The chart below shows the percentage change in the share of international students among university graduates in different Canadian provinces between 2001 and 2006.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
There is one big mistake in this answer. Can you spot it?
The bar graph compares the percentage of overseas students who graduated from universities in Canada over a five year period from 2001 to 2006.
Overall, the number of graduations by international students rose significantly in the 5-year period, with all universities seeing an increase, with the exception of Alberta. The most significant change was in British Columbia which saw their numbers increase by over a factor of 2.
Between 2001 and 2006, New Brunswick rose by around five percent from approximately 7% to just under 12%. Nova Scotia followed a similar trend growing from just over 6% to approximately 10%. However, the most significant change was in British Columbia which began at around 4.5% and finished the period slightly over 10%.
In contrast, the rest of the universities in Canada experienced a small rise of between 2% to 3%, with the exception of Alberta, which witnessed a slight decrease by about 2% from just under 6% in 2001 to just over 4% in 2006.
The mistake above shows how important it is to report the data accurately. Make sure you have enough time at the end to check your data.
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I think so the mistake in here is the phrase “with the exception of Alberta”. This actually means Alberta has not seen a gain from 2001 to 2006, whereas in reality it actually has.
I think so!!!
“Compares” is not exact synonyme of shows ,maybe should be displays?
In this context, ‘compares’ is a good synonym for ‘displays’, so that wasn’t the mistake!
I’ll give you a clue – it is related to the way the data is reported 🙂
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I just don’t get the “Alberta section”. It is said that it witnessed a slight decrease while the bar graph shows otherwise. it shows a slight increase. I’m not sure if I’m right or wrong. I appreciate your help.
yeah, I don’t get that too
Did you read the bottom of the article? Chris left a mistake in the sample answer to show the importance of checking the data carefully!
agree
The bar graph compares the overseas graduates and their contribution to various Canadian universities in percentage from 2001 and 2006. Overall, New Brunswick leads in the shares among all other universities whereas Ontario takes up least contribution. Between 2001 and 2006, New Brunswick rose significantly from 7.5 % to 12% and the similar trend which seen in Nova Scotia but slightly lower than New Brunswick about 7% and 11% respectively. Manitoba and Newfoundland and Labrador showed similar contribution in both years which is about 4% at 2001 and 7% at 2006. On contrast to this, British Columbia shares doubled from… Read more »
is it ok to put estimated percentages like what the writer did since they are no specific percetanges or can write ( between 5% and 10%)?