The table below gives information on consumer spending on different items in five different countries in 2002. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

Color Key for Feedback:

• 🔴 Red highlights issues related to Lexical Resource – such as word choice, spelling, and vocabulary repetition.

• 🟢 Green indicates feedback on Grammatical Range and Accuracy – including subject-verb agreement, article usage, and sentence structure.

• 🟡 Yellow points out problems with Coherence and Cohesion – such as sentence flow, linking devices, and clarity of ideas.

The table below gives information on consumer spending on different items in five different countries in 2002. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

Overall Band: 4

🟠Task Achievement: Band 4

What you did well:

There is a clear effort to provide data to support the report; however, in most cases, the numbers are difficult to assign to specific categories.

What needs improvement:

• The overview is missing or unclear. A good overview should summarize the main trends without using numbers. You cannot score above Band 5 in Task Achievement without an overview.
  For example: “Overall, Turkey had the highest spending on food and tobacco, while Sweden had the lowest in this category.”

👉 Click here to learn how to write an overview.

• Some data is presented incorrectly.
  For example:
  “In Italy, Spain, Sweden, Turkey have consumer expenditure…”
  This mixes countries and percentages in an incorrect sentence structure.

• Comparisons lack clarity.
  Example: “Italy shows the up score” → This is unclear and unnatural.

🟡 Coherence and Cohesion: Band 4

What needs improvement:

• Transitions are weak or missing between ideas.
  For example:
  “In Ireland the percentage of meal, drink and tambaco is almost 28.91%, clothing footwear is 6.53%...”
  This sentence needs linking phrases like: “In terms of clothing and footwear, the figure is...”

• Repetitive sentence structure makes the report dull and hard to follow.

• Paragraphing is not done correctly.
  Data should be organized into four paragraphs:

  • Introduction

  • Overview

  • Body Paragraph 1

  • Body Paragraph 2

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Tips to improve Coherence:

• Use a range of linking words such as “in contrast,” “however,” “meanwhile,” etc.

• Organize your writing clearly into logical paragraphs.

🔴 Lexical Resource: Band 3.5

What needs improvement:

• Misspelled words:

  • “chat” → should be chart

  • “nathion” → should be nation

  • “tambaco” → should be tobacco

  • “compair” → should be compared

• Incorrect phrase usage:

  • “shows the up score” → unnatural and unclear

  • “as compare to others countries” → should be as compared to other countries

• Repetitive vocabulary:
  Words like “consumer expenditure,” “percentage,” and country names are repeated often. Try using synonyms and pronouns where appropriate.

Tips to improve Lexical Resource:

• Always proofread to catch spelling errors.

• 👉 Learn vocabulary related to IELTS Writing Task 1.

🟢 Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 4

What needs improvement:

• Subject-verb agreement errors:

  • “The graph provide...” → should be “provides”

  • “the Turkey shows...” → remove “the”

• Plural-singular mismatches:

  • “a nations” → should be “a nation”

  • “percentages is” → should be “percentages are”

• Run-on sentences:

  • “In Ireland the percentage of meal, drink and tambaco is almost 28.91%,clothing footwear is 6.53% and leisure education is 2.21%.”
    → This should be rewritten as multiple shorter sentences to improve clarity.

• Punctuation issues:

  • Missing spaces after commas

  • Inconsistent capitalization

  • Use of slashes like “clothing / footwear” is informal and should be avoided

Tips to improve Grammar:

• Focus on writing simple, correct sentences before trying complex structures.

• 👉 Check our guide on grammatical range and accuracy.