Observation

This question was not answered by many of the candidates that took the examination and their performance was poor. Many of the candidates could not draw divided bar graph. A good percentage of the candidates who answered the question were able to calculate the number of farmers who cultivated rice from 2005-2007. However, quite a good proportion of the candidates who answered the question were not able to specify the major difference between simple bar chart and the component/divided bar graph. The major difference is that simple bar chart shows only one component in a bar while component or divided bar graph shows many components in a bar.