Task 1 · multiple graphs · 18 samples

The charts below show what UK graduate and postgraduate students who did not go into full-time work did after leaving college in 2008. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

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Ideas to explore

  • Further study was the leading destination for both graduates and postgraduates.
  • Voluntary work was the least common option in each group.
  • Graduate counts exceeded postgraduate counts in all four categories, with the biggest absolute difference in further study.

Suggested structure

  1. Paraphrase the chart topic and specify the year and population.
  2. Give an overview of the shared highest and lowest categories.
  3. Report graduate figures in rank order, grouping the leading choices and the smaller categories.
  4. Report postgraduate figures in the same order to make comparisons easy.
  5. Close with the most notable difference between the two groups.
Useful vocabulary & examples
the most common destination
The option chosen by the largest number of people.

Further study was the most common destination for both groups.

ranked second
Was the second-highest category in a set of figures.

Part-time work ranked second for graduates.

by contrast
A linking phrase used to introduce a noticeably different figure or fact.

By contrast, only 3,500 graduates undertook voluntary work.

the largest difference
The greatest gap between two compared figures.

The largest difference between the groups was in further study.

Sample answers

AI-completed learning example

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The given bar charts give information about how English graduate and post graduate students who do not have full time job spend their time after leaving collage in 2008. It can be clearly seen that, graduates students accounted for majority of the students when it compared with postgraduates students in UK. However, regarding graduate and postgraduate students, the charts show four destinations after college: part-ti…

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The given 2 bar charts illustrate what did graduate and postgraduate students from UK after finishing school in 2008 From the graduate’s chart it’s clearly seen that the higher numerous of students which consist 29,665 decide to study further. Meanwhile 3,500 graduates did voluntary work while 17,735 did only part-time work. As it shown by the postgraduate chart, further study was also the most common choice, at 2,72…

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AI-completed learning example

187 words · Illustrative target band

This bar chart depicts in 2008 UK students weather be graduate or postgraduate who did not go part time work after leaving college . It is clear from the graph that UK graduate students did work partly led with 17.735 percentage. Whereas the number of students that did part time job was 2,535%. UK graduates also had 3,500 students in voluntary work, while 29,665 continued to further study. The number of graduates who…

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