WRITING TASK 1

You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.

The chart gives information on the percentage of women going into higher education in five
countries for the years 1970 and 2005. 
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make
comparisons where relevant.
Write at least 150 words.

The bar chart illustrates the proportion of female school-leavers going into higher education in
British, America, Canada, Japan and Germany between 1970 and 2005.
Overall, the percentages for the five countries all witnessed an increase. In addition, Canada's
figure remained the highest while Japan still registered the lowest proportion over the period
shown.
As can be seen from the chart, the percentage of Canadian women going on to studying after
leaving school stayed the same, at about 60%, while Japan had the fifth rank among the five
countries in both 1970 (20%) and 2005 (40%). The USA ranked third in both of the years with
40% and about 58% for the years 1970 and 2005 respectively.
The percentage of women who continue studying for higher education in all countries between
1970 and 2005 except Canada which this proportion remained constant for these two years.
Among countries with an upward trend in the mentioned percentage, Japan had the maximum
increase (by 100%) and Germany had the minimum rise in this context with just by 10%
increase (50% in 1970 to 55% in 2005).