The chart below shows the value of one country's exports in various categories during 2015 and 2016.

export earnings (2015-2016)

The bar chart illustrates the export earnings of the USA from five different products. The table below shows the percentage change in values for five different products.

Generally speaking, except for the case of gems and jewelry and agricultural products, all the surveyed categories experienced an upswing trend in their export values from 2015 to 2016. Additionally, the figure for textiles observed the most dramatic change throughout the examined period.

Between 2015 and 2016, petroleum product export earnings increased by 3%, from $60 billion to more than $63 billion, while agricultural product export earnings remained relatively stable. By contrast, the figure for gems and jewelry started at about $40B, but later it witnessed a fall of 5.18% in 2016.

In 2015, the export value of engineered goods was around $57 billion, rising to more than $60 billion in 2016. Such a growth rate, however, was even more pronounced in the case of textiles, with a sharp increase of 15.24%, from more than $25 billion to around $31 billion in just one year of the examined period.

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Always remember that this report is written on the assumption that the reader does not have a copy of the image on hand. Therefore, using image locations in the statement is useless. That is an incorrect writing format that will result in deductions. As the writer, you are expected to deliver the image information without the need to resort to location references.

Even though the word " generally" was used to indicate a trending statement, the use of factual data in the presentation altered the purpose and meaning of the paragraph. A general statement should have been made using estimates, with measurement indicators but not actual data such as indicative years. A differentiation between image trend descriptors should also be used in the explanation. This is another format problem and deduction. Yes, even small errors have small point reductions. One could actually fail the test that way as it all adds up in the end.

Using the 4 paragraph format was the correct overall presentation to use. Your main problem stems from the response format problems rather than overall formatting.

The reporting paragraphs will be scored less due to the incorrect paragraph formatting and GRA issues. A complete academic paragraph requires a 3-5 sentence presentation. A complete sentence uses one idea per line. The overall essay lacks in proper sentence structure usage. The GRA score is going to be low due to the lack of varied sentence types, minimal use of varied punctuation macks, and the constant use of eun-on sentences.