The graph demonstrates the number of people enrol on four different types of educational course in China on the period 2008 to 2012. (2)
enrolled - in the period
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Overall, with the exception at literacy, the number of students on all the other courses climb gradually...
at --> of / climbed
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The first key feature show that literacy courses had lowest number of participants overall for the whole period.
shows / the lowest
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This type of course is the only one which showed a downward trend , begin with just over 1.5 million students in 2008 then dip to almost 0 by 2010.
beginning / dipping
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Uptake rised slightly in 2012 to just under a million but this course type remained the lowest in term of student numbers.
rose / in terms of
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In the other hand, the proportion of students on undergraduate courses shown the highest increase throughout the period
on / showed
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..and numbers on this type of course increasing steadily from around 19 millions in 2008 to 23 millions in 2012.
increased / million
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These courses has approximately four times as many students more the other types of course.
had / as many students as
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Similarly, numbers of students enrol as postgraduates and using online courses followed a same upward trend
enrolled / similar
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....and increased moderatively from 2008 to 2012, end with around 2 million and 5 million participants respectively in 2012.
moderately / ending
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Undergraduate courses engaged far much more learners than any another type throughout the entire period.
far more / any other type
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Online learning courses appear to have been gaining increasing interest, reached almost 5 million learners by the end of the period.
appeared / reaching
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In general, all types of courses witnessed a steady increasing, except for literacy courses, fell slightly in 2010.
a steady increase / which fell
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The numbers for both postgraduates and literacy courses started at the same point in 2008, but while the farmer showed a slight rise, the later decreased to almost zero in 2010 and then recovered back to around 2 million in 2012.