MUET Writing Question 1

Points to remember

Parts of the report on graphs: Sample answer

Parts that are
Sentence samples Comments
mandatory
1. Rephrase the
words used in
The Number of Sales of Malaysian Online Stores and the
1. Title the rubric.
Strategies taken to increase Sales in 2015 and 2016
2. Underline the
title

Paragraph 1
Figure 1 depicts the amount of sales of Malaysian online You must cite
2. Introduction stores while Table 1 illustrates strategies taken to increase each graph
sales in 2015 and 2016. clearly
In general the amount of sales for the stores was affected by
3. Overview
the number of strategies taken to improve sales.

Paragraph 2
Compulsory to
1. In 2015 Lazomba had lower sales (RM70,000) if have:
compared to 2016 (RM140,000).  KF
[Key
4. Analysis 2. The sales for 21 Street remained constant (RM50,000) Features]
for the two years.  TW
[Trend
3. In 2016 Lazomba had taken the most strategies (8) to Words]
increase the number of sales online.  S [Statistics
5. Synthesis 1. Lazomba had taken all the strategies in 2016 (8) that
resulted in the store recording very high sales
(RM140,000).

2. The sales for 21 Street remained constant from 2015 to

2016 (RM50,000) as the strategies taken remained the
same ‘accept cash on delivery’, presents attractive
webpage’, and ‘offers competitive prices’ (3 strategies)
for both years.

3. The number of strategies taken by Lazomba (5) in 2015

was lower than in 2016 (8) that resulted in sales that was
recorded lower (RM70,000) in 2015 than (RM140,000)
in 2016.

4. In 2015 sales was higher for Lazomba (RM70,000) if

compared to 21 Street (RM50,000) as Lazomba had more
strategies (5) if compared to 21 Street (3).

5. Sales for Lazomba was again higher (RM140,000) than

 21 Street (RM50,000) in 2016 as the former had taken all
the strategies (8) which was more than the latter (3).

6. The strategies taken for 21 Street was quite low (3) for
2016 that resulted in the sales for the online stores to be
quite low (RM50,000).

7. In 2015 the number of strategies taken by 21 Street was

slightly lower (3) than Lazomba (5) that resulted in sales
that was slightly lower (RM50,000) than Lazomba
(RM70,000).

In conclusion, the sales for the online stores was greatly Fresh rephrase
6. Conclusion affected by the strategies taken to increase sales. of the overview

Write the no. of words used (200 words)