The chart shows the percentage of people who accessed news from 4 sources from 1995 and projection to 2025
Sample Response
The chart illustrates the proportion of people using four sourcesdifferent methods to access news from 1995 to 2020, with a projection for 2025from 1995 and the prediction to 2025.
Overall, while the internet became increasingly populargained more popularity during the given period, the three traditional sources declinedthe opposite was true for the other three news sourcesthe remaining figures. These trends are likely to continue in the future.
The percentage of people who accessed news via televisionwatched news programs on TV was nearly 70% in 1995. The figure then declined overalldecreased gradually to 55% in 2020, despite a rise of about 2 percentage points between the early 2000s and 2010a slight rise of 3% in 2010. It is then projected to fall tothen likely to finish at aboutexactly 50% in 2025. Additionally, starting at about 55% and 50%, respectivelystarting at about 55%, the figures for newspapers and radioradios both declined overallexperienced similar downward trends, falling to roughly 32% and 28%, respectively, in 2020declining to about 30% in 2020. The expectation is that approximately 30% of people will use newspapers, and roughly 23% will listen to the radio to get news.
Despite only becoming available in 1995 and attracting only a small proportion of people in 2000, the internet quickly became prevalent in the next 20 years, with 40% of people using it. Internet use is projectedThe figure is predicted to increase to about 55% in 2025, overtaking televisionovercoming newspapers to become the most common method to access news in 2025.
Why this response received Band 7.0
The response presents a clear overview and organizes the four news sources into readily understandable trends, supported by mostly accurate figures. Its main limitation is precision: the internet's early date is misstated, one newspaper projection is high, and the final claim identifies the wrong source as being overtaken. Prioritize checking every date, value, and comparison against the chart before finalizing the report.
IELTS Writing Criteria Scores
Task Achievement
A clear overview and well-selected figures cover the principal trends, although several dates, values, and comparisons are imprecise.
Verify that the internet's small initial figure belongs to 2005 and state that it overtakes TV, rather than newspapers, by 2025.
Coherence and Cohesion
The response progresses logically from the overview to declining traditional sources and then the rising internet trend.
Make the final comparison explicitly connect the internet's projected lead with TV's projected decline.
Lexical Resource
Vocabulary is sufficiently varied for trend description, with generally appropriate terms such as gradually, downward trends, and prevalent.
Replace awkward or imprecise choices such as radios, finish at, and overcoming with radio, fall to, and overtake.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy
A good range of complex and simple structures is used with only occasional non-impeding errors.
Refine noun forms and prepositions, particularly in phrases such as the prediction to 2025 and the figures for newspapers and radios.
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IELTS Academic Writing Task 1
The chart shows the percentage of people who accessed news from 4 sources from 1995 and projection to 2025
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