The charts below give information about USA marriage and divorce rates between 1970 and 2000, and the marital status of adult Americans in two of the years. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where

Essay topics:

The charts below give information about USA marriage and divorce rates between 1970 and 2000, and the marital status of adult Americans in two of the years. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

There are two bar charts giving information about USA citizen's matrimonial status in percentage and number.

First bar chart enumerates the marriages and divorces in four decades, from 1970 to 2000, whereas the other provides percentage of adults who married, never married, widowed, or got divorced.

Regarding to the first bar graph, value of marriages starting with 2.5 millions declining gradually from year 1970 to 2000, except in the year 1980 where it remains constant. With further decrement, we have 2.25 million in the year 1990, and finally, the figure drops down to 2 millions in...

*** The full content of this essay is available to VIP readers

Subscribe as testbig VIP readers and get unlimited access to essays on the top list.

Votes
Average: 9 (6 votes)
Essay Categories

Comments

It is on top list:
http://www.testbig.com/essay-categories/ielts

Attribute Value Ideal
Score: 8 out of 9
Category: Excellent Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 9 8
No. of Words: 211 200
No. of Characters: 1002 800
No. of Different Words: 121 100
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.811 3.7
Average Word Length: 4.749 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.614 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 69 50
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 51 40
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 34 30
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 25 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.444 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.79 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.667 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.43 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.706 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.238 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5