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BEST Writing Task 1 IELTS Academic, 1st October
ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
The graph below shows four countries of residence of overseas students in Australia. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
SAMPLE ANSWER
The line graph illustrates the nationality of overseas students in Australia from 1982 to 2000.
Overall, there was an upward trend in the quantities of students from four selected countries: Indonesia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore. However, the change of Malaysia is the most modest.
There were no foreign students in Australia coming from Indonesia and Singapore in the first five-year stage. Throughout the remainder of the period, the figure of Indonesia experienced some significant fluctuations, while there was a gradual increase in the number of Singapore. In 2000, both Singapore and Indonesia reached just below twenty thousand students, but the number of Singapore was slightly higher.
Hong Kong shared the mutual starting point with two mentioned countries, while the quantities of Malaysian travelling to Australia for education in 1982 was nearly five thousand. The figure of Hong Kong witnessed a dramatic rise by 1998. After a peak of more than fifteen thousand students, stand trial underwent a sudden decrease, which was followed by a moderate increase. There was a stability in the statistic of Malaysia during the period of ten years. It fluctuated slightly in the last two years of the period and had the lowest point among the four countries in 2000 despite having the highest beginning point.
