IELTS academic writing task 1: How to improve your score
IELTS academic writing task 1: How to improve your score
In this task, students are expected to summarize and compare information from a graph, chart, table or diagram, or a combination of these. The following table gives an overview of the don’ts and do’s of academic writing task 1.
| How to improve your score | |
| Don’ts | Do’s |
| Copy the given introduction | Rewrite the given introduction in your own language. |
| Example: Given introduction: The bar graph shows the percentage of male and female academic staff members in different faculties of a particular university in 2008. |
Rewritten introduction: The bar graph provides information about the proportion of men and women who taught in seven different faculties of a university in 2008. |
| Write the report in one paragraph. | Write in small paragraphs: Introduction, 2 main body paragraphs and overview. |
| Write about each and everything given in the task. | Look at the data carefully. Identify the most obvious features (e.g. highest/lowest values, major changes or trends) and report them. |
| Write your opinion about the data. | Only summarize the given information and make comparisons where they make sense. |
| Illegible (difficult to read) handwriting. | Write neatly. |
| Writing too few words. | Count the number of words.
Task 1: minimum 150 words |
| Writing too many words. | Count the number of words.
Task 1: maximum 200-210 words |
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