This sample answer is based on a real IELTS Writing Task 1 Bar Chart question on March 15th, 2018. I’m a former examiner so you can trust this answer. Keep reading for:
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The chart compares the popularity of six sports among UK citizens from 1995 to 2005. Overall, football was most popular throughout the given period, followed by rugby and tennis, while golf attracted the least people. Even though there were rises in most categories except for tennis and football, which in turn showed a decline and some fluctuations, the changes in number were minimal.
Looking in more details, the most popular sport, football, was interested by approximately 45 per cent of people in UK, however the number decreased after reaching a record high of nearly 50% of the population in 2000. Likewise, the third most popular sport of 1995, tennis, also experienced a drop of interest, from around 35% to a third by 2000 and continued to decrease to below 30%.
In contrast, rugby, which was second in rank through the years, recorded a steady growth of interest by about 1% per year from over a third in 1995. This upward trend also applied to swimming, volleyball and the least popular sport, golf. People displayed an identical growing interest for the former two sport, which increased from about 26% to 30% over the decade, while the figures of golf went up slightly but remained just under 20% throughout the year. (209 words)
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The bar chart illustrates the popularity of six different sports in UK over a ten-year period from 1995 to 2005. Looking from an overall perspective, it is readily apparent that football received the most interest throughout the period, followed by rugby and three other sports, while golf was least popular. In addition, all sports recorded growing attention, except for tennis.
Looking in more details, in 1999 approximately 45% of the interviewees showed interest in football. This number reached a record high of around 48% before a dip to about 46% by 2005. Rugby, the second most popular recreational activity, experienced an upward trend, with approximately 36% of public expressing kinship in this sport.
Swimming and volleyball displayed broadly identical patterns, with their interest levels grew from about 27% to 30% by the end of the period. Tennis, on the other hand, was followed by over one third of the population, which declined considerably to below 30% in 2005. In contrast, golf, the least common leisure option, experienced a gentle yet steady rise by about 1% each year to just under 20% in 2005.
The bar chart illustrates the popularity of six different sports in the UK over a ten-year period from 1995 to 2005. Looking from an overall perspective, it is readily apparent that football received the most interest throughout the period, followed by rugby and three other sports, while golf was least popular. In addition, all sports recorded growing participation, except for tennis.
Looking in more detail, in 1999 approximately 45% of the interviewees showed interest in football. This number reached a record high of around 48% before a dip to about 46% by 2005. Rugby, the second most popular recreational activity, experienced an upward trend, with approximately 36% of the public expressing kinship in this sport.
Swimming and volleyball displayed broadly identical patterns, with their interest levels growing from about 27% to 30% by the end of the period. Tennis, on the other hand, was followed by over one third of the population, which declined considerably to below 30% in 2005. In contrast, golf, the least common leisure option, experienced a gentle yet steady rise by about 1% each year to just under 20% in 2005.
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Overall cellular phone service users made the greatest increase over the period while other services rose slightly except for landline service which fluctuated and dipped a little in 2008.
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A breakdown of the analysis regarding the percentages of people in the UK interested in 6 different sports between 1995 and 2005 is depicted in the bar chart. Looking for an overall analysis, it is readily apparent that all of sports saw an upward trend over the period with the exception of tennis. Football was by far the most popular sport during the period while tennis, swimming, volleyball and rugby had a similar number and golf was the least popular.
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The bar chart illustrates the details about the interest measurement of six different kinds of sports in the UK from 1995 to 2005. Looking from an overall perspective, it is readily apparent that football was the far the largest popular sport, on the other hand, Golf was the least famous sport. Except for Tennis, all other sports of swimming, volleyball, rugby and golf showed upward trend over ten years.
Looking in details, Football recorded 40% interest in 1995, increased to approximately 45% in 2000 before dip into about 42% in 2005. As per the survey, the interest percentage of Tennis, swimming, volleyball, rugby was around 25% to 35% while Rugby was the most popular sport among them. The least famous sport of Gulf recorded about 15% in 1995 and gradually increased to 20% by 2005.
In contrast, Tennis was only sport that showed a declining trend among the other sports for the period under consideration. It had a sharp downward interest which was 33% in 1995 and declined significantly to 27% in 2005.
Impressive, Mihidan!
Great coving the full trend – but the names of sports are not proper nouns so they don’t require capitalization!
Nice, Mihidan – careful with spelling and don’t capitalize the sports!