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BEST IELTS Academic Writing Task 1, 21st September
ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
The graph compares the percentage of international and the percentage of UK students gaining second class degrees or better at a major UK university. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features.
SAMPLE ANSWER
The bar graph illustrates the differences between the UK and international students’ percentages of second class degree achievement across seven subjects at a major university in the UK.
Overall, the proportions of international student were higher than that of the UK in Electrical, Information technology while UK students had advantages in English literature, art history, law, and sociology.
On the one hand, home and international students had the same proportions in terms of nursing and accountancy which were about 75% and 60% respectively. However, there was around 85% of international gained a good degree in Information technology whereas the figure for the UK was approximately 55%. In addition, international students gaining second class degrees or more in electrical engineering took up for 5% less than that of IT while the figure for home students was 61%.
On the other hand, there were 80% of UK students achieving art history and sociology which were respectively about 10% and 5% higher than that of international students. Analogously, regarding English literature and International law proportions, those of home students were 75% and 70% while those figures for international students were about 58% and 45% respectively.
