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US Adult Employment Status in 2003 and 2013

The chart shows the employment status of adults in the US in 2003 and 2013.

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

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Key features: US Adult Employment Status in 2003 and 2013

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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Response 01
Estimated band6.0/ 9

Overall assessment

The response covers all categories and both years with a stated overview and many broadly accurate figures, which is its strongest aspect. However, frequently inaccurate or garbled phrasing (e.g., 'adolescent's employment status', 'on account of a tenth', 'unemployed was declined') and a muddled overview blur the message at several points.

TA

Task Achievement

The response attempts an overview and covers all seven categories with broadly plausible estimates. However, it calls adults adolescents, counts only six categories, and describes the final education and hotel figures as remaining equal to the earlier medical figure. The business decline also needs clear percentage-point wording rather than an unexplained percentage change.

6.0
CC

Coherence and Cohesion

There is a visible overall structure with body paragraphs by year, but progression is mechanical and at times unclear, with disjointed statements such as 'With 5% unemployed was declined' that impede the flow of information.

6.0
LR

Lexical Resource

The writer attempts some range ('jumped up', 'proportion', 'categories'), yet imprecise or non-standard word choices like 'adolescent's employment status', 'on account of a tenth', and 'places taken by' recur and limit flexibility.

6.0
GRA

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

A mix of simple and attempted complex structures is present, but frequent errors in verb form, agreement, and article use ('adults population go down', 'was declined', 'the united states of America's adolescent's') regularly reduce accuracy.

6.0

What to work on next

Rewrite the overview to state the main trends precisely, and proofread numerical and comparative statements so that each proportion is expressed in standard, error-free English.

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