Cambridge IELTS 10 Academic Writing Test 3

• Task 1: describe the chart/graph/table in your own words.
• Task 2: write an argumentative essay responding to the prompt.
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Cambridge IELTS 10 Academic Writing Test 3 opens with a Task 1 pair of charts and closes with a Task 2 positive-or-negative development essay, so it stress-tests both data description and discursive argument in a single hour. Task 1 asks you to summarise the data presented in the visual. Task 2 then turns to a discursive prompt: Countries are becoming more and more similar because people can buy the same products anywhere in the world.

With paired charts, decide which pair you will compare paragraph by paragraph — same category across the two charts, or each chart in turn — and signal that choice in the overview. Cite units (percentage, megajoule, tonne) consistently and never assume the second chart uses the same scale as the first. State your overall judgement (positive, negative, or mixed) in the introduction and stick to it.

Spend twenty minutes flat on Task 1 — five planning, twelve writing, three reviewing — and forty on Task 2, with at least five of those at the end for proofreading. Task 2 is worth twice the marks, so do not let an over-long pair of charts description steal time from your essay. For band 7, the essay's argumentation matters more than the report's elegance, but a clean overview sentence in Task 1 is non-negotiable.

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