I didn't do the smoothness test. Like you I didn't think this was a statistical test. But I kicked myself afterwards for not doing it. I suspect it would have failed the smooth test, because the grad rates were so close to the actual that it would have probably been an undergraduation.
It said statistical test didn't it? So I chose std dev and signs test. The graduation was ridiculously close to the data, spot on in many cases. For signs test the deviation was zero for many cases so don't know if that counts as a +ve or -ve or neither (think it says in notes somewhere but I can't remember).
And the chi-square was so small that it would not have failed the chi-square test as it was almost perfect fit.
I was disappointed in this question and ran out of time so didn't have time to think about it properly. That's one of my issues with the exams in general - it seems to be a desperate run against the clock to pick up as many marks as possible, another 5 minutes here and there to actually think more about the question would yield better answers.
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