BEST IELTS Academic Writing Task 1, 14th August

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IELTS ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1

The charts show the percentages of family income spent in different categories in South Korea and Singapore in the years 2000 and 2020. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

SAMPLE ANSWER

The given pie charts provide a comparison of various services which were purchased by family salary in South Korea and Singapore in 2000 and 2020.

From an overall perspective, one particularly interesting fact highlighted that the share of housing hosted the major proportion in both countries regardless of period. Noticeably, the spending for most of the categories witnessed an upward trend whereas the reversed pattern should be observed for food and other services.

Taking a first look at the South Korea diagram, it is obvious that disbursement for housing accounted for more than one-fifth in 2000 and increased by 10 percent after 20 years. Subsequently, the percentage of spending wages on transport raised from 20 percent in 2000 to 25 percent in 2020. Following that, the income consumed for the healthcare program made a threefold jump over a 20-year period. However, the family salary allocated for food was down by 4 percent and other categories roughly decrease by more than 20 percent between the two periods.

Moving to the Singapore pie chart, it is evident that payments for housing occupied more than one-third of family salary in 2000 and increase by 6 percent over 20 years. Next, the amount of income purchased for transport and health care system in Singapore was up to 2 times when compared with the initial percentage. Nevertheless, the number of wages paid for food and other programs decline by 11 percent and 8 percent respectively.

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