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BEST IELTS Academic Writing Task 1, 9th March
IELTS ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
IELTS ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
The chart below shows the changes that took place in three different areas of crime in New Port city center from 2003-2012. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
SAMPLE ANSWER
The line graph compares the number of incidents in terms of three different areas of crime, namely burglary, car thief and robbery in Newport city between 2003 and 2012.
Overall, burglary experienced a downward trend during the period of 9 years. However, the number of incidents of both car thief and robbery remained relatively stable during that period.
From 2003 to 2008, the number of incidents of burglary was highest at the beginning, at 3400 incidents. After reaching a peak of 3800 incidents in 2004, it saw a sudden decline, hitting the bottom at 1200 accidents in 2008. At that time, there was a dramatic decrease in the number of accidents in car theft; however, which/ this figure was higher than that of burglary, at 2100 incidents. The number of robbery after rose rising to a peak at 900 incidents, it fell gradually and accounted for 500 incidents, which was the least point of the line graphs.
Between 2008 and 2012, although there was a steep increase, the number of car theft and robbery cases was similar to their beginning point, at 2800 and 700 incidents, respectively. By contrast, there was a significant plunge in the number of incidents of burglary by 2000 incidents in 2012.
