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 given table compares four linguistic groups in terms of the average results they achieved in single sections as well as the overall band scores at the IELTS General Test in 2010.
Overall, German speakers were the most competent candidates among 4 categories, reflected by their highest band scores in most skills and overall result. In addition, all surveyed language groups were competent most in speaking section.
Turning into detail, in listening skill, while German got an average score of 6.8, that of Malay candidates was significantly lower, with 6.2 points. Likewise, they achieved band scores of 6.0 in writing and 6.6 in speaking skill, ranking fourth among all groups, compared to the result of 6.6 and 6.9 points, in the same order, of German test takers. By contrast, in comparison to Malay, whose six-point-four average reading scores were the highest surveyed result, that of German was slightly lower, with 6.3.
Regarding to other language groups, French and Indonesian candidates shared the same average points in listening and reading sections, with 6.3 and 6.1, respectively. Unlike these skills, French speakers had a writing score of 6.5, which was remarkably higher than the figure for Indonesian counterparts, with only 6.1. On the contrary, Indonesian test takers were generally more fluent in speaking section, in which their six-point-seven average score was moderately higher than that of French candidates.
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Suggestion:
... higher than that of French candidates.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
if, likewise, regarding, so, well, while, in addition, as well as, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 7.0 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 1.00243902439 0% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 6.8 88% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 3.15609756098 190% => OK
Pronoun: 8.0 5.60731707317 143% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 38.0 33.7804878049 112% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 3.97073170732 76% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1227.0 965.302439024 127% => OK
No of words: 226.0 196.424390244 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.42920353982 4.92477711251 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.87727950738 3.73543355544 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69916219312 2.65546596893 102% => OK
Unique words: 126.0 106.607317073 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.557522123894 0.547539520022 102% => OK
syllable_count: 351.0 283.868780488 124% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.45097560976 110% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 1.53170731707 196% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.33902439024 23% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.07073170732 93% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.482926829268 0% => OK
Preposition: 13.0 3.36585365854 386% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 7.0 8.94146341463 78% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 32.0 22.4926829268 142% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 88.5163423168 43.030603864 206% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 175.285714286 112.824112599 155% => OK
Words per sentence: 32.2857142857 22.9334400587 141% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.7142857143 5.23603664747 224% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 1.69756097561 59% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 3.70975609756 108% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 1.13902439024 88% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.09268292683 49% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.171384891936 0.215688989381 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0888943350502 0.103423049105 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0587962933773 0.0843802449381 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.120309337378 0.15604864568 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0635512679237 0.0819641961636 78% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 20.3 13.2329268293 153% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.0 61.2550243902 64% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 6.51609756098 172% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.8 10.3012195122 153% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.81 11.4140731707 130% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.14 8.06136585366 113% => OK
difficult_words: 56.0 40.7170731707 138% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.4329268293 96% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.8 10.9970731707 135% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.0658536585 136% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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