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Male and Female Workers Across Sectors in Two Countries

The charts below show the percentage of male and female workers in country A and country B.

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

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Key features: Male and Female Workers Across Sectors in Two Countries

WhyThis is aPie chart — it asks you to compare proportions and the biggest shares.

SoWe split the points intoOverview(the largest shares or the main change)andKey features(figures and comparisons worth reporting).

Overview

2 points

Key features

6 points

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Response 01

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Answer · 195 words · 4 paragraphs · 14 comments

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Response 01
Estimated band7.0/ 9

Overall assessment

The response covers all four charts and groups the details clearly by country. Its main weaknesses are the overview's unsupported industry-preference claim, the use of 'majority' despite the 49% female service share in country A, and the misreported 78% female service share in country B, which is labelled 88%. The industry ratios are reasonable approximations, though qualifying them would improve precision. Articles, group labels and references also need attention.

TA

Task Achievement

The response covers both countries and all sectors, but its overview incorrectly suggests that workers in country A favour industry, the smallest sector for both genders. It also reports 78% instead of 88% for female services in country B and describes services as a majority without distinguishing the 49% female share in country A. The industry ratios are reasonable approximations that would be clearer if explicitly qualified.

6.0
CC

Coherence and Cohesion

Ideas are organised logically by country with clear cohesive devices and a generally smooth progression across paragraphs.

7.0
LR

Lexical Resource

The response uses a useful range of sector and proportion vocabulary, but 'laborers' narrows the worker groups unnecessarily, 'the figure recorded in women' is awkward, and terms such as 'prefer' and 'most favored' imply choices that employment data cannot establish.

7.0
GRA

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

A range of complex sentences is attempted with generally clear meaning. Errors include singular 'man and woman' for the worker groups, missing articles before 'services sector', a semicolon before the dependent 'whereas' clause, and the unclear plural reference 'female ones'.

7.0

What to work on next

Check the overview and labelled figures first: distinguish the largest share from a majority, report employment rather than preferences, and correct country B's female service share to 88%. Use 'approximately twice' and 'nearly triple' to make the useful industry comparisons explicitly approximate.

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