The line graph shows Paris Metro station passengers.
Sample Response
The given line chartcharts illustrate the number of passengerspassenger’s number at the Paris Metro stationin the Paris metro station from 6:00 to 22:00between 6 o’clock to 22:00.
Overall, the citizen number is the peak on morning hours and in night hours additionally, late-night and evening time it is on the least.
At 6 in the morning time 100 passengers which number rises rapidly and after 2 and half hour it is 400 people. The number of people is dropping and 200 passengers on the station at 10 o’clock. Furthermore, from 12:00 to 14:00, the figure remains at approximately 300between 12 to 14 has the same number of passengers on account of 300 before decliningwhich decline to 16:00till 17 o’clock when it reaches its lowest pointwhere it touches it dip, and the figure is about 80 passengersit is 90 people.
Two2 hours later, the passenger figurethe traveller number is almost the same as it was at 8:00is the same as 8 o’clock time has, and it decreases to 300 passengers over the next hourdecreases 100 passengers in one hour and continues to fall to 100 at 20:00continues to plunge till 20:30 o’clock, the figure is the same as at 6:00the number is same as early morning 6 o’clock has and slightly lower than at 22:00same as 22 o’clock, at 21:00, it rises to about 180 passengersbetween couple hours it has 180 people.
Why this response received Band 5.5
The response identifies the graph’s principal peaks, trough, and midday pattern, and it follows the day broadly chronologically. Its main limitation is that several times and values are described inaccurately or unclearly, while pervasive grammatical errors make some comparisons difficult to follow. The highest priority is to verify each turning point against the graph and express it in short, controlled sentences with explicit times and figures.
IELTS Writing Criteria Scores
Task Achievement
The response provides an overview and covers both major peaks, the afternoon trough, and the midday plateau, but several timings and comparisons are inaccurate or unclear.
Anchor every key feature to the exact hour and value shown, especially the 18:00 peak and the later fluctuations.
Coherence and Cohesion
The paragraph sequence and broadly chronological description provide basic progression, despite strained links and overloaded sentences.
Describe each rise or fall in a separate sentence and use time expressions to show the sequence explicitly.
Lexical Resource
There is some useful trend vocabulary, but frequent inaccurate choices such as citizen number and on account of 300 impair precision.
Use conventional graph language such as passenger numbers, peaked at, fell to, and remained stable at.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy
Complex structures are attempted, but frequent errors in clauses, agreement, articles, and prepositions regularly make meaning difficult to process.
Build accurate simple sentences with one subject, one finite verb, and one time-value comparison before combining ideas.
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IELTS Academic Writing Task 1
The line graph shows Paris Metro station passengers.
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