IELTS Academic Writing Task 1 with answer.
You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.
The chart below shows the percentage of male and female teachers in six different types of educational setting in the UK in 2010.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
You should write at least 150 words.
Sample Answer:
The provided bar graph gives data on the percentage of male and female teachers in six different educational stages in the United Kingdom in the year 2010. Overall, more women teachers could be observed school level while in higher education level more male teachers were engaged.
According to the bar graph, in nursery and pre-school level male teachers were only about 2-3% compared to the over 95% female teachers. The ratio of male and female students in primary level was 4 by over 95 respectively per hundred. In secondary level education percentage of female teachers was slightly higher (about 52%) compared to the about 48% male teachers. In College level the percentage of teachers from both genders were equal. Finally in private training institutes male teachers exceeded the percentage of female teachers. In these type of institutions there were more than 53 male teachers compared to the about 47 female teachers per hundred. In case of university level education, male teachers’ ratio (over 70%) was significantly higher than the female teachers’ ratio which was about 30%.