Bar Charts & Pictograms: Eduqas GCSE Foundation June 2025 Paper 1 Q9

Foundation June 2025 Paper 1 Q9

EduqasFoundationCurrent spec5 marksBar Charts & Pictograms Fractions Units & Time

(a)

On Saturday, Evie plans to spend:

\(\dfrac{1}{4}\) of the day watching television,
\(\dfrac{5}{12}\) of the day sleeping,
3 hours in the gym.

Evie has homework which will take four hours to complete.
Show that Evie will have enough time to complete her homework. [4]

(b)

Evie goes to the gym again on Sunday.
She draws a bar chart to show the amount of time she spent on each of three of the exercise machines in the gym.

Bar chart titled Time spent on exercise machines at the gym: Treadmill 20, Cross trainer 40, Stepper 30 minutes; the vertical axis is labelled 0, 10, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45

Write one criticism of her bar chart. [1]

Mark scheme (a)

Scheme	Marks	Comments
(24 ÷ 4 =) 6	B1
24 ÷ 12 × 5 (= 10)	B1
(Hours left =) 24 – 6 – 10 (– 3 – 4) oe OR (Hours used =) 6 + 10 + 3 (+ 4)	M1	Dependent on B1 previously awarded. ‘FT their 10’ if 24 ÷ 12 × 5 incorrectly evaluated.
Correct conclusion e.g. ‘5 hours (left so more than 4 hours)’ ‘5 hours (left so enough time)’ ‘7 hours left so enough time for the gym and homework’ ‘only adds to 19 (hours so enough time for homework)’ ‘23 hours (so one hour spare)’ ‘(Yes, with) one hour spare’	A1	CAO

Alternative

Alternative method

Scheme	Marks	Comments
1/4 = 6/24	B1
5/12 = 10/24	B1
6/24 + 10/24 + 3/24 (=19/24) OR 6/24 + 10/24 + 3/24 + 4/24 (=23/24) OR 24/24 - 6/24 - 10/24 - 3/24 (=5/24)	M1	Dependent on at least one B1 previously awarded.
Correct conclusion	A1	CAO. Allow 23/24.

Mark scheme (b)

Scheme	Marks	Comments
Suitable criticism e.g. ‘the (vertical) scale is not uniform’ ‘time doesn’t increase in equal amounts’ ‘(the axis) goes up in 10s and then 5s’ ‘5 is missing’ ‘15 is missing’	E1	Do not allow ‘the scale is wrong’ ‘it should go up in 10s’ ‘it should go up in 5s’ ‘there are arrows missing on the axis’
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