Ielts Academic Writing Task 1 Bar Chart shows percentage of Australia men and women in different age groups who did regular physical activity in 2010

The Bar Chart below shows the percentage of Australia men and women in different age groups who did regular physical activity in 2010.

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

The given bar chart elucidates proportion of men and women involved in some kind of physical activity in different age groups in Australia in 2010.

Overall,  most males were physically active in the youngest age group, while females in 45- 54, and patterns of age participation of males and females were in contrast to each other, except in the oldest  men and women, 65 and above, where ratio  was almost similar.

Highest number of males were active physically from 15 – 24 years, 52.8%. Beyond that there was a dip in the percentage of males until 35-44, 39.5%. The  ratio registered a gradual rise with advancment of age: from 45-54, 43.1% , 45.1% in 55-64 age group,  and 65 and over, 46.7%.

In contrast, the only 47.7% women were active between 15 and 24 years. The ratio witnessed an increment as the age rose, 48.9% in 25-34, 52.5% in 25-44 and 53.3% in 45-55. After this, participation of females declined to 47.1% in age group 65 and over.

 

Ielts Academic Writing Task 1 Table The Table Below gives information on consumer spending on different items in five different countries in 2002

The Table Below gives information on consumer spending on different items in five different countries in 2002.

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

Write at least 150 words

Ielts Academic Writing Task Table Consumer Spending 

The given table elucidates national consumer spending on three classes of goods and services in five countries: Ireland, Italy, Spain, Sweden and Turkey in 2002.

Quit strikingly, expenditure on food/drinks/tobaccos was highest in all classes, while leisure/education accounted for the lowest spending.  Turkish spent higher than others except in clothing and footwear, while Swedes incurred least on all items except leisure/ education,

On food and drinks, in terms of spending out of national expenditure, Turkish incurred highest, 32.14%, followed by Irish, 28.91%, while spending of rest of countries was under 20%: Spaniards spent 18.80%, followed by Italians, 16.36%, and Swedish, 15.77%  

Similarly, Turkish lead in spending out of their national expenditure on leisure and education, 4.33%, which was more than double of what Spaniards incurred, 1.98%. In this case, people of Sweden and Italy had almost identical spending, 3.22% and 3.20% respectively.  

In contrast, Italians lead when it came to spending on clothing and footwear, 9%. All other nationalities, except Swedish, their spending was 5.40%, spent around 6.5%.       

Ielts Academic Writing Task 1 Line Graph Railway Usage in Great Britain

The Graph below shows the number of passenger railways journeys made in Great Britain between 1950 and 2005.

Summarize the information by selecting and rpoeting the main features, and make comparisonbs where relevant.

Write at least 150 words

Ielts Academic Task 1  Line Graph  Great Britain Railway Usage 

The given line chart elucidates and compares usage patterns of three rail networks in Great Britain between 1950 and 2004/5.

Quite strikingly, the pattern of journeys made by National Rail Network and London Underground had comparable patterns, while light rail and metro systems registered a slow rise in passenger traffic in the corresponding period.

In 1950, 1000 million people used National rail networks, while just under 750 millions used London Underground. Between 1950 and 1980 both networks witnessed a fall, though the decline in passengers using national networks was steeper. But, after 1980, both the systems registered a recovery in passenger traffic till 2004 / 05 – the number of passengers using London Underground surpassed national network, breaching 1000 million mark, with national networks reaching almost the 1950 numbers.  

In contrast, light rail and metros were introduced between 1960 and 1970. Until 1980, there was not much increment, instead a decline was observed, however, from 1980 to 2005, an expansion in passenger traffic was observed, reaching almost 200 million.

Ielts Academic Writing task 1 Pie Chart Population Comparison in Yemen and Italy

The Charts below give information on the ages of the populations of Yemen and Italy in 2000 and 2050.

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 Population Changes 

The given charts elucidate changes in demographic composition, in terms of age, in Italy and Yemen between 2000 and 2050.

On an overall, both countries will experience similar trends – population of old people would rise though more steeply in Italy, while ratio of the youngest would decrease. However, where in Yemen proportion of people aged between 15-59 years would rise, it would decline in Italy.

In Yemen, in 2000, most of the population was aged between 0-14 years, 50.1%, it was followed by age group 15-59, 46.3%, and 60+ years, 3.6%. By 2050, where the ratio of people in age group 15-59 would swell to 57.%, and that of very old would rise to 5.7%, the number of the youngest would shrink to 37%.

But, Italy which had 61.6% people in 15-59 age group, followed by 60+, 24.1% and 0-14, 14.3%,  in 2000, may experience a contrasting trend. The ratio of people over 60 would be 42.3%, whereas, the population of 0-14 and 15-59 would fall to 11.5 and 46.2% respectively. 

   

Ielts Academic Writing Task 1 Diagram Horse evolution

The diagrams below show the development of the horse over a period of 40 million years. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

Ielts Academic Writing Task 1 Diagram

The given diagrams elucidate the evolution process of modern horse – from Eohippus to the horse we see today.

On an overall, the development of modern horse took forty million years and four stages. The first diagram depicts eohippus that appeared forty million years ago, it was smaller in size, and had four fingers foot. In the next ten million years, eohippus transformed into Mesohippus, which was slightly bigger than its predecessor; had short hair on the  back of its neck. The noticeable change occurred was in its foot structure where four fingers were replaced by three, and the middle finger had a bulb.

The Merychippus appeared 15 million ago, which was again bigger and had thicker hair and tail, with a larger foot, the structure of toes also expanded in size.

The species of modern horse is the largest, with a thick coat of hair and a tail. The anatomy of foot has witnessed drastic changes, as toes have given way to a hoof, a complex foot structure.

The final stage in the evolution of the horse is that of a modern horse. This species is largest in its lineage, which has a thick  coat of hair on the back of its neck and a thick and long tail.

Ielts Academic Writing Task 1 Ielts Graphs

The first graph below shows the weight (in tones) of fruit produced by a farm during each month in 2010, use of fertilizers, and the amount of rainfall, in millimeters, in each month.

Write a report summarizing the information. Select and describe the main  information and make comparisons where relevant.

Write at least 150 words.

 

Ielts Academic Writing Task 1 Graphs 

The given graphs compare fruit produced, fertilizers used and amount of rainfall, in a farm in 2010

Overall, trends of yield of fruits are inversely proportional to use of fertilizers and amount of rainfall – yield of fruit was high when use of fertilizers and rainfall was low.

In January, the harvest of fruit was 2.5 tone and stayed stable till April. After this, the yield rose dramatically and touched a peak of  almost 4.5 tonnes in September. From there on the yield declined to levels of January though the decline was more remarkable in the month of October.

While, the use of fertilizers rose from .5 tonnes to almost 1 tonne and declined to nearly zero in June , but from July to   November it rose, touching the peak in November, 0.7 tonnes and declining again. The rainfall seems to coincide with the fertilizer, falling from a high of 16 mm in January to 4mm in July and then rising to 14 mm in December.   

Ielts Academic Writing Task 1 The graphs below show the types of music albums purchased by different groups of people in Britain according to sex and age.

The graphs below show the types of music albums purchased by different groups of people in Britain according to sex and age.

Write a report for a university professor by describing the information shown below.

Write at least 150 words.   

Ielts Academic Writing Task 1 

 

The given bar graph elucidates the preferences of men and women and different age groups in terms of genre of music.

Overall, it can be observed that more men than women buy all kinds of music, and younger age groups  prefer pop and rock, while people aged over 45 years like classical music.

As far as, the gender based preferences us concerned, both males and  females, over 20% and 15% respectively, prefer pop and rock over classical, under 10% in both the sexes.

Age-wise preferences of music genre show that in case of pop and rock, buying preferences are almost identical: people aged between 25-34 years are dominating customers, 30% buying both pop and rock, followed by individuals between 16-24 years, 15%, and older than 45 years, less than 10%.

On the other hand, classical music is most preferred by people aged over 45 years, approximately 20%. Negligible numbers in other age groups prefer this type – though 15% people between 25 and 34 years buy this type too.

Ielts Academic Writing Task 1 Below is graph showing the incidence

Below is graph showing the incidence of mental illness ( as indicated by receipt of incapacity Benefit) amongst older UK males, from 1971-2015. The reform in the benefits system took place in 1995. 

Ielts Academic Writing Task 1

The given graph elucidates and compares the changes in mental illness, from 1970 to 1995 and after the incapacity benefit reforms introduced in 1995 till 2015.

Overall, observed that reforms brought about a  big decline in incapacity grants after the reforms were affected.

Prior to the reforms, there was a significant rise in incapacity benefit payouts between 1970 and 1995 in all age groups even though the problems seemed to be prominent in the 60-64 age group, rising from approximately 12% to nearly 28% in 1995. The other two age groups also witnessed a rise, from 7% to 18% in 65-69 years and 3% to 55-59 years.

Post reforms, the situation improved dramatically, there was an overall decline in the benefit payouts. The payouts plummeted steeply in 65-69 age group fell from 20% to less than 5%, but in other age groups the decline was not so significant. The fall in the 55-59 group was steady fell by 7%, while in age group the fall was about 10%  

Ielts Academic Writing Task 1 Graphs The Graph shows the percentage of male and female academic staff members across the faculties of a major university in 2015Iel

The Graph shows the percentage of male and female academic staff members across the faculties of a major university in 2015.

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

Write at least 150 words

Ielts Academic Writing Task 1 Graphs 

The given graphs presents and compares the information on gender wise representation in different departments, namely Engineering, Law, Education, Science of a university in 2015

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Overall, while engineering department had an overwhelming presence of men, women  dominated education faculty.  Other faculties had still fairer compositions, especially the department  of medicine.

Quite interestingly, engineering had 85% males with only 15% women teaching in this domain. Other departments that saw more men teaching were Science and Business, which had similar proportion of male teachers, 65%, and Law had a   slightly lesser but a majority of men – 60%.

On the other hand, female lecturers dominated education, 75%, with men only constituting one-fourth of total strength. Arts also had a major  of females, constituting 55% of the total faculty. 

Quite in a contrast, the department of medicine was more evenly distributed with females having just a slight edge over the men. In this faulty, female teachers were just above 50%, and the men just below 50%.   

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Ielts Academic Writing Task 1 Graphs The charts below give information about USA marriages and divorces rates between 1970 and 2000I

The charts below give information about USA marriages and divorces rates between 1970 and 2000, and the marital statis of adult americans in two of the years.

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

Ielts Writing Task 1 Graphs - Marriages and Divorces 

Write at least 150 words

The given charts elucidate information about number of marriages and divorces in the USA and changes in marital status between 1970-2000.

Overall, numbers of marriages fell in the given period though between 1970-1980, while te number of divorce cases initially increased then declined. The marital status also witnessed changes.

From 1970 to 1980 the number of marriages stayed stable at 2.5 millions, while legal separations registered a rise from 1 million to  nearly 1.4 million. From 1980 to 2000 marriages lesser and lesser American married – numbers fell from 2.5 to 2 million, similarly lesser numbers sought divorces – numbers fell to 1 million.

As far as the changes in marital status of adult Americans is concerned, there was a rise in number of people choosing to stay unmarried, from  12% to 20% , and getting a divorce, from nearly 2% to 10%. There was, however,  a 10% decline in the ratio of people getting married, fell from 70% to 60%, and a marginal decrease in widowed people, approximately 8% to 6%.  

Ielts Academic Writing task 1 Bar Graphs The chart below shows the total number of minutes (in billions) of telephone calls in the UK

The chart below shows the total number of minutes (in billions) of telephone calls in the UK, divided into three categories, from 1995 – 2002.

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

Write at least 150 words

The given bar chart elucidate and compares the data about minutes ( in billions) logged on three types of calls in the UK between 1995 and 2002.

Overall, it can be observed that even though the local calls made  from fixed line rose and fell, they still remained the highest, while long distance and mobile call minutes registered a contrasting rise through the similar period.

Fixed line local calls registered a rise from 70 billion minutes to 90 million minutes between 1995 and 1999, but fell back to 70 billion minutes from 1999 to 2004.

In contrast, the calls made to other parts of the country and overseas and mobile  registered a rise in the similar period though while the the number minutes on domestic and foreign calls remained ascended steadily, rise in number of mobile phone call minutes was negligible from 1995 to 1998, and after 1998 the number of minutes started rising significantly, rising dramatically nearly four-folds in a matter of next three years reaching 40 billion minutes.  

Sample Ielts Academic Writing Task 1 - Pie charts The pie-charts below show the percentage of water used for different purposes in sis areas of the world - II

The pie-charts below show the percentage of water used for different purposes in sis areas of the world.

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  Water Usage 

The given pie-charts elucidate information about the ratio of water consumption in different sectors in six regions across the world.

Overall, agriculture  happens to be the largest consumer of water in most of the regions: Central Asia, Africa, South East Asia and South America, except in Europe and North America, where manufacturing  claims a lion share of this resource; however, in South America household uses highest ratio of water among all regions.

Most of the specified areas indicate at an identical water usage pattern: agriculture uses an overwhelming quantity of water in Central Asia, 88%, Africa, 84% and South America, 71%. In these regions, domestic sector is the second biggest user followed by industry, while in Southeast  Asia, industry enjoys second highest demand followed by household sector.     

In contrast, Europe and North America witness a completely different pattern, in terms of demand of water in various sectors: in these regions secondary sector is largest consumer: 53% and 43% respectively, followed by primary sector, 32% and 39% respectively and household.

Sample Ielts Academic Writing Task 1 - Pie charts The pie-charts below show the percentage of water used for different purposes in sis areas of the worldI

The pie-charts below show the percentage of water used for different purposes in sis areas of the world.

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  Water Usage 

The given pie-charts compare the use of water in three sectors: primary, secondary and domestic, in six regions of the world

Overall, in most of the regions: Central Asia, South East Asia, Africa and South America, agriculture happens to be the major user of water, but in case of Europe and North America, demand for water is more in industry.

Most of the quoted regions had identical water utilization patterns, Central Asia, South East Asia, Africa and South America, water was used in huge quantity in primary sector, 88%, 84%, 81, 71% respectively. In these regions, except South East Asia – where manufacturing followed the agriculture 12% and eventually domestic 7%,  domestic sector was a distant second7%, 9% and 19% respectively, with the secondary sector using the least, 5% 7% and 10% respectively.

However, in Europe and North America demand in secondary sector  was highest, 53% and 48%. In these regions, agriculture was the second biggest consumer, 32%  and 39%, while domestic sector used least, 15% and 13% respectively.

Sample Ielts Academic Writing Task 1 - Graphs The Graph below shows the percentage of urban/sub-urban and rural households in the UK having internet access between 1999-2004

The Graph below shows the percentage of urban/sub-urban and rural households in the UK having internet access between 1999-2004

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 - Graph INternet Usage in the UK 

The given graph elucidates information about access to internet enjoyed by domestic users in urban-suburban and rural areas in the UK between 1999 and 2001

Overall,  although internet was accessed more by households in cities and suburbs than in rural areas, the gap narrowed  down by 2004. The difference, however, tended to expand between 2000 and 2002.

In 1999 the usage of internet in urban and suburban areas was almost 15%  which doubled up by 2000, 30%. From 2000 to 2002, the usage registered a steady rise of 20%, 10% each year. However, the growth in usage slowed down over the next two years, registering just 5% between 2002 and 2004.

In contrast, in rural areas the  use of internet in regional areas was slow to pick-up rising just  to 10% in 2001 from 1% in 1999, but in the next year the usage rose by 5%, touching nearly 15% in 2002. In the next two years – from 2002 to 2004, the use increased by 20%, 10% each year. 

Sample Ielts Academic Writing Task 1 - Stacked Bar Chart One Hundred adults, boys and girls in a city were asked to name the sports they participated in. The outcomes were recorded in a stacked bar chart

One Hundred adults, boys and girls in a city were asked to name the sports they participated in. The outcomes were recorded in a stacked bar chart.

Write a report for university professor elaborating the preferences. Make comparison where relevant.

Write in no more than 150 words. 

Ielts Academic Writing Task 1 - Graphs 

The given stacked chart elucidates the responses of 100 respondents, adults, girls and boys, who were surveyed to assess their favorite sports in a city.

On an overall, adults had least participation in all sports except in swimming and tennis, while boys favored football more, and girls liked hockey. Also, boys featured in most of the sports prominently.

It can be observed that swimming was the most popular activity in this city: the boys and girls had equal participation, while the adults were slight lesser in number though this was the second most favorite activity among adults. Similarly, tennis – the second most popular activity besides hockey, had equal representation of  all categories of respondents, this was also the most favorite sport practiced by adults.

In contrast, football and basketball were more popular among boys than girls, especially in football, the participation of girls was negligible.

However, in case of hockey, most of the participants were girls, an overwhelming number.  

Sample Ielts Academic Writing Task 1 - Graphs The Charts Below Give information about the way in which water was used in different countries in 2000.

The Charts Below Give information about the way in which water was used in different countries in 2000.

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

Write at least 150 words

Ielts Academic Writing Task 1 - Water Usage  in different countries in 2000.

The given pie-chart and bar graph elucidate trends in usage of water by different sectors of economy in 4 countries, in 2000.

As is observed, at the global level, most of the water is consumed by agriculture, 70%, followed by Industry, 22% and household sector, 8%.

China had an identical usage pattern to that of the world, 69% of water was used in primary sector, 22% in secondary and 9% in domestic. Similarly, India too had almost the same consumption pattern though activities connected with primary sector consumed an overwhelmingly 92% of water. Here household sector had a consumption of 5% and manufacturing 3%.

In contrast, New Zealand and Canada had disparate water utilization trends. Where in New Zealand, Primary and Domestic Sectors almost homogeneous usage, 44% and 46% respectively, and industry accounted for merely 10%,  Canadian consumption was dominated by industrial sector, 80%, followed by households and Agriculture.

On an overall, except China, all the other quoted countries had contrasting consumption patterns through agriculture remained a major consumer in most countries. 

Sample Ielts Academic Writing Task 1 - Levels of participation in education and science in developing and industrialized countries in 1980 and 1990

The Charts below show the levels of participation in education and science in developing and industrialized countries in 1980 and 1990.

Write a report for a university professor describing the information shown below

Ielts Writing Task Academic 1-  Graphs 

The given charts elucidate dissimilarity between elite and poor nations in terms of education and science and technology development.

Quite strikingly, there is a big difference between  developed and under-developed  countries, and the gap actually widened.

In case of schooling, in 1980s, the number of years spent at schools was almost 8.5 years, while in poor nations it was two years. In the next decade, the length of schooling in rich countries rose by another two years, while in developing nations there was a negligible rise,

Similarly, the number technicians and scientists rose significantly in the quoted period in rich countries, from just above  40 to approximately 70 per thousand, but in under-developed nations, there was a small rise in numbers from 10 to 18 per thousand.

However, investments in research and development, the trends were quite dissimilar, as  even though the participation in  R&D rose by two-folds in rich countries, from 150 to 300 billion, in poor countries there was a drop from 50 to 25 billion.  

Sample Ielts Academic Writing Task 1 - The two pie charts below show some employment patterns in Great Britain in 1992I

The two pie charts below show some employment patterns in Great Britain in 1992.

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

Write at least 150 words.

ielts Academic Writing Task 1 - Men and Women Employment Patterns in UK  

The given pie charts elucidate choice of employment - manual and non-manual - of men and women in UK in 1992.

It can be clearly seen that more women than men prefer non-manual work though other manual work does have a sizable representation of female workers, while men enjoy almost an even distribution over both manual and non-manual employment, 52% and 48% respectively. Quite strikingly, least percentage of  both the genders go for jobs as general laborers.

A majority of women choose clerical and related work, 31%, followed by managerial jobs, 29%. This precedes, inclination to other manual work, 27%, while very few females choose to work in craft, 3%, and as general laborers, 1%.

On the other hand, most common occupation for the men is managerial and professional work, 36%. this is followed by other manual work, 26%, crafts and similar, 24%, 6% each in clerical and non-manual work,  Least number of male workers choose to engage as general laborers

Sample Ielts Academic Writing Task 1 - The chart below shows the amount of leisure time enjoyed by men and women of different employment status

The chart below shows the amount of leisure time enjoyed by men and women of different employment status.

Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information shown below.

You should write at least 150 words

Sample Ielts Academic Writing Task 1 - Graph

The given bar graph elucidates amount of time spent on leisure by men and women in different categories: employed full-time, working part time, jobless, retired and housewives, per week in 1998-99.

It can be clearly observed that  retired and jobless males, over 80 hours, and females, over 70 hours, spent most time on free time activities, and the least was devoted by ones working full-time, men 50 hours and women approximately 38 hours.

Similarly, housewives gave leisure activities almost 60 hours in a week, followed by women engaged in part time jobs: 40 hours.

Quite strikingly, it is noticed that where information about men and women, spending their time on free time activities, is shared, men tended to dedicate more than their female counterparts even though women choosing to remain at home as homemakers expended more time, per week, than males engaged in full-time work.

In conclusion, the variation in number of hours spent per week, in case of men, is not as great as in the women.