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UK Daily Household and Leisure Time in 2008

The charts below show the comparison of time spent, in minutes per day, by UK’s males and females on household and leisure activities in 2008.

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

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Key features: UK Daily Household and Leisure Time in 2008

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

3 points

Key features

7 points

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Response 01

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Answer · 197 words · 1 paragraph · 8 comments

Score details

Response 01
Estimated band7.5/ 9

Overall assessment

The response covers all key features of both visuals with accurate data and a clear overview of the main gender patterns. Its main limitation is a somewhat mechanical, figure-by-figure organisation that lists comparisons without always highlighting the most significant contrasts.

TA

Task Achievement

The response covers all categories with accurate figures and a clear overview of the contrasting gender patterns. The repair estimates are reasonable readings of the bars. The summary could identify the dominant categories more explicitly, and the media figures should be clearly restricted to their combined category.

8.0
CC

Coherence and Cohesion

Progression is logical and cohesive devices are used appropriately, though the paragraph structure is somewhat mechanical in listing each activity in turn rather than grouping the most significant comparisons.

7.0
LR

Lexical Resource

Vocabulary is flexible and precise for describing data, with good use of terms such as 'dedicated', 'allocated' and 'gender disparities', though some phrases like 'on the same' are slightly awkward.

7.0
GRA

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

A wide range of structures is used accurately, including comparative and contrastive constructions, with only occasional minor awkwardness that does not impede meaning.

7.0

What to work on next

Group the data around the most striking comparisons rather than reporting each category in sequence, to give the account a more analytical shape.

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Useful vocabulary: UK Daily Household and Leisure Time in 2008

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