IELTS Writing Task 1- Sample 5 (Model Answer with guidelines).

The chart below shows the different levels of post-school qualifications in Australia and the proportion of men and women who held them in 1999.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparison where relevant. Write at least 150 words.

 

This is the model answer provided by teacher at RTC ENGLISH with guidelines.

1.  Re-Write / rephrase the title/task (try to make it simpler and more straightforward.
   The bar chart compares the levels of qualifications that are available in Australia after school and the percentages of male and female students who studied for those qualifications in 1999.
   
   
2. Identify the main points described by the data ( look for a pattern in the data and describe it).
   Overall, men obtained more qualifications than females. In addition, more women than men studied at the undergraduate level and a far higher proportion of men obtained post-graduate level credentials.
   
   
3. Describe the data in a clear and organised way (are you describing change or difference - in this case a difference but in the past tense).
   Far more males studied for a vocational diploma, 90%, while only one in ten students was female, 10%.
   Undergraduate diplomas and degrees were more popular with women. Twice as many women, over 70%, studied for an undergraduate diploma than men. The difference was less significant at the degree level, where over 50% were female and just below 50% for males.
   
   The majority of post-graduate students were men. 70% of post-graduate diploma students were male, more than twice as many as women, and 60% of Master's degree students were men and 40% were female.
   
   
4. Write at least 150 words.
   152 words