User-written IELTS example
Writing Academic Task 1 Band 9.0 Example
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Ideas to explore
- Town B leads initially; Town A leads at the end.
- Compare gains in each five-year interval without assuming a precise crossover year.
- Keep the description within the information supplied by the task.
Suggested structure
- Introduce the dates and unit.
- Give an overview of growth and the reversal.
- Compare the first interval.
- Compare the second interval and overall growth.
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.
Answer analysis
Task Achievement
The overview identifies the reversal and avoids inventing an exact crossover date between observations.
Precision
Absolute increases and combined totals are calculated correctly.
Task Prompt
User Essay Analysis
Review the public answer with report-style highlights.
The figures show how many households had solar panels in two towns at three points between 2015 and 2025, with the totals measured in thousands.
Overall, the number increased in both towns. Town B initially had more households with panels, but the faster growth recorded in Town A meant that their positions were reversed by 2025.
In 2015, 2,000 households in Town A had solar installations, compared with 4,000 in Town B. Five years later, these figures stood at 6,000 and 7,000 respectively. Town A had therefore tripled its total over the first interval, reducing Town B’s lead from 2,000 households to 1,000.
The contrast became more pronounced in the following five years. Town A gained a further 8,000 households, reaching 14,000 in 2025, while Town B added 3,000 to finish at 10,000. Over the decade as a whole, Town A’s increase of 12,000 households was twice Town B’s gain of 6,000. The combined total for the towns consequently rose from 6,000 to 24,000 households.
