BAND 5.5 IELTS ESSAY SAMPLE: ANALYSIS AND COMPARISON OF INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS STUDY TRENDS IN ENGLISH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES (2004-2012)

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The bar chart and table show information about students from abroad studying in four English-speaking countries in 2004 and 2012.Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

Essay Sample

The bar chart gives information about number foreign pupils studying in four different countries in English, and the table illustrate percentage of alien students in total students amount studying in English-spoken countries in 2004 and 2012.
It is clear that the amount of studying in USA had increased dramatically from approximately 175 pupils in 2004 to just 245 students in 2012. Meanwhile, you can see the same upward trend in UK and Australia roughly 130 students in 2004 to just about 200 pupils in 2012. The number of alien people who studied in Canada had increased slightly from 48 pupils in 2004 to 55 students in 2012.
In terms of the percentage of foreign students of total students in four different English spoken countries, the majority of pupils were total students which contained 2% of alien students in USA in both 2004 and 2012, 9% in UK in 2004 nd 13% n 2012, in Australia 19% and 24% respectively in 2004 and 2012, and 5%in 2004 and 7% in 2012 in Canada, which showed the amount of pupils had increased slightly in 3 English-spoken countries with an exception in USA that the percentage remained constantly.
Overall, with looking over the details we can see that more people had immigrated to this four English-spoken countries over the 2 year-period .