Transport and Car Use in Edmonton

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Key features: Transport and Car Use in Edmonton

WhyThis is aMixed charts task — it asks you to connect the main patterns across two visuals.

SoWe split the points intoOverview(the main point of each chart)andKey features(figures and comparisons worth reporting).

Overview

2 points

Key features

7 points

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Response 01

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Answer · 165 words · 4 paragraphs · 20 comments

Score details

Response 01
Estimated band5.0/ 9

Overall assessment

The response attempts to cover both visuals and offers a general overview, which is its strongest aspect. However, it repeatedly misreads the data, attributing reasons for car use to the wrong transport modes, and its language contains frequent grammatical and word-choice errors that often obscure meaning.

TA

Task Achievement

The response identifies the visuals' general topics and gives an overview that car use is highest and taxi lowest, but it systematically confuses the two visuals, claiming taxi is used for shopping and LRT for taking children to school when the table describes reasons for car use, so key details are largely inaccurate.

5.0
CC

Coherence and Cohesion

There is a visible overall structure with an overview and data sections, but progression is mechanical and coherence breaks down as misread data and awkward linkers such as 'Apparently, it is crystal noticeable' make the message hard to follow.

5.0
LR

Lexical Resource

The response attempts some data-related phrasing such as 'more than one third' and 'one-tenth', but word choice is frequently imprecise or unnatural, including 'table chart', 'calibrated in percentile', and 'less preference to taxi as compared to other'.

5.0
GRA

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

Sentence structures show some attempts at complex forms, but frequent errors such as 'the pie chart and table chart illustrates', 'who were using by Bus', and 'they using the Light rail transit' recur across the response and often impede clarity.

5.0

What to work on next

Re-read each visual carefully and report only the data each one actually shows, matching the pie chart's transport mode shares to the chart and the table's percentages to car-use reasons, using accurate sentences.

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Useful vocabulary: Transport and Car Use in Edmonton

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