📊 IELTS Writing Task 1 — Bar Test

Household technology ownership · Band B2 · Grouped bar, divergent change
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Task

You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The chart below shows the percentage of households owning five types of communication and entertainment technology in 2005, 2014, and 2023. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. Write at least 150 words.

Band B2 Pattern: Grouped bar, divergent change Time: 20 min Min. 150 words

Percentage of households owning selected technology, 2005, 2014, and 2023

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Introduction

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Overview: Hầu hết công nghệ đều tăng qua cả 3 mốc, đặc biệt Smartphone/Smart TV/Tablet đi lên từ gần như 0; riêng Landline telephone là loại duy nhất giảm liên tục. Không dùng số liệu cụ thể, viết tối đa 2 câu.
The bar chart illustrates the percentage of households owning five types of communication and entertainment technology — landline telephones, broadband internet, smartphones, smart TVs, and tablet computers — in 2005, 2014, and 2023. Overall, ownership of nearly all the technologies examined rose across the period, with smartphones, smart TVs, and tablets emerging from virtually nonexistent starting points, whereas the landline telephone was the only category to decline throughout. Landline telephone ownership fell steadily at every stage, from ninety-two percent in 2005 to sixty-eight percent in 2014 and just thirty-eight percent in 2023. Broadband internet followed the opposite trajectory, rising from forty-five percent to seventy-eight percent and then to ninety-six percent, though its rate of growth slowed noticeably in the second period as the technology approached saturation. Among the newer technologies, smartphone ownership increased most sharply overall, climbing from a mere three percent in 2005 to fifty-eight percent in 2014 and ninety-one percent in 2023. Smart TVs, negligible in 2005 and still modest at twenty-two percent in 2014, then surged to seventy-eight percent by 2023, the fastest rate of increase of any category in the final period. Tablet computers showed the opposite pattern of growth: after rising quickly from zero percent to thirty percent in the first period, their growth slowed considerably, reaching just sixty-two percent by 2023.
Công nghệ200520142023
Landline telephone92%68%38%
Broadband internet45%78%96%
Smartphone3%58%91%
Smart TV0%22%78%
Tablet computer0%30%62%
  • Landline telephone — giảm liên tục cả 3 mốc, DUY NHẤT giảm: 92% → 68% → 38%
  • Broadband internet — đã phổ biến sẵn từ 2005 (45%), tăng đều lên 96%, tốc độ tăng chậm dần khi gần bão hòa (33pp rồi 18pp)
  • Smartphone — tăng mạnh nhất tổng thể: 3% → 58% → 91%
  • Smart TV — gần như 0 ở 2005-2014, bứt tốc mạnh giai đoạn sau: 0% → 22% → 78% (tăng nhanh nhất trong giai đoạn cuối)
  • Tablet computer — tăng nhanh giai đoạn đầu rồi chậm hẳn lại: 0% → 30% → 62% (duy nhất có tốc độ tăng giảm dần)
  • Overview bắt buộc: hầu hết công nghệ tăng qua 3 mốc (đặc biệt 3 loại mới nổi từ gần 0); Landline là ngoại lệ duy nhất giảm liên tục
  • Điểm cộng band cao: so sánh được tốc độ tăng/giảm giữa các giai đoạn (Smart TV tăng tốc vs Tablet giảm tốc, Broadband tăng chậm dần) chứ không chỉ nêu số đầu-cuối