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IELTS Academic Task 1: Mixed Charts — Education & growth
Original practice prompt written in exam style — not a real exam question, and not a prediction.
The charts below show the number of students in each faculty of a university and the university's total enrolment over a ten-year period. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. The data is as follows. Students by faculty in 2023 (bars): Business 3,400; Engineering 2,900; Health Sciences 2,600; Arts and Humanities 2,100; Natural Sciences 1,800 — a total of 12,800 students. Total enrolment (line): 9,600 in 2013, 10,400 in 2016, 11,500 in 2019, and 12,800 in 2023. Enrolment rose in every period shown, by roughly a third overall. Business is the largest faculty, with almost twice as many students as the smallest, Natural Sciences, and Business and Engineering together account for just under half of all students (6,300 of 12,800).
Examiner focus: A snapshot (2023 faculties) plus a trend (ten-year growth): do not mix the two time frames in the same sentences.
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