Task 1 · pie chart · 1 samples

The pie charts show how a community centre allocated its budget in 2015 and 2025. 2015: staff 40%, facilities 30%, courses 20%, administration 10%. 2025: staff 35%, facilities 20%, courses 35%, administration 10%. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. Write at least 150 words.

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Ideas to explore

  • Compare budget shares rather than claim absolute spending changed.
  • Identify courses as the growing allocation and administration as stable.
  • Keep the description within the information supplied by the task.

Suggested structure

  1. Introduce what the charts measure.
  2. Summarise the reallocation.
  3. Describe the earlier distribution.
  4. Compare the later shares.
Useful vocabulary & examples
percentage points
the absolute difference between two percentages

A change from 40% to 35% is a fall of five percentage points.

remain unchanged
stay at the same value or position

The administration share remained unchanged.

be replaced by
be removed and have another feature put in the same place

The car park was replaced by a playground.

Sample answers

Target Band 9 · Original model answer

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The figures illustrate the distribution of a community centre’s budget among four categories in 2015 and 2025. Overall, the allocation shifted towards courses and away from staff and facilities. Staff received the largest share in 2015, but by 2025 courses and staff accounted for equal proportions. Administration’s share remained unchanged. In the earlier year, staff costs made up 40% of the budget, followed by fac…

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