Friday, July 19, 2013

Enrollment of International and Local Students Graphs. IELTS, Academic, Writing, Task-1

IELTS Academic Module Writing Test-5
Enrollment of Students in Australian Universities

The graphs below show the enrollments of overseas students and local students in Australian universities over a ten year period.
Summarize the information by selecting and reporting main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
Write at least 150 Words.
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The graphs below show the enrollments of overseas students and local students in Australian universities over a ten year period from the year 2000 to 2010.

The graph on left hand side gives information about overseas students and the graph on right hand side is about local students.

In both of the graphs, X axis indicates years and Y axis indicates number of students enrolled.

In the overseas graph, between the years 2000 to 2010 total number of overseas students on the roll is 80000. Half of them could be new enrollments say about 40000 students.

Similarly in case of local students’ total number of students on roll between the years 2000 to 2010 is 600,000 out of which 200,000 are new enrollments. The rates of increase in enrollments of international students show a dramatic rise. It almost doubles every five years.

In summary, unlike local Australian students, quite significant rising trend in enrollment is of overseas students is seen in the graphs. This rising trend is indicative of appreciable growth of Australian universities.

(174 Words)