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MODEL COMPOSITIONS
1. In the
Academic modules, the candidate is required to write two essays in one hour.
Task 1 should be a minimum of 150 words and Task 2 should be at least 250
words.
The student is advised to spend no more than 20 minutes on Task 1,
leaving 40 minutes
for Task 2. Both essays are marked in whole points and
more weighting is given to Task 2
2. In the
Academic module, Task 1 requires the candidate to study a diagram or table
and then to reproduce the information in written form in their own words.
Task 2 is a discursive essay in which the candidate must write their opinion
on a subject
or present a balanced argument.
Below there are model
essays based on the tasks given in the tests.
These are examples to show
how the essays could be written, but of course,
many other ways of dealing
with the questions are also possible.
ACADEMIC TEST 1
1. Model answer Writing
Task 1
The graph
shows figures for the number of cases of certain diseases in childhood over
a period of 50 years from 1950 to 2000. It seems that overall these diseases
decreased
substantially until about 1980 but then started to increase again.
However, certain diseases have shown different trends. Firstly, malaria
appears to have
remained fairly constant over the period with between 2 and
3 million cases apart from
1960 when there were only one million instances
of the disease in childhood.
Also, the figures for some diseases have fallen
significantly. Although there were 3 million
recorded cases of childhood
smallpox in 1950, the disease appears to have been
completely eradicated by
1980. In 1950 the number of occurrences of tuberculosis peaked
at 6 million
and subsequently decreased dramatically until they reached an all time low
of 500,000 in 1980. Since then there has been a gradual increase with one
million
cases in 2000. Finally, the figures for AIDS, which were first
recorded in 1980,
have shot upftvm approximately 500,000 and topped 9
million in 2000.
ACADEMIC TEST 2
Writing Task 1
2. Model answer Writing
Task 1
This report describes
the enrolments for a number of different subjects in universities
in the UK,
Australia and France.
As can be seen in the table, medicine is the most popular subject studied in
Australia
with 10% of the total students compared to France and the UK with
6% and 4%
respectively. In contrast to this, Australian students in
literature number only 1% whereas
n the UK it secured 12% of the student
population, the second most favoured branch of
learning after media studies
which had 15%. Engineering is easily the most studied
subject in France with
18% but in Australia and the UK few students selected this as
their
specialisation with only 3% and 1% respectively. Whilst more modern
disciplines
such as media studies and sports studies attracted interest in
the UK and Australia,
gaining 12% and 8% for the latter subject, in France
they appear not to exist at all.
In all three countries languages do not
appear to be very popular with France having
the highest numbers at 6% and
falling to 2% and 1% for Australia and the UK
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