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Mark Guide: Analysing

A.4

A.4a

simple diagrams,charts or graphs

Any sort of bar chart or line graph will do for this part.

Note that a line graph has to be pretty much perfectly constructed to get A.6a. Any single major fault will automatically drop you down to 4 (or possibly 5) marks.

explain the evidence

This means making a conclusion. A conclusion is a summary of what your results tell you.

A.4b

identify trends and patterns

Your conclusion must correctly describe what happens. The easiest way to identify trends is to look at your graph and its shape.

For a simple straight line graph you can have;

You could use either your graph or results table to work out the rate of increase/decrease.
i.e. is it increasing/decreasing by a small or large amount.

For a curved line;

For all graphs look at these and consider what meaning they have;