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Writing Academic Task 1 Band 8.0 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
Uses accurate proportional changes and clearly distinguishes gross growth at individual libraries from net growth overall.
Lexical Resource
“More modest”, “moved in the opposite direction” and “partly offset” describe the data precisely.
Next step
Maintain this focus on significant patterns; do not add speculative explanations for attendance changes.
Task Prompt
User Essay Analysis
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The table presents annual visits to three city libraries in 2015 and 2025, measured in thousands.
Overall, library use increased, driven principally by growth at Central. This library remained the busiest, while Hilltop, already the least visited location, was the only one to record a fall.
Central’s annual total climbed by half, from 120,000 to 180,000 visits. Riverside also gained visitors, but its increase was more modest: from 80,000 to 100,000, or 25%. Consequently, Central’s lead over Riverside doubled, widening from 40,000 visits in 2015 to 80,000 a decade later.
Hilltop moved in the opposite direction, with visits dropping by a quarter, from 60,000 to 45,000. By 2025, Central received four times as many visits as Hilltop, compared with twice as many in 2015. Across all three locations, the annual total rose from 260,000 to 325,000, a gain of 65,000 visits. The increase at Central alone was nearly as large as the net rise for the entire group, since Hilltop’s decline partly offset Riverside’s growth.
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