ichanpants89 [Contributor]
Apr 11, 2016
Writing Feedback / IELTS TASK 1 - The pie charts below show the online shopping sales for retail sectors [4]
Aini, I would like to remind you that this is the wrong 'forum category' for posting IELTS task 1. You should post it in 'Writing Feedback' category. However, I am going to give you some feedback and corrections anyway. At first, I notice that most IELTS learners forget to write at least three sentences for each paragraph in task 1 before that paragraph can be considered a strong and solid paragraph by the examiner. Then, most IELTS students are making the common mistakes in composing complex sentence. It seems like they force to put it carelessly, without realizing that the sentence is inappropriate. For example:
- Moreover, the other retail sectors had nearly same percentage where the second largest was 24% for selling clothes, then 21% for entertainment sector in this terms are music and film and the smallest online earning was 19% for selling books.
Yes, I agree that this is complex sentence, but it is also a 'confusing' complex sentence. This is because you mix present and past tense there. Moreover, coordinate conjunction also placed carelessly, which makes it redundant.
My suggestion is that, 'accurate/perfect' simple sentence is still better than (confusing) complex sentence.
Remember the scoring criteria for band 5:
- attempts complex sentences but these tend to be less accurate than simple sentences
That's it, I hope you find my feedback is useful for your future development.
Keep writing aini, good luck! :)
Aini, I would like to remind you that this is the wrong 'forum category' for posting IELTS task 1. You should post it in 'Writing Feedback' category. However, I am going to give you some feedback and corrections anyway. At first, I notice that most IELTS learners forget to write at least three sentences for each paragraph in task 1 before that paragraph can be considered a strong and solid paragraph by the examiner. Then, most IELTS students are making the common mistakes in composing complex sentence. It seems like they force to put it carelessly, without realizing that the sentence is inappropriate. For example:
- Moreover, the other retail sectors had nearly same percentage where the second largest was 24% for selling clothes, then 21% for entertainment sector in this terms are music and film and the smallest online earning was 19% for selling books.
Yes, I agree that this is complex sentence, but it is also a 'confusing' complex sentence. This is because you mix present and past tense there. Moreover, coordinate conjunction also placed carelessly, which makes it redundant.
My suggestion is that, 'accurate/perfect' simple sentence is still better than (confusing) complex sentence.
Remember the scoring criteria for band 5:
- attempts complex sentences but these tend to be less accurate than simple sentences
That's it, I hope you find my feedback is useful for your future development.
Keep writing aini, good luck! :)