The chart shows the division of household tasks by gender in Great Britain.
Sample Response
The provided graph gives information on the time spent by males and femalesby male and female on household tasksworks in Great Britain. As is observed from the graph, females spend more timefemale spent more time cooking, cleaning, clothes care and child rearingcleaning, clothing and child rearing while males spend more timewhile male spent more time on gardening and odd jobs. According to the graph, femalesfemale spend more than 200 minutes per day on household tasks, whileper day on household works while malesmale spend about 140 minutes per day on those household taskson those short of household jobs in Great Britain. On averageOn an average, women spend more time on household tasksfemale works more on household tasks like cooking, baking, cleaning, washing, house tidying, childcarechild caring and sewing. For those short of jobs, women work almost 3 times than the men do. On the contrary, male work more on gardening, pet care, odd job maintaining more than women do and they spend the highest amount of time on gardening and pet caring while the female work their highest amount of time on cooking, cleaning and washing. In conclusion, women spend significantly more time than menfemale work significantly more than men on household tasks such as cookingon household works like cooking, washing, cleaning and child nurturing while men spend most of their timemen spend their majority of time on household tasks such as gardeningon household works like gardening, pet carecaring and odd jobs compared to the time they spend on household tasks.
Why this response received Band 5.5
The response identifies the central gender contrast and accurately conveys the approximate daily totals, so its broad interpretation is clear. However, the report gives almost no category-level figures, overgeneralises that women spend nearly three times as long, and presents everything in one repetitive paragraph. Add precise comparisons from several categories, organise them into focused paragraphs, and correct recurring agreement and comparison structures.
IELTS Writing Criteria Scores
Task Achievement
The main division of tasks and overall daily totals are covered, but category-level evidence is limited and the claim that women spend almost three times as long is too broad.
Support the overview with accurate paired figures, such as 74 versus 30 minutes for cooking and 49.5 versus 21 minutes for gardening.
Coherence and Cohesion
The sequence is broadly understandable, but the single-paragraph presentation, repeated ideas, and overloaded sentences make progression mechanical.
Separate the overview from two detail paragraphs grouped by female-dominated and male-dominated tasks, removing the repetitive conclusion.
Lexical Resource
The vocabulary communicates the topic, but repeated inappropriate phrases such as 'household works', 'those short of jobs', and 'odd job maintaining' limit accuracy.
Use precise combinations such as 'household tasks', 'categories', 'maintenance and odd jobs', and 'spent more time on'.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy
Meaning is generally recoverable, but subject-verb disagreement, faulty comparative forms, singular gender nouns, and long loosely controlled sentences recur throughout.
Use plural subjects consistently and form comparisons as 'women spent three times as long as men' in shorter, complete sentences.
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IELTS Academic Writing Task 1
The chart shows the division of household tasks by gender in Great Britain.
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