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)
posted by scorpioneo at 11:16 AM
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The graph highlights the result of survey on how MMU students go to campus in December 2004.Axis x shows the different types of transport and axis y show the numbers of student. Students go to school on foot is the highest numbers which is 350 person. While the lowest is 150 students which is ride bicycle to school. These show the different amount that is 200 students. The bar graph indicates that majority student travel to university on foot. This is because students always find their house that near the university. Less people ride bicycle because students always need to bring a lots of book, that is not convenient and dangerous to ride a bicycle to university.
11:59 AM
The graph shows that the survey on how MMU students go to campus in December 2004. Axis-X represents the methods that students use to travel to campus while axis-Y represents the number of students. The highest numbers of students, 350 students go to campus on foot everyday. On the other hand, the lowest numbers of students,150 students go to school by cycling. Walking to school is a common way that students go to campus everyday. This is because they stay just a stone’s throw away to the campus. They just need to walk few minutes to reach the campus. Besides that, walking to campus doesn’t incur cost. Thus, this decreases their expenses which helps reduce their parents’ burdens too.
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The bar graph shows the survey on how the 1000 MMU students go to campus in December 2004. The axis-x of the bar graph shows the various types of transportation go to the campus while the axis-y shows the number of students. Most of the students go to campus on foot, they are about 350 people. On the other hand, they are lesser students go to campus by riding their bicycles, they are about 150 peoples. Most of the students go to campus on foot is because they live near to the campus, maybe 10 to 15 minutes journey can arrive, even lesser than that. Beside that, most of the students think that walking is better than by transporting, because they can save the money.
12:02 PM
The bar graph showing the survey on how Multimedia Universiy students go to campus in December 2004.In the graph , the axis-X represent the models of transport that students use to go campus.While axis-Y showing the quantity of students using certain transport to school.The highest number that students use for goin to school was on foot whit number of 350 students.While is lowest transportation that used by students go to campus was bicycle with number of only 150 students.The different number between walking and cycling to campus was 200students.One of the factor that cause students walking to school the highest number is almost students are come from other state or other conutry.It is difficult for them to bring a vehicle from another place to here.Another reason was most of the student studying in Multimedia University is stay near by the campus.Students have only take a few minutes to walk to the campus while the campus have limited car park for students to park their car or others vehicles.
12:07 PM
The bar graph shows the survey on how MMU students go to campus in December 2004. From the graph, the axis-y shows the number of students and axis- x represents the transportation of students. The highest rate on how students go to campus is on foot which is 350 students while the lowest is by bicycle with 150 students only. The different between the highest and the lowest is 200 students. The main reason why most of the students go to campus on foot is because they are staying in campus hostel or stayed at the houses or apartments near to campus. The second reason students walk to campus is to save their expenses every month. If they go to campus by car or motorcycle, they have to spend money on petrol and the prices of petrol are increasing.
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12:15 PM
The bar graph shows the survey on how MMU students go to campus in December 2004. The axis-x shows the number of students while the axis-y shows the method that students use to go to campus. The highest rate is on foot which is 350 students while the lowest rate is bicycle with 150 students respectively. The difference between the highest and the lowest rate is 200 students respectively. From the graph,most students travel to the university by foot. The contributing factor to the trend is students can save money by go to campus on foot,this is less costing compares to other transports. In contrast, least students use bicycle because it is more time consuming where students have to find a place to park it.
12:20 PM
The above graph shows the survey on how MMU students go to campus in December 2004. Axis-X represent traveling methods (mode of transportation) used by students to travel to campus while, axis-Y represents the number of students. According to the graph, students preferred most by traveling to campus by foot with a number of 350 students. On the other hand, cycling is least preferred with a total of only 150 students. This means that traveling on foot is the most preferred method compared to other modes of traveling. There are two possible factors that can contribute to the trend that is most of the students travel on foot since they are staying at the hostel that prepared by the university as this will make them easier to arrive to campus on time. Besides that, if the student’s stays near the campus they could save a lot of money though travel by foot.
(152 words)
12:28 PM
Tuah,
Would be better to describe the highest and the lowest by writing like this:
From the bar graph, most of the students walk to campus, which are 350. While, the lowest students travel to campus by cycling.
12:28 PM
The bar graph highlights the survey on How MMU Students Go to Campus in December 2004. The axis-x shows the modes of transportation and the axis-y shows the number of students. They are around 350 students of the MMU students go to the campus on foot, and the lowest is MMU students go to the campus is by riding bicycles with 150 students. The different between students go to the campus on foot and riding bicycles is 200 students. One of the facts that cause majority students go to the campus on foot is because they usually stay nearby the campus. On the other hand, the reason that student less prefers is riding bicycle to the campus. This is because riding bicycle to the campus is very dangerous and not convenient, due to the limited place of the bicycle’s bay.PM11
(140 words)
12:29 PM
Apple
It's number of students (not really 'quantity' of students)
12:31 PM
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12:31 PM
Survey on How MMU Students Go to Campus in Dec 2004
The bar graph shows the survey on how MMU students go to campus in Dec 2004.Axis Y shows the amount of MMU students meanwhile axis X shows the transportation that they usually use to go to campus. Based on the graph, the highest survey shows that 350 students choose to walk to go to campus. The lowest survey is riding the bicycle which is 150 students. The difference between the highest and the lowest is 200 students. According to the graph, most students travel to the university by foot. The reasons why they choose this trend is because this is the easier way to travel. By walking they are more free to go everywhere and they will not facing the problem such as stuck in jam or having difficulties to find parking. It is also the best way to travel for a student who don’t afford to buy a vehicles. The other reasons is about the cost. Walking is more save money than the other transportation. If we driving a car or riding a motorcycle, we have to spend a money for a fuel or maybe other expenses almost everyday. Therefore,students prefer to walk to go to campus instead of driving a car or riding a motorcycle and bicycle.
12:32 PM
This bar graph shows a survey on How MMU Student go to Campus in December 2004. The axis-x is about the difference of transportation. The axis-y is about the number of MMU student. The highest amount is student walking to campus by foot which is 350. But the lowest amount is student go to campus using bicycle which is 150. The differences between the highest and the lowest amount are 200 students. From the bar graph, most of the student travel by foot. The factor that the students travel by foot is they staying near to the campus. The other factor is they don’t need to spend for the petrol expenses, so they can save money for other purpose
12:33 PM
Dear Sunny day,
The bar graph shows the survey on how MMU students go to campus in December 2004. From the graph, axis-x shows the transports for students go to campus and the axis-y shows the number of students. The highest in the graph is students go to campus by foot (350) and the lowest is students go to campus by bicycle (150). In the survey, the other transports are motorcycle (210) and car (290). Comparison of the highest and lowest, there have 200 students prefer go to campus by foot. From the graph, most of students walking to the campus and don’t want go to campus by bicycle because most of them live near by the campus. Students walking to campus more easy than go by bicycle because no need busy to find a place to park their bicycle. Beside that, students walking to the campus can save more money because they no need pay for the petrol if they dint use car or motorcycle.
Do try to limit your word count to 150 words maximum. I've counted your essay and there are 163 words. Do make sure you do not count the number of words wrongly. Any words that surpasses the maximum of 150 will not be taken into account when i mark your paper.
Do look at some of the essay written by your friends. Learn the sentence structures that they have used. YOu can also learn the sentence structures that i have given to you in class during lecture last week.
12:35 PM
The bar graph highlights the sum of how MMU students go to campus in December 2004.According to the bar graph,axis-x shows 4 types of transpotation while axis-y shows the sum of MMU students.Most of the students travel to campus on foot with 350 students.The lowest sum of student go to campus by bicycle with 150 students only. The sum of students travel to school by car more than the students that travel to campus by motorcycle with sum 290 and 210 respectively.The reasons of most MMU student travel to campus on foot is they choose to stay at the apartment special for MMU students where locate near by the campus.By this way, they no need to worry about traffic jam, the expenses of petrol that always raise price, spend their time on parking. Consequently, they can save their time and money by using their foot to travel to campus.
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