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IELTS Report, topic: A line graph of wages growth

You are advised to spend a maximum of 20 minutes on this task.

The graph below gives information on wages of Somecountry over a ten-year period. Write a report for a university tutor describing the information shown.

You should write at least 150 words.

Wages growth line graph

The describes the growth of wages in Somecountry from the year 1993 to 2003.

The growth started at two percent in 1993, but it didn’t stay there very long before it rapidly doubled in 1994. Further on, the percentages to three percent in 1995, stayed steady for a year, before starting to rise slowly and ending up just under four percent in 1997. 1998 was the best year where the wages growth peaked at six percent.

However, after 1998 the wages grew less and less nearly every year. Only a year , the percentage dropped to well under three percent, and stayed there on roughly three percent till 2000. In 2002 the wages reached the lowest point of just one percent growth. Luckily the growth rose in 2003 at under two percent.

Overall, the growth rate in wages in Somecountry has shown striking changes through the ten years.

This is a good report. It covers the task, is divided correctly into paragraphs and the vocabulary is suitable. Its problems are that it has fewer than 150 words (146) and there are some grammatical errors. Assuming the corrections were made, this looks like a Band 7 report.

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5 thoughts on “IELTS Report, topic: A line graph of wages growth”

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  2. there are some gramatical error that needs to be reformed in order to not only for improving score but also for student clarification

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