IELTS Writing Task 1, Practice 1

The bar chart ___________________ the number of men and women studying engineering at Australian universities between the years 1992 and 2012 at 10-year intervals.

• tells

• integrates

• illustrates

• includes

The number of male students _________________ from 14,000 in 19992 to 12,000 in 2002, and then remained level through the following decade.

• rose dramatically

• rose slightly

• fell dramatically

• fell slightly

While the number of male students _____________, the number of women increased between 1992 and 2002.

• rose

• decreased

• went up

• remained the same

The number of female students _______________ by 2,000 each decade.

• grew steadily

• grew dramatically

• decreased steadily

• dropped dramatically

Men continue to make up the _______________ of engineering students in Australia.

• minority

• most

• some

• majority

The proportion of female students _________________ between 1992 and 2012.

• decreased sharply

• increased sharply

• fell sharply

• stayed the same

___________, we can see a clear upwards trend in the number of female engineering students in Australian universities, while the number of male students seems to have levelled off.

• Overall

• Maybe

• Sometimes

• In the past

The number of female students in 1992 was ___________

The TOTAL number of engineering students rose from 16,000 in 1992 to _______________ by 2012.

In 1992 there was one female student to seven male, but by 2012 the gap has narrowed to one female to every __________ male.