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Australian Employment in Five Work Types

The chart below shows the number of people employed in five types of work on one region of Australia in 2001 and 2008.

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

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Key features: Australian Employment in Five Work Types

WhyThis is aBar chart — it asks you to compare the most important categories.

SoWe split the points intoOverview(the biggest differences or patterns)andKey features(figures and comparisons worth reporting).

Overview

2 points

Key features

5 points

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Score details

Response 01
Estimated band6.0/ 9

Overall assessment

The response covers all five sectors and provides an overview of the largest and smallest employers. However, the overview understates computing’s growth, and several details are inaccurate or confusing, particularly the sales increase, the paired computing and nursing figures, and the claim that accounting was unchanged. More precise numerical comparisons and simpler phrasing would improve the report’s reliability.

TA

Task Achievement

The response addresses the task with an appropriate overview and covers all five sectors, but several data points are inaccurate or unclear, including the claim that accounting employment remained unchanged and the confusing figures given for computing and nursing.

6.0
CC

Coherence and Cohesion

The response moves logically from introduction and overview to increases and decreases, using line breaks to mark these sections. Some links are awkward, especially “After then”, and the paired figures for computing and nursing are difficult to follow.

6.0
LR

Lexical Resource

There is a reasonable range of vocabulary for employment trends, but expressions such as “time of tenure” and “even more inferior level” are awkward or imprecise. Direct sector labels and neutral descriptions of change would make the report clearer.

6.0
GRA

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

A mix of simple and complex structures is attempted with mostly clear meaning, though errors in tense, punctuation of numbers, and phrasing, such as 'the former... in the former', recur throughout.

6.0

What to work on next

Verify every figure against the chart before writing, and express comparisons in plain, precise language to avoid contradictory or muddled data statements.

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