IELTS Writing Task 1 - housing owned and rented in the UK

Question: The pie charts below show the percentage of housing owned and rented in the UK in 1991 and 2007.
Summarize the information by describing the main features of the charts and making comparisons where appropriate.

Answer:
The two pie charts indicate the changes in the percentage of housing market in the UK in 1991 and 2007. The overall number increased from 22 million homes in 1991 to 27 million homes in 2007, which is 5 million homes in 15 years, averaging more than 300,000 homes increase each year.

The most drastic change lies in the percentage of home owner, increasing from 60% to 70% in 2007, whereas the social renting dropped 6% and social housing also dropped from 6% to 2%. The percentage of private renting stayed the same - 11%.

The pie charts show the trend that house owning had become more preferred.

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This is an automatic failing score Task 1 essay because it does not meet the minimum word count requirement of at least 150 - 175 words. Writing less than the expected word count does not allow the system to review your writing based on a preset criteria and will therefore, be ineligible for a passing score.

One of the problems with your writing is the way that you use nouns in the first paragraph. There is a sense of awkwardness to be detected in your writing since there are different ownership types indicated in the original image. Therefore, you should make it clear that you referring to "percentage shares" or "ownership types" when explaining the figures that were provided.

Try to learn how to write in simple, complex, and compound sentences. That way you can avoid deductions based upon run-on sentence writing as you do in the later parts of this essay. Additionally, since this is a task 1 essay,the trending statement should be placed with the summary information so that it can help add to your preliminary / TA score.