Sample Ielts Academic Writing Task 1 - The charts below show what UK graduate and post graduate students who not go into full-time work after leaving college in 2008.

Writing Task 1

You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.

The charts below show what UK graduate and post graduate students who not go into full-time work after leaving college in 2008.

Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

Write at least 150 words

Ielts Academic Writing task 1 - Graphs 

The given charts illustrate destination of graduates and post graduates who did not join employment after completing college in 2008.

The information depicted in both the charts clearly indicates at similar trends in terms of activities taken up by graduates and post graduates. The data shows that most of the graduates, 29665, and post graduates, 2725 chose to study further. The number of graduates taking up part-time work was 17735, a good 40% less than those pursuing higher studies.

This was followed by students pursuing graduation and post graduation going in for part time employment even though the number of post graduates, 2535, taking up part-time jobs was only slightly less than those taking up further studies.

The third most important strata was of those who remained without work: 16235 graduates and 1625 post graduates.

The inclination to take up voluntary services seemed  be to be on the last priority for both categories of pupils, only 3500 graduates and 345 post graduates chose to offer voluntary services.