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Writing Academic Task 1 Band 7.0 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
Selects the principal trends and gives relevant comparisons without inventing reasons for them.
Coherence & Cohesion
The overview, growing libraries and declining library form a clear progression.
Next step
Keep comparisons selective. A shorter closing sentence could avoid repeating information already visible in the overview.
Task Prompt
User Essay Analysis
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The table compares the annual number of visits to Central, Riverside and Hilltop public libraries in 2015 and 2025, with figures expressed in thousands.
Overall, the combined number of visits increased, although this growth was not shared by every library. Central attracted the most visits in both years and recorded the largest increase, whereas Hilltop experienced a decline.
Visits to Central rose from 120,000 in 2015 to 180,000 in 2025, an increase of 60,000. Riverside showed a smaller rise of 20,000, reaching 100,000 at the end of the period. As a result, the gap between these two libraries widened from 40,000 to 80,000 visits.
In contrast, the number of visits to Hilltop fell from 60,000 to 45,000. It remained the least visited library, and its figure in 2025 was exactly one quarter of Central’s. Taken together, the three libraries received 325,000 visits in 2025 compared with 260,000 in 2015. Central therefore contributed most of the overall increase of 65,000.
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