- Write a minimum of 150 words
Try to describe in detail and that too in 20 minutes. But make sure you do not write more than 210 words as examiner might not read if it is over-length. Also the excess words might be because you have described in detail too much.
- Question should be paraphrased using synonyms
When compared to Task 2 essay introductions, here you can paraphrase using synonyms.
If the question is: The charts below show the proportions of the world’s oil resources held in different areas, together with the proportions consumed annually in the same areas.
- = The Charts (examine, compare, illustrate, analyse, highlight, demonstrate, give data on, provide an analysis of, display) global oil reserves that are kept in different locations and also its usage in those areas every year.
- Describe the time period differently (over a decade, over a 10-year period, between 2010 and 2020, from 2010 to 2020)
- Time management: Try to finish Task 1 within 15 to 20 minutes as Task 2 carries more marks than Task 1. Spend more time (40-45 minutes) on Task 2
Always do Task 1 first as you are more likely to find describing and analysing a chart difficult during the last few minutes.
Make sure you practice and follow a strict plan to write your Task 1
- Write a good overview (very important)
Find at least 3 key features in the graph:
- What is the highest, lowest value
- What is the most striking feature of the graph. Identify the changes, shifts
- What is same and what is different?
Find a general trend the relates to the chart as a whole
- Select the right tense
- When describing process charts, you have to use present simple tense most of the times. If no time period is given, always use present simple
- Depending on the time period given in the question, you have to use present simple, past simple, past perfect (for a higher band score), future simple
- Past perfect should be carefully used. You can always use it with ‘By’. For e.g. By 2020, the percentage of immigrants (had increased by 10%/had doubled/had reached 20%/had decreased by 10%)
- Quantify: Include numbers, percentages (data) in the body of Task 1
Make sure you include specific data to explain the graph. Use terms like twice as much/doubled to/increased fourfold
For e.g. The visitors who said they were very pleased more than doubled, increasing from 15% to 35 %
Show complex analysis:
For e.g. Over 500,000 visitors were residing on island in 2010 and 2011 which increased to thrice as many in 2013.
The number of visitors who stayed in cruise ships increased fourfold to 2 million by 2017.
- Use connectors or linking words and complex sentences.
For e.g. Over 500,000 visitors were residing on island in 2010 and 2011 which tripled to 1.5 million in 2013, whereas visitors staying on cruise ships fluctuated, but remained below 500,000 till 2013.
First paragraphs:
- First of all…
- Let us start with …
- Let us start by examining/ looking at …
- If we look first at…we can see that…
- What immediately stands out is that…
- What is immediately noticeable is that…
- A quick glance at the first chart shows…
- At first glance, it can be seen that …
- To begin with, we can see that…
Second Paragraphs
- Let us look now at…
- Looking more closely at …
- Turning now to…
- As for…
- With regards to the second chart…
- As regards….
- Regarding…
- When it comes to…
- When we look at…
- On the other hand…
- Further analysis of….. reveals that…
- Describe changes using a variety of sentence structures
(a) a simple verb + adverb collocation (It decreased significantly)
(b) a more complex adjective + noun collocation (There was a significant/dramatic decline)
Model Answer (picture should be given on a separate box)
The bar graph compares the export revenue earned from five different types of export categories in 2015 and 2016, while the table illustrates the percentage of growth in values of each types of goods throughout the time period.
Overall, it can be seen that there was an increase in export earnings over the two years in all categories of products except gems and jewellery, which saw a de-growth in its value by about 5%. Majority of the money earned from exports during the two separate years were mainly from Petroleum products and Engineered goods/ Petroleum products and engineered goods had the highest export earnings compared to other product categories during the two years/throughout the years.
Looking at the growth in more detail, the value of textiles escalated dramatically by 15.24%, which was twice as much as that of Engineered goods and reached over $30 billion in 2016. In contrast, agricultural products saw a meagre rise of below 1% and the same goes for Petroleum products which went up by just 3%.
Although, revenue from textile products was the least performing, it caught up with agricultural products in 2016 and had about the same earnings. However, the precious stones and jewellery category bucked the trend and suffered a loss, with earnings descending from $43 billion in 2015 to around $41 billion in 2016.
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