You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The graph below shows the number of university graduates in Canada from 1992 to 2007. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant. You should write at least 150 words.

The line graph shows the number of male and female

graduates

in Canada between 1992 and 2007.

Overall

, it is evident that the population of female

graduates

was considerably higher than that of the male. It can

also

be seen that there was a gradual increase in the figure of both men and women pursuing higher education.

To begin

with, there were nearly 100,000 female

graduates

in 1992.

This

number increased gradually until 1995 and

then

it dropped slightly before picking up again in the year 2000.

Thereafter

, it exhibited a dramatic rise and by the year 2006, its population was close to 150,000. Considerably, the same trend can be observed in the case of male

graduates

. From 70,000 male alum in 1992,

this

quantity was constantly on the rise for the next three years, and by 1995, there were about 76,000 male

graduates

.

However

, there was a slight drop in the figure of men pursuing graduation. Their numbers started increasing from year 2002 and by 2006, there were close to 97,000 male

graduates

.