Study Hours of Students at Five Universities

The bar charts below show the average number of hours students in five different universities studied.

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

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Key features: Study Hours of Students at Five Universities

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

4 points

Key features

7 points

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Estimated band7.0/ 9

Overall assessment

The response gives a clear overview of the changing leaders and wider weekend variation, with relevant comparisons across all five universities. The one-hour B–C difference is a defensible rounded description of 0.8 hours, but should be marked as approximate alongside the more precise B–E comparison. Minor notation and labelling issues remain, and the shared pattern of lower weekend study hours could be stated explicitly.

TA

Task Achievement

The response presents a clear overview of the leaders and wider weekend variation, and covers all five universities with relevant comparisons. The one-hour B–C gap reasonably rounds 0.8 hours, though signalling approximation would improve clarity; the overall pattern of lower weekend hours is left implicit.

7.0
CC

Coherence and Cohesion

Ideas progress logically through an overview followed by weekday and weekend paragraphs, with cohesive devices such as 'Overall', 'Regarding' and 'Meanwhile' used naturally.

7.0
LR

Lexical Resource

Vocabulary is flexible and precise for a data summary, with phrases like 'disparities become more pronounced', 'closely follow' and 'allocating the most time to academic pursuits', and only a minor inconsistency in capitalisation of university names.

7.0
GRA

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

A wide range of structures is used accurately, including complex comparative sentences and participle constructions, with only trivial slips such as the comma in '2,4 hours'.

7.0

What to work on next

State that all five universities record lower weekend hours. Make precision consistent in calculated comparisons: use “about 1 hour” or “0.8 hours” for B versus C, and write the B–E difference as “2.4 hours”.

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