Between 1920 and 2019, the line graphs show how household ownership of various electrical appliances and time spent per week doing housework changed. According to , the proportion of households that over time, with both refrigerators and by 2019. The most significant was observed between 1920 and the proportion of households with increased markedly from nearly none to 90%, the proportion of households with and vacuums increased , both reaching 70%. Following that, ownership of refrigerators reached in 1980, and ownership of 1960 washing machines followed in 2000. Following that, ownership of 1960 washing machines . Vacuum cleaner ownership fell to around 65 percent in 1980 before and reaching a high of 75 percent in 2019.
Electrical Appliance Ownership and Housework Time
The charts below show the changes in ownership of electrical appliances and amount of time spent doing housework in households in one country between 1920 and 2019. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
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Overall assessment
Why this response received Band 5.5
The response uses appropriate data-reporting language and generally accurate trend description in its strongest passages, but it omits the second chart on housework hours entirely, which is a major task failure. Some garbled, repeated sentences and an under-length response further weaken coverage and coherence.
IELTS criteria
How each score was decided
Task Achievement
5.0The response reports some appliance trends with largely plausible figures, but it completely omits the housework-hours chart, contains garbled and contradictory statements about washing machine ownership, and falls short of the required length, so achievement is only partial.
Coherence and Cohesion
5.5Progression is broadly followable but mechanical, with repeated 'Following that' openers and a confusing, redundant sentence about 1960 washing machines that disrupts the flow of information.
Lexical Resource
6.0Vocabulary is generally adequate for describing trends and proportions, with reasonable use of items like 'increased markedly' and 'modestly', though some phrasing is imprecise and the range is not extensive.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy
6.0A mix of structures including complex relative and comparative clauses is used with generally acceptable accuracy, but errors such as 'ownership of 1960 washing machines was acquired' and faulty punctuation reduce flexibility and precision.