Financial performance writing task

salih

This has always bothered me the writing task on these exams. The 2nd practice paper of financial performance 1.6 task where it ask you to explain the variance and reason why its adverse or favourable, they give you a table with the figures and some of the variance. Where it shows the price and usage variance for direct material it just has the figure and i wondering how would you figure it out without? Can someone please help me thanks