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Writing Academic Task 1 Band 5.0 Example
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Ideas to explore
- Central remained the busiest and had the largest numerical increase.
- Riverside grew moderately, while Hilltop was the only library to decline.
- Total visits rose from 260,000 to 325,000.
Suggested structure
- Introduce what the table measures, including units and years.
- Give an overview of the main pattern and the exception.
- Compare increases at Central and Riverside.
- Describe Hilltop and, if useful, the combined total.
Useful vocabulary & examples
- accounted for
- formed a share of a total
Central accounted for more than half of all visits in 2025.
- by contrast
- introduces a difference
By contrast, visits to Hilltop declined.
- be replaced by
- be removed and have another feature put in the same place
The car park was replaced by a playground.
Answer analysis
Task Achievement
Reports all six figures, but the overview repeats the ranking without clearly summarising the contrasting trends.
Grammar
“The table show”, “it also increase” and “this library decrease” illustrate recurring agreement errors. Past-tense reporting would be more consistent.
Next step
State the main trend and the single decline in an overview, then group the growing libraries together.
Task Prompt
User Essay Analysis
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The table show the number of people who visit three libraries in 2015 and 2025. The libraries are Central, Riverside and Hilltop. The number is in thousands. Central has the biggest number in the table and Hilltop has the smallest number.
In 2015 Central has 120 thousand visits and in 2025 it has 180 thousand visits. This is a big change and the library is very popular. Riverside has 80 thousand in 2015 and 100 thousand in 2025. It also increase but not as much as Central library. There is 20 thousand more visits to Riverside.
Hilltop library is different because it has 60 thousand visits at first and 45 thousand visits at the end. This library decrease by 15 thousand. The numbers for Central are bigger than Riverside in both years. In the first year the difference is 40 thousand and in the second year it is 80 thousand. Overall the total visits are more in 2025 than 2015.
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