Band 6+: The table below shows how many students of a school in the UK chose to take part in four different sports between 2001 and 2011. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The provided graph demonstrates the number of students of a UK’s school who participated in Running, Basketball, Swimming, and Football for the period of ten years from 2001 to 2011.

Overall, it can be seen that Football’s number is consistent throughout the period whereas running has achieved significant growth. Basketball has faced a little growth on the former half and then drastically fell on the latter half.

Under further detailed observation, it can be seen that initially both the ball sports, Football and basketball has almost the same count of around 57 which then separates after the middle half of the period and reaches 70 and 20 respectively at the end of the period.

On the other hand, it can also be observed that running and swimming has almost same number i.e. 18 and 20 which also separates around the year 2006 where running continues its increasing slope and reaches 60 at the start of year 2011, whereas the swimming has to face a gradual fall and reaches 25 at the end of 2011.