IELTS Academic Writing Task 1/ Graph Writing – Bar Graph:
» You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.
The bar charts below show the number of hours each teacher spent teaching in different schools in four different countries in 2001.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
You should write at least 150 words.
The number of hours spent by each teacher in teaching.
Model Answer 1:
The column graph compares the number of hours teachers spent teaching in three types of schools: primary, lower secondary, and upper secondary, across four countries in 2001.
Overall, teachers in the USA taught the highest duration of time at every school level, while Japan consistently recorded the lowest figures. Another clear trend is that teaching time generally increased as the school level rose.
At the primary level, teachers in the USA taught the highest duration of time in the classroom, at about 750 hours per year. Spanish primary teachers followed the trend with roughly 650 hours per annum, while Iceland’s total was lower, at below 600 hours. Japanese primary school teachers taught only about 400 hours annually, the least duration among the four countries.
A similar ranking appears in lower secondary education. Teachers in the USA again led with approximately 1000 teaching hours, compared with around 750 hours in Spain. Iceland and Japan remained significantly lower in this case, at roughly 600 classroom hours per year.
The pattern becomes even more noticeable in upper secondary schools, where teaching hours peaked in all four countries. However, the USA teachers recorded the highest teaching hours, at around 1200 hours, while Spain reached 900 teaching hours. Iceland, in this case, increased more moderately to about 900 hours, but Japanese upper secondary level teachers still taught the least duration, at exactly 700 hours.
Sample Answer 2:
The column graph presents data on average teaching hours of an educator in 2001 in Japan, Spain, Iceland and the USA in three different school types: primary, lower secondary, and higher secondary.
Generally speaking, a US tutor, on average, spent more hours teaching in a school than those of Japanese, Spanish and Icelandic teachers in 2001, and the time spent on teaching increases with the class levels in all countries.
According to the illustration, an instructor in Japan, Spain and Iceland typically spent around 600 hours teaching elementary-level students in 2001. This duration in the USA was the highest, roughly 750 hours. A US mentor taught lower secondary students for exactly 1000 hours this year, and it was roughly 400 hours higher than in Iceland and Japan. Lower secondary teachers in Spain used roughly 750 hours each with their students. Finally, the time spent teaching higher secondary pupils in the USA was approximately 1200 hours, which was 300 hours fewer in Iceland and Spain, and 500 hours fewer in Japan.
Sample Answer 3:
The bar graph outlines the average durations a teacher spent on three different levels of schools (primary, lower secondary, and upper secondary) in four different countries: namely, Japan, Spain, Iceland and the USA, in 2001.
Overall, teaching hours at the secondary level were higher than at the primary level, and the US tutors spent more time teaching than the teachers in the other three countries.
A US teacher spent well over 700 hours teaching primary students in 2001, while a Japanese educator used exactly 600 hours teaching the same graders. Time allocated to teaching elementary students by a Spanish teacher was somewhat 650 hours, and fewer than 600 hours in Iceland. Moreover, an American teacher’s average schooling duration in 2001 for lower secondary students was 1000 hours, which was 300 to 400 hours higher than the teaching duration by a teacher in the other three countries. Finally, higher secondary students received almost 1200 hours of lectures by a teacher in the US, and this duration was noticeably higher than that of other countries. In Japan, an upper secondary-level teacher taught for 700 hours in 2001, almost 500 hours fewer than that of a US teacher. In Iceland and Spain, teaching durations by a higher secondary school teacher were approximately 900 hours each.
The bar chart illustrates how long a teacher spent in the classroom in primary and secondary education levels in four countries in 2001.
Overall, teachers in the USA spent the highest amount of time annually in schools while Japanese teachers taught students for the least amount of time on an average. Moreover, teachers allocated more time teaching higher secondary pupils than that of primary and lower secondary students.
It is clearly seen that teachers in the USA spent the highest hours teaching upper secondary students in a year, which took up nearly 1200 hours. They allocated nearly 1000 and 750 hours to teach lower secondary and primary school pupils in this same year. Whereas in Japan, teachers, on average, spent roughly 600 to 700 hours yearly to teach schoolgoers and the durations were lower than that of the other three countries. In Spain and Iceland, schoolmasters contributed almost the same hours in upper secondary classes (900 hours). Teachers in these two countries spent approximately 600 to 750 hours in a year to teach elementary and lower secondary students.
I think it should be Icelandic teachers, not Icelander.