🟫 Breakdown of the Answer — 4 Band Criteria (Task 1)

Based on the Band 7.0 sample answer (bar chart about population in three cities):

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🔔 1. Task Achievement — Band 7

✅ What’s good:
🟤 Covers all main features
🟤 Provides a clear overview
🟤 Compares cities appropriately
🟤 Uses specific figures and time references

🔻 To improve:
🟤 Could group data more analytically (e.g. “City A and B both showed similar trends in the first decade…”)

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🔔 2. Coherence & Cohesion — Band 7

✅ What’s good:
🟤 Logical structure: Introduction → Overview → Details → Conclusion
🟤 Uses linking devices: while, although, on the other hand, in conclusion
🟤 Paragraphing is clear

🔻 To improve:
🟤 Could use more varied cohesive devices (e.g. notably, in contrast, likewise)

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🔔 3. Lexical Resource — Band 7

✅ Strong vocabulary:
🟠 illustrates, experienced an increase, steadily, upward trend, dramatic rise, moderate growth, comparatively slower
🟠 No major repetition of simple words like big/small

🔻 To improve:
🟠 Use even more precise expressions (e.g. population surged, plateaued, fluctuated slightly)
🟠 Introduce some topic-specific collocations (e.g. urban expansion, demographic shift)

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🔔 4. Grammatical Range & Accuracy — Band 7

✅ What’s good:
🟠 Range of tenses: past simple, present perfect
🟠 Some complex structures: Although…, while…, indicating that…

🔻 To improve:
🟠 Add more varied grammar:
✨ Conditionals (If the trend continues, …)
✨ Passives (has been recorded)
✨ Relative clauses (which rose steadily…)

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❗️ Final Band Estimate: 7.0–7.5

🔑 This answer is clear, accurate, and structured — but to move up to Band 8, it needs more precision, lexical variety, and advanced grammar.

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