The table below shows the average band scores for students from different language groups taking the IELTS General Test in 2010. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The table illustrates the breakdown of scores for the IELTS General Test in 2010. It shows separate scores for all four sections (Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking), together with the overall score for students from four different language groups around the world.
From an overall perspective, German speakers achieved the highest grades with an average score of 6.7 across all four sections. Moreover, they scored the highest of all four language groups in three sections of the four sections (Listening, Writing, Speaking).
French speakers scored the second highest scores ...
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Attribute Value Ideal
Score: 8.0 out of 9
Category: Excellent Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 9 10
No. of Words: 200 200
No. of Characters: 1061 1000
No. of Different Words: 93 100
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.761 4.0
Average Word Length: 5.305 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.452 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 94 60
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 72 50
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 45 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 15 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.222 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.482 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.444 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.476 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.722 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.188 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 4