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Family Weekly Spending in 1968 and 2018

The chart below gives information about how families in one country spent their weekly income in 1968 and in 2018.

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

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Key features: Family Weekly Spending in 1968 and 2018

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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Response 01

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Score details

Response 01
Estimated band5.0/ 9

Overall assessment

The response covers most categories and attempts an overview, which is its strongest aspect, but the data reporting is often unclear and several figures and categories are confused or unsupported by the chart. Language control is weak throughout, with frequent grammatical breakdowns and imprecise wording that obscures meaning.

TA

Task Achievement

The response attempts an overview and covers several categories with some accurate figures (e.g. food falling from 35% to about half), but category labels and data are frequently confused or garbled, such as the unclear housing reference, the misreported fuel and power change, and the incoherent sentence about personal goods and transport.

5.0
CC

Coherence and Cohesion

There is a visible overall structure with an introduction, overview, and detail paragraphs, but progression within paragraphs is hard to follow because referents like 'it', 'its utilization of it', and 'the consumption of income' do not clearly link to categories.

5.5
LR

Lexical Resource

Vocabulary shows some range of change-related language, but there are frequent imprecise or inappropriate items such as 'weekly salary consumed', 'alternative eight things', and 'usage of had started', which reduce clarity.

5.0
GRA

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

Sentence structures are attempted with some complex forms, but errors are frequent and sometimes impede meaning, including 'its utilization of it', 'the usage of had started by8%for leisure', and missing or misplaced articles and prepositions.

5.0

What to work on next

Accurately match each category with its correct figures for both years and proofread to eliminate grammatical errors that obscure the data.

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Useful vocabulary: Family Weekly Spending in 1968 and 2018

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Sentence patterns: Family Weekly Spending in 1968 and 2018

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