Task Achievement
Whether you select key features, provide a clear overview, report information accurately, and make relevant comparisons.
IELTS Academic Writing Task 1
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What the checker reviews
Your academic task 1 report is reviewed across the same four assessment areas described in the public IELTS Writing resources.
Coherence and Cohesion
How logically the report is organised and how clearly information moves between paragraphs and sentences.
Lexical Resource
The range and precision of language used to describe trends, stages, locations, and comparisons.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy
Sentence variety, agreement, tense control, punctuation, and errors that make data difficult to follow.
Worked writing example
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An original practice task and response, with teaching commentary on the four criteria. This is an illustrative example, not an official IELTS task or a scored checker result.
The practice task
The table shows the percentage of commuters using four forms of transport in one city in 2010 and 2020. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
| Transport | 2010 | 2020 |
|---|---|---|
| Car | 60% | 45% |
| Bus | 25% | 30% |
| Bicycle | 10% | 20% |
| Walking | 5% | 5% |
Read the example response
The table compares the proportions of commuters who travelled by car, bus, bicycle and on foot in a city in 2010 and 2020.
In 2010, cars accounted for 60% of journeys, while buses were used by 25% of commuters. Cycling represented 10%, and the remaining 5% walked. Ten years later, the figures for cars and buses were 45% and 30% respectively. This means that car use fell by 15 percentage points, whereas the proportion taking the bus rose by five percentage points.
Bicycle use increased from 10% to 20% during the period, making it twice as common in 2020 as in 2010. Walking was the only category to remain unchanged, at 5% in both years. Although cars still carried more commuters than any other individual form of transport in 2020, the combined share for the other three modes had risen from 40% to 55%. The gap between cars and buses also narrowed, from 35 to 15 percentage points.
Review the four criteria
- Task Achievement
- The figures and comparisons are accurate, but the report needs an overview that brings together the main changes. Make the fall in car use, rise in cycling and unchanged walking share clear in one place.
- Coherence and Cohesion
- The detail moves logically from cars and buses to cycling and walking. Put an overview after the introduction so the reader can see the main pattern before the numbers.
- Lexical Resource
- “Percentage points” accurately describes the differences between percentages. “Twice as common” expresses the increase in cycling without repeating the figures.
- Grammatical Range and Accuracy
- The response uses accurate past-tense descriptions and a controlled although-clause. Preserve that accuracy when you add the overview.
Add an overview after the introduction
Overall, car travel became less common but remained the largest individual category. Cycling doubled and bus use increased, while the proportion walking stayed the same.
This groups the main trends into an overview. Keep the supporting figures in the detail paragraphs.
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