#IELTS_Academic_Writing_Task_1: Band 9 Solution Cambridge IELT | Cambridge IELTS practice |Official™

#IELTS_Academic_Writing_Task_1:
Band 9 Solution
Cambridge IELTS 14 Test 2

The bar chart and table give information about a country's export earnings from five groups of products in 2015 and 2016.

It is noticeable that export revenues in all but one of the five product categories increased over the period shown. While petroleum products were the highest earning exports in both years, the textile industry saw the most significant growth in earnings.

Export earnings from petroleum products rose from around $61 billion in 2015 to $63 billion in 2016, which was an increase of 3%. Income from engineered goods reached a similar level. The country’s export earnings from these goods went up by 8.5% to approximately $62 billion in 2016.

From 2015 to 2016, there was a 15.24% increase in export revenue from textiles, with earnings rising from roughly $25 billion to over $30 billion. By contrast, there was almost no change in the amount of money earned from agricultural products, which remained at just over $30 billion. Finally, the only decline in income occurred in the gems and jewellery product group, where export earnings fell by around 5% to approximately $40 billion in 2016.

Here are some good collocations and phrases from the sample answer that I shared last week.

Remember: a collocation is a group of words that are often used (and work well) together e.g. increased significantly, export earnings, textile industry.

a country's export earnings
export revenues
income from
earnings from
the highest earning exports
it is noticeable that
five product categories
over the period shown
the textile industry
saw the most significant
growth in
rose from... to...
which was an increase of
reached a similar level
went up by... to approximately...
there was a ...% increase in
rising from roughly... to...
there was almost no change in
the amount of money earned
which remained at just over
decline in income
fell by ...% to...

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