The chart below shows Morocco’s income from different economic sectors in 2003 as well as its income from fishing from 1982 to 2003.
Sample Response
The pie chart compares revenue earned from six Moroccan economic sectorssix economic sectors by Morocco in 2003 and the bar chart givescolumn graph gives data on annual income from the fishing industryfrom fishing industry between 1982 and 2003. Overall, tourism, manufacturing and workers’ remittances weremanufacturing and foreign remittance were three largestmain sources of income for Morocco in 2003 and the highest revenue from fishing came in the year 2000. In detailGetting back to the details, the highest revenue-earning sectorrevenue earning sector for Morocco was tourism, which broughttourism that brought 26% of total revenuejust over a quarter of total revenue in 2003. Manufacturing and foreign remittance were the second- and third-largest sources of incomecomprised the second and third most important economic sectors for this country and together accounted for 45% of the revenuebrought 45% of the revenue. The lowest revenue came from agriculture, which accounted for only 2%agriculture which was only 2%. Fishing earned 13% of the total revenue which was just 1% less than the revenue earned from the petroleum sector. Based on the column graph, Morocco earned less than half a billion US dollarsdollar from fishing in 1982 and in 1993next year, this revenue surged to nearly 2 billion. The revenue continued to increase and in 1997 and almost touched 3 billion. The highest fishing incomefish related income in Morocco came in the year 2000 and the revenue in this year from fishing was well over 4 billion USD. Afterwards, revenue dropped and over the next two yearsin next two years remained stable at approximately 3.8 billion. In 2003, income from fishing significantly dropped and reached below 2 billion dollar.
Why this response received Band 7.0
The response selects the most important features from both visuals, supports them with relevant figures, and uses a suitably varied reporting vocabulary. The principal limitation is occasional factual and grammatical imprecision, especially calling 1993 the next year after 1982 and using a few incomplete or awkward constructions. Prioritize exact time references and a final grammatical check while retaining the strong comparative coverage.
IELTS Writing Criteria Scores
Task Achievement
The main sector shares and fishing-income trend are accurately selected and well supported, with only a minor time-reference error.
State that the fishing figure rose from 1982 to 1993 rather than saying it increased in the next year.
Coherence and Cohesion
Information progresses logically from the sector breakdown to the time series, although the single-block presentation is somewhat dense.
Separate the overview and the two visual datasets into distinct paragraphs for easier navigation.
Lexical Resource
A good range of reporting vocabulary conveys proportions and changes precisely, with a few awkward combinations.
Refine collocations such as 'fishing-industry income' and 'fishing-related revenue' while avoiding unnecessary repetition of 'revenue.'
Grammatical Range and Accuracy
Varied complex structures are generally controlled, but several article, preposition, and sentence-completion errors remain.
Proofread constructions such as 'in the next two years' and remove the stray 'and' before 'almost touched.'
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IELTS Academic Writing Task 1
The chart below shows Morocco’s income from different economic sectors in 2003 as well as its income from fishing from 1982 to 2003.
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