Band 7
A real candidate answer at Band 7, with every examiner correction marked on it. 14 corrections.
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The task
The chart this describes is noted below.
You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.
The chart shows the sources of carbon dioxide emissions between 1970 and 2000.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The original chart for this task is not currently shown. The answer below describes the data in full, so the report still reads correctly without it.
The answer
Reproduced exactly as written, errors included.
The line graph illustrates the quantity of carbon dioxide released from different sources in 1970 to 2000.
As can be seen from the the tonnes released ranked from just over 10 million up to 65 million. From the 5 sources 4 of them had fairly stable carbon dioxide emission till 1980 with industrial combustion which had steady decline over these years.
From 1980 to 1990 there were changes in all presented sources. Transport and industrial combustion almost the same quantity at the end of 1990. Power stations for the quantity, releasing almost five times more than other sectors which again over this period of time .
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Examiner comments
The overall verdict, criterion by criterion.
This is a clear and concise description of the graph. There is a good range of grammar and some appropriate vocabulary, although some language is a little too informal (e.g. 'biggest').
There are some issues with punctuation ('In the meantime in 1990 to 2000 the trend was…') as well as some repeated errors with articles (had the steady decline)
The closing sentence highlights the main trend well, and the introduction is clear. Most of the important sections of the graph have been highlighted, although the writer could have added that industrial combustion fell the most over the given period.
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