One very important aspect of the GCSE (and the AS Level) is description of data. Over the coming months, Innes and I will be putting some useful information on the blog that you can use to help you with your exam technique. Alongside the data we will give you tips on how to get the best marks in these sorts of questions. Today’s data, the first in our “Delicious Data” series, is on the US economy.
As you can see the data in the graph shows GDP in the USA between the beginning of 2008 and the middle of 2010. The first thing to notice is the use of Q1, Q2 etc. The Q stands for quarter as economists like to divide the year up into 4 parts, so Q1 is January, February and March.
A typical question on this piece of data would be asking you to describe the changes in US GDP between 2008 and 2010. Make sure you use figures from the graph to support your descriptions. Without figures you usually cannot get more than half marks for this type of question.
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