Academic Task 1. Part 2. Pie Charts & Data Tables
Chart 7. Example Task 1 Question and Answer. Data Table - School Attendance in England & Germany. Band 9 Video Lesson below ...
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The chart gives information about secondary school attendance in England and Germany. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.
Write at least 150 words.
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Chart 8. Practice Test. Table - School Accommodation at English Universities.
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The chart gives information about student accommodation at universities in England. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.
Write at least 150 words.
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Chart 7. Band 9 ANSWER KEY
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Chart 7. You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.
The chart gives information about school attendance in England and Germany. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.
Write at least 150 words.
Below, you will see how I reduced the amount of relevant data to write about by annotating the chart.
Model Answer written in 20 minutes. See above video.
Introduction (Identify what, where, when the data is about & the unit of measurement)
The data is shown as a table, which compares (in percentages) the attendance of high school students at different schools in England and Germany over a 20-year period from 2005 to 2015.
Overview (A short description of what you can see GENERALLY in the data - The GENERAL TREND)
Overall, it can clearly be seen that while in Germany, public government school (PGS) attendance fell considerably over the two decades to 2015, in England PGS attendance increased marginally. Notably, attendance at semi private schools (SPS) was higher in England in 2005 than in Germany, but by 2015, this had changed.
Paragraph 1 (Contrast 2 or 3 main features / use some complex sentences of contrast)
In more detail, although far more German high school students attended PGS than English students in 1995, at just over half (52%) compared to about a quarter (24%) respectively, by 2015 the difference had narrowed; German attendance at PGS dropped to just under two-thirds (38%) while English student attendance at PGS grew slightly to 27%.
Paragraph 2 (Contrast 2 or 3 MORE main features / use some complex sentences of contrast)
Interestingly, the numbers of English students going to semi-independents schools (SIS) was by far the highest in 1995 at more than half (52%) of all 11 to 16 year old pupils, but this declined marginally to 39% by the end of the period. Conversely, German attendance at SIS rose from just under a fifth (18%) to nearly a third (31%). Unfortunately, Germany showed that specialist schools had fallen by two-thirds over the 20 years, whereas England had nearly doubled its provision from 6 to 11%. Band 8.5.