Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

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IELTS Writing Task 1 question

The table shows the number of fatal, serious and slight injuries resulting from gun and knife crime in Great Britain from 1998 to 2007 and the percentage increase for each degree of injury over the period.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

Great Britain - Gun and Knife Crime statistics - 1998-2007

Student answer (Band 6.0)

The given table illustrates a comparison of results such as fatal, serious and slight injuries from gun and knife crime in Great Britain between 1998 and 2007. It also shows the proportion in which each degree of injury increased throughout the years.

Overall, fatal injuries has a fluctuating trend whereas, serious and slight injuries have increased steadily, resulting the total number to rise as well. The percentage of slight injured citizens has remained higher than the other two catagories.

Serious and slight injuries contributes the majority in the total injuries. There was a rise in the number of serious injuries from the year 1998 to the year 2004, after which there was a slight dip, before increasing again in [redacted phone]. Similarly, slight injuries also rose till the year 2005 and went down slightly the next year.

Fatal injuries has the least number of victims. The number rose from 1998 to 2002 and reached its peak at 95. After that the figure decreased till the year 2004 to 68 before rising slightly and dipped again. Percentage of all the injuries has increased throughout the years. Fatal injuries has the least amount which is 18%. Serious and slight injuries have 194% and 405% increase rate. Total number of injuries also rose 342%.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0

You identify the main pattern that fatal injuries fluctuated while serious and slight injuries generally rose, and you include the reported percentage increases. The figures for fatal injuries and the peak of 95 are accurate. However, some descriptions are imprecise: slight injuries did not rise steadily, as they jumped sharply from 1,862 to 3,424 in 2004–05 before falling to 3,296, and serious injuries rose to 476 in 2005–06 after a dip. The overview also says the total rose, but does not highlight its sharp increase to 3,912 and subsequent fall. Develop these key comparisons more fully and distinguish the final year, for which only fatal data are shown, from the earlier complete years.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0

The response has a clear overall structure: an introduction, an overview, and paragraphs describing the injury categories and percentage changes. Sequencing is generally understandable, and transitions such as “Similarly” and “After that” help connect comparisons. However, the organisation becomes less clear when several trends and percentage figures are combined in the final paragraph, and “Percentage of all the injuries has increased throughout the years” does not clearly introduce the specific percentage-change data. Some linking is also mechanical, while references such as “the next year” and “the year 2004” require the reader to infer the exact table periods. Group the data more deliberately and use precise year labels to make progression and comparisons easier to follow.

Lexical Resource: Band 6.0

You use an adequate range of task-related vocabulary, including “fluctuating trend,” “peak,” “decreased,” and “percentage increase,” so the main information is generally clear. There are, however, some inaccurate or awkward choices that limit precision. “The percentage of slight injured citizens” is not an appropriate way to describe the table, which reports numbers of injuries rather than percentages of citizens; “slight injuries” is the clearer term. “Catagories” is misspelled, and “the total number to rise” is an awkward collocation. Also, “least amount” is less suitable for countable injuries than “lowest number.” Choose precise statistical language and check spelling and collocations to make the report more natural.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You attempt both simple and more complex sentence forms, including the contrast in “Overall, fatal injuries has a fluctuating trend whereas…” and the sequence “after which there was a slight dip, before increasing again.” Meaning is usually recoverable, but some errors in agreement and sentence construction remain. For example, “fatal injuries has” should be “fatal injuries have,” and “Serious and slight injuries contributes” should be “contribute.” The phrase “resulting the total number to rise” needs a grammatical construction such as “resulting in a rise in the total.” In “before rising slightly and dipped again,” the verb forms are not parallel; use “before rising slightly and dipping again.” More consistent agreement and control of verb patterns would improve accuracy.

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