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Academic Task 1: Household spending (two pie charts)

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Task

The two pie charts show how an average household in one country spent its income in 1995 and 2015. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

Category1995 (%)2015 (%)
Housing2834
Food2517
Transport1415
Leisure1014
Clothing126
Other1114

Band 7.0 answer

The pie charts compare the way an average household in one country divided its income among six categories in 1995 and 2015.

Overall, spending on housing and leisure grew, whereas food and clothing took up a smaller share of the budget. Housing was the largest category in both years.

In 1995, housing made up 28% of spending, just ahead of food at 25%. Twenty years later, the gap had widened considerably, with housing rising to 34% and food falling to 17%. Clothing showed the sharpest relative decline, halving from 12% to 6%.

Meanwhile, leisure increased from 10% to 14%, and the share spent on other items rose by three percentage points to 14%. Transport remained the most stable category, at 14% and then 15%.

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Why this scores 7.0

One note for each marking criterion.

Task response
Selects the main changes and makes relevant comparisons; the overview is clear.
Coherence and cohesion
Well organised: biggest categories, then smaller ones. Reference and linking are accurate.
Lexical resource
Suitable vocabulary for proportions (made up, took up, share, halving). Some repetition.
Grammatical range and accuracy
Mostly accurate with a range of comparative structures.
Task achievement
All required features are covered with accurate data.
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