IELTS Aid (Practice Essays)

Sample report: The bar chart compares a country’s total export earnings in billion dollars in five different products in 2015 and 2016. The table reveals how each products’ value in percentage changed in those two years. Overall, the first graph presents that the country’s earnings in exported products rose in 2016 except for gems and jewelry. The table reveals though that four out of five categories grew in percentage value by 2016. From the bar graph, during both years, petroleum products sold more than the other categories; while textiles ranked the lowest. A considerable climb in earnings can be noticed for the majority of the products especially with textiles which jumped from a little over 25 billion dollars to about 31 billion. In contrast, gems and jewelry had a loss of around 3 billion dollars from its initial collection of approximately 43 billion. Agricultural products showed almost no change in both years with roughly 30 billion dollars. As for the ta...

REPORT STRUCTURE: Paragraph1: Paraphrased topic + Overall/Overview (if there are two or more graphs, you need to explain the main data of each graph in one sentence) P2: 1st detail mentioned in the overview if you only have one graph (Details of the first graph, if you have two or more graphs) P3: 2 nd detail from the overview if you only have one graph (Details of the second graph if you have two or more graphs P4: Strange information like a different trend or an abnormal data seen in the graph. (This can be rare) Sample essay: The graph presents the total number of British male and female students who are studying fulltime and part-time. It shows that the study was conducted once every ten years from 1970/71 to 1990/91. As can be seen, part-time education is more preferred by both genders in all periods. Also, in every period, there is an increase in students in both education category but the huge jump was recorded during the first decade of the stu...

This blog will explain how to achieve a good score in one of the band descriptors in the first IELTS Academic Writing task. According to the public band descriptor, a high score is given if: the output fully satisfies all the requirements of the task; clearly presents a fully developed response (Band 9)  covers all requirements of the task sufficiently; presents, highlights and illustrates key features/bullet points clearly and appropriately (Band 8)  covers the requirements of the task; presents a clear overview of main trends, differences or stages ; clearly presents and highlights key features/bullet points but could be more fully extended (Band 7) How to get your desired band score? Follow the instructions in the task carefully.  Here's a step-by-step guide. 1. You must paraphrase the given topic sentence. Don't forget that using the same words from the task topic is not allowed. 2. SUMMARISE the information by selecting and reporting the main fe...

Sample report: The visual data represents the generation and use of electricity of ten countries in 2014. Overall, the electrical production slightly exceeded the consumption in all countries except Germany. The top countries that manufactured electricity the most were China, the United States, and Russia. China registered an electricity generation of almost 5,400 (billion kWh). A rate that is two times bigger than Russia and a thousand kWh more than America. The lowest electricity production was in the Republic of Korea with just 485.1 billion kWh. As for electrical consumption, the top countries were the same. The rate gaps of the production and use were all minimal. Moreover, the country with the lowest electricity utilization was also the Republic of Korea. It should be highlighted though that one country, Germany, showed a different graph. Among all ten countries, this nation consumed more electricity that its production. The production was about 530 billion ...

Sample essay: The visual information represents the proportion of physically active males and females from 15 to 65 years old and over in Australia in the year 2010. It can be noted from the graph that women exercised more than men. There was an evidence of a gradual increase in the number of women who regularly worked out while men showed a significant decrease in percentage. More than 50 percent of men from 15 to 24 exercised daily. This is approximately 5 percent higher than women from that age group. However, almost 10 percent of males stopped working out regularly from ages 25 to 34 while females slightly increased to almost 50 percent. This rise continued from ages 35 to 64 wherein the proportion was approximately around 52-53% then declined to less than 50 percent. As for the men, although they gained the largest proportion of people doing regular physical activity in their early twenties, their percentage saw a sudden more than 10 percent downfall from their early...