1.

Title
This may be extracted from the given instruction or found in the titles of the given
stimuli. In other words, one may join a title from a visual to another visual. The number
of words for the title is not counted.
e.g Drama Competition Prizes and the Number of Participants (20122013)
2. Introduction
A statement that clearly mentions the charts
data (year/month/week/day) when introducing the report.

and

includes

specific

For starters, the following opening sentences can be used;

The chart shows..

Figure 1 shows . And table 1 shows.
The visuals illustrate..
The stimuli demonstrate..
e.g The tables show Drama Competition Prizes and number of participants
in secondary schools in 2012 and 2013.

3. Overview and General Trend (use either one)

Overview

It shows the connection or the link between the visuals. The easiest way to link the idea
between the visuals is to use words like influence, affect or other related words.
e.g The increase in the prize money for secondary schools in the Drama
Competition from 2012 to 2013 might have influenced the increase in the
number of participants in 2013.

General Trend

It shows the overall movement or pattern of an item in comparison.

e.g Generally, there was an increase in prize money for all secondary
school prizes from 2012 to 2013

4. Analysis
A statement that contains the following items:Key Feature
(KF)

Refers to the items being discussed

Trend (T)

Refers to the change or movement of the data

Data (D)

Refers to the item that can be presented in percentage,

frequency of popularity based on week, month or year.

What are those items really about for MUET report writing? Just look at the samples
below. Key features are highlighted in green where as the group of data are highlighted in
red.

What about the trend? I mean the movement of the data? The movement can be
categorized into 4;increase, decrease, fluctuate and static. The best way is to use variety
of synonyms like skyrocket, rise, boost, doubled, hike, plummet, plunge, fall etc etc. Lets
look at an example.
The third prize (KF) for primary school (KF)remained unchanged (T)
at RM1,000-00 (D) but there was an increase (T) of RM1,000-00 from
RM2,000-00 to RM3,000-00 (D) for secondary school over the two
years (D).