The flowchart below shows the process involved in completing the work experience requirement for university students.
Sample Response
The given flowchart presents the steps university students must follow to fulfil their work-experience requirementthe steps required to complete the requirements for work experience of the university students. As is presented in the flowchart, there are six steps involved in fulfilling the requirements starting from the Application submission till submitting the final report and after a student successfully complete these steps, s/he would be awarded the necessary credits. The first stepAs is presented in the flowchart, the first step of the process is called ‘Application’ that requires a student to choose potential workplaces from an approved lista suitable and potential workspace and to arrange interviewsarrange the interview to submit applications to places of interestsubmit the application in the fields s/he is interested in. The next step involves the approval stage when the student receives an acceptance letterwhere a student needs to be accepted and then s/he needs to submit the acceptance letter to a professor for approval. After that, the student is required to arrangemake a schedule to work for a minimum of 10 hours per weekmore than 10 hours per week for more than 20 weeks. In the fourth stage, the studentcandidate has to complete the weekly Report Formfulfil the weekly work report and submit it to the professorsubmit to the corresponding professor each Friday. At the evaluation stageIn the Evaluation step, the candidate participateswill participate in the evaluation meeting during the final workweekin the final week of his/ her work with the work supervisor and the supervisor submitswould submit the evaluation form. In the final step, known as ‘Final Report’, the candidate has to submit the final report before the last week of the spring termbefore the last week of spring semester. Upon submission of the final reportAnd with the submission of final report, the work experience requirements are fulfilled according to the process described in the flowchart.
Why this response received Band 6.5
The response's strongest feature is its complete, logically ordered account of all six stages, supported by a clear overview of the process and its outcome. Its main limitation is imprecise language, including a factual change from a minimum of 10 hours over 20 weeks to more than both figures, alongside recurring grammatical and collocational errors. The priority is to preserve the diagram's exact conditions while using more natural, accurately controlled sentences.
IELTS Writing Criteria Scores
Task Achievement
The response identifies all six stages, provides a clear overview, and accurately reports most key requirements, but it misstates the schedule as more than 10 hours per week for more than 20 weeks.
Reproduce quantitative conditions precisely, distinguishing a minimum of 10 hours per week over 20 weeks from amounts above those thresholds.
Coherence and Cohesion
The stages progress logically and are clearly signposted, although repetitive framing and the absence of paragraph breaks make the organisation less polished.
Group the overview and process details into purposeful paragraphs and vary stage transitions instead of repeating similar introductory phrases.
Lexical Resource
Vocabulary is sufficiently varied for describing a process, but awkward choices such as 'potential workspace,' 'fulfil the weekly work report,' and 'corresponding professor' reduce precision.
Use natural process collocations such as 'approved workplaces,' 'complete a weekly report form,' and 'submit it to the professor.'
Grammatical Range and Accuracy
A mix of simple and complex structures conveys the process clearly, but recurring agreement, article, preposition, and sentence-control errors limit accuracy.
Proofread complex sentences for subject-verb agreement and complete clause structure, especially forms such as 'a student successfully completes' and 'submit it to a professor.'
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IELTS Academic Writing Task 1
The flowchart below shows the process involved in completing the work experience requirement for university students.
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