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IELTS Academic Task 1: Mixed Charts — Health & fitness business
Original practice prompt written in exam style — not a real exam question, and not a prediction.
The charts below show the number of members of a gym and its average monthly membership fee between 2015 and 2023. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. The data is as follows. Membership (bars, number of members): 800 in 2015, 950 in 2017, 1,200 in 2019, 700 in 2021, and 1,350 in 2023. Average monthly fee (line, in US dollars): $40 in 2015, $42 in 2017, $45 in 2019, $38 in 2021, and $48 in 2023. Membership grew until 2019, fell sharply by 2021 and then recovered to its highest level in 2023; the fee followed a similar path, dipping in 2021 — the only year in which it fell — before reaching its peak of $48 in 2023.
Examiner focus: Mirror-image movements with a single dip year: link the 2021 fee cut to the membership slump and joint recovery.
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