TASK 1:
ESSAY INFORMATION:
Written by: IELTS I-Ready, 28/10/2024
Marked by: Ex-BC Examiner
(IELTS Academic – 26/10/2024)
Question: The table shows information about students studying at an Australian university in 2009.
ANSWER:
The table illustrates the proportion of students in a particular Australian college who studied various courses in 2009, divided into categories of female, non-native English speakers, and those not originally from Australia. Overall, physics and information technology recorded the highest percentage of learners born in other countries. Additionally, the largest share of females was witnessed in humanities, while non-native English speakers in information technology accounted for the highest rate.
Regarding the composition of gender, 72% of humanities students were females, followed by education at 68%. Physics documented 56% female students, which was minimally higher than science at 52%. Furthermore, the figures for information technology and engineering were fairly comparable at around 16%.
Concerning students whose mother tongue is not English, nearly half of learners taking information technology or science belonged to this cohort. In contrast, the departments that exhibited the lowest shares of non-native English speakers were education and humanities at 16% and 12%, respectively.
In terms of students born outside of Australia, information technology and physics each documented 56%. Engineering recorded a lower proportion of 48%, whereas science saw 31% of students born elsewhere. Finally, the lowest rate was witnessed in humanities at precisely one-fifth.
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