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IELTS Academic Task 1: Table — Technology & society
Original practice prompt written in exam style — not a real exam question, and not a prediction.
The table below shows the percentage of people in four age groups who owned a smartphone in 2015 and 2023. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. The data is as follows (percentage of each age group owning a smartphone). Aged 16–24: 88% in 2015, rising to 99% in 2023. Aged 25–44: 79% in 2015 and 97% in 2023. Aged 45–64: 58% in 2015 and 90% in 2023. Aged 65 and over: 21% in 2015 and 61% in 2023. Ownership rose in every age group, but the increase was by far the largest among the oldest group, whose figure almost tripled, narrowing the gap with the youngest group from 67 percentage points to 38.
Examiner focus: Universal growth with convergence: the youngest were already saturated, so the real movement is at the older end.
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