator. What exactly is a credit score calculator? Well, a credit score calculator is a graph or computer program that can determine your creditworthiness by combining a bunch of different data about you and your finances into a formula and spitting out a number that represents you as a credit consumer.
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by LeRoy
What is the credit score scale and how do you know whether you have a good or bad credit rating? Well, the credit score scale may seem dark and mysterious, but it really isn’t all that complicated. Here is what you need to know about your credit score and the credit score scale.
The credit score scale ranges from three hundred (300) to eight hundred and fifty (850). That means that if you are alive and there are records of you, there is no way you can have a credit score less than 300. If you have only a little bit of debt, you have had it for a long time (many years), and you have never missed a payment or been late with a payment, and you have an income, you might just have the perfect score of 850. Of course, very few people have either the lowest or the highest possible score; just about everyone falls somewhere between the two extremes.
If you want to fall at the very top level of the credit score scale, you should shoot for a rating of at least 720. At one time in the not too distant past, you may have been considered at the top of the game is your score was above 680, but no more. Just about every lender gives the best terms and interest rates only to those whose credit score falls above 720 on the scale.
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