Information Transfer: Past year question (10 December 2005)
Refer to page 14 of the past year exam compilation and post your essays here. Make sure you include these particulars in your essay:
1. Introduce the graph
2. Desribe axis-X & axis-Y
3. Desribe the highest & lowest
4. Comparison of the highest and lowest.
5. General statement to desribe the graph (eg. From the graph, most students travel to the university by foot.)
6. Give 2 reasons based on the trend.
Happy writing!
Below is an example of how you can write.
The bar graph above shows the survey on how MMU students goes to campus in December 2004. The X-axis (Axis-X) represents the mode of transportation (traveling methods) used by students while, the Y-axis (axis-Y) represents the number of students. According(From) to the graph, most of the students prefer to walk to campus (or students most preferred method of traveling to campus is by foot) while, the least preferred method is cycling with 350 students and 150 students respectively. Thus, this data shows a difference of 200 students. One of the reasons students prefer to walk to campus is to save cost as walking does not incur any petrol cost. Apart from this, students are able to save traveling time, which gives them the flexibility and convenience. (126 words)