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BEST IELTS Academic Writing Task 1, 31st August
IELTS ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
IELTS ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
The charts show information concerning speed-camera use, together with statistics on road accidents, for the city of Melbourne. Summaries the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
SAMPLE ANSWER
The graph shows the rates of Melbourne’s implementation of speed cameras, compared with road accidents, including fatalities, from 2002 to 2005.
Looking as a whole, these photographic devices were installed with increasing zeal” (and, undoubtedly, correspondingly* higher revenues”); however, this had no correlation whatsoever with the prevalence of accidents, which, with utter* indifference*, only worsened. Additionally, the degree of lethality on the roads remained significant, and similarly unaffected throughout.Regarding these cameras, the number began at its lowest level of 30, after which it increased with an exponential* gradient*, making a two-fold leap in the last year alone, by which time it had reached almost 150.
Moving onto auto-accidents, the figures paint a rather bleak* picture. For the first three years, they merely fluctuated (apparently randomly) at around 3%, before angling* upwards to finish at the highest point of 3.5.
As for fatalities, these mimic*, in reduced proportions, the erratic* path charted by the accident rate, remaining for the most part at about 0.5%, or one loss of life per six incidents on the road. Sadly, this figure also migrated higher, finishing with an anomalous* spike”, which lifted it to 1.5% – the worst rate of all- before withdrawing to one. Cynically, one sees here only blatant revenue*- raising under the hypocritical stance of enhancing safety, clearly contradicted” by the data.
