IELTS WRITING TASK 1

The table compares the proportion of students with seven educational issues in school A and school B in the years 2005 and 2015.

Overall, school A had higher proportions of children struggling with the problems in both years. However, this school managed to reduce the incidence of almost all problems between 2005 and 2015, while school B saw an overall rise in the percentage of struggling children.

In school A, following instructions and concentration were the most important issues, accounting for 42% and 40% of students respectively in 2005, but each fell significantly to just 18% in 2015. The figures for children having problems with reading and handwriting remained almost unchanged, while the percentages of students struggling with other problems declined to below 30% in 2015.

By contrast, in school B, the proportions of children finding it hard to follow instructions and spell doubled in 2015, reaching 10% and 12% respectively. Students who struggled with concentration was the highest, at 15% in both 2005 and 2015, over twice as high as the figures for handwriting and following instructions in 2005. The figures for the other issues rose slightly in 2015.