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BEST IELTS Academic Writing Task 1, 9th July
IELTS ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1

IELTS ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
The charts below show the workforce profile at the top management jobs by ethnicity and race in South Africa based on a 2015/16 report.
Write a report for a university teacher describing the information shown in the diagrams below.

SAMPLE ANSWER
The pie chart compares the South African top management workforce scenario based on different races and ethnicities while the bar graph depicts the same ratio in the public and private sectors. The data is taken from a report published in 2015/16. It is evident that top management positions in South Africa are white dominant and whites are over-presented in private job sectors while the Africans occupy the majority of top positions in public sector jobs.
The pie chart reveals that whites are noticeably over-presented in the higher job positions in South Africa as they accounted for over 68% of all top management jobs compared to only 4.7% and 14.3% Coloured and Africans in such positions. Indians represent just over 8.5% of this workforce while foreigners work in 3.5% of such top-level positions.
The bar graph depicts that South African top public sector jobs, over 73%, are dominated by African workers while white over-presents the private sector jobs. Every three out of five top private-sector jobs are occupied by whites. Finally, Indians accounted for 8 and 6 percentage private and public job positions, higher than the ratio of Coloured and foreigners’ job ratio in top management in South Africa.
