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we are here to clarify and teach you about the best way to write an overall trend
for writing task one we have a great question from a student an example of something we see a lot
in overall trends that is completely wrong um and we're gonna tell you exactly how to write
an impressive yet simple overall trend that the examiner must see for a seven or higher
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student aubry what did this student ask about yes this is a student in our three keys facebook group
who posted hi aubry i just want to clarify in the part 1 academic essay in the overall how many
trends are we going to write is one trend enough or do we need two to three and this student posted
an essay that has three sets of information so it's a static essay but we have dates that these
railway systems were opened length of routes and passengers per year so i see where the student is
coming from like oh do i need a separate overall trend to share the highest and lowest for each of
these yeah so it does depend on the question guys let's just answer that question first
before we talk about this um kind of complicated static graph um there's not one answer like i
can't just say just always one overall trend and that's it for every question no of course not um
if it is a simple change over time line graph right then you can just talk about overall what
increased what decrease like overall the female numbers uh skyrocketed while the male numbers
dropped right um what's the biggest change that's what we need to talk about for change over time
if there is a lot to talk about if there are like six lines on this graph right
in order to save time it's okay just to have like one overall trend so you could say like overall
every product experienced a rise in sales throughout the period um but the most
important thing there guys is you have to have overall what are the biggest changes that's it
for change over time right for static you want to say overall this is the highest or overall this
is the highest and the lowest okay um if you have time then i recommend saying both overall
what's the highest and lowest numbers so there would be two parts to that overall trend um so
that's really like your goal to have that higher level overall trend that's more complete but again
we can't just say like overall things changed like that's that's the biggest misunderstanding i see
in students writing and i do see that a lot right a very general overall trend to just say
overall there was a big difference in the information or overall there was a drastic change
this is not really showing overall what's happening in the chart you do need to get specific
enough to where you're giving an overall picture of what you're looking at in that chart and
like get specific like we said but don't give any numbers right in the overall trend okay because
these numbers these are the most important numbers these are going to be right away in the body you
don't want to repeat numbers right so no numbers in the overall trend so remember for change over
time you're just like overall this increase this decreased of course use better vocabulary than
that um but that's your goal and then for static overall this was the highest this was the lowest
now people waste a lot of time trying to find a pattern a connection between these numbers a
correlation and usually guys there is none there is no correlation between those numbers right
um so don't waste your time looking for it but if you follow our system
and you know what to circle right when you're planning you will see if there is a correlation
okay you don't have to spend time looking for it and like we said guys usually there is not a
correlation but if there is it should be mentioned in the overall trend so we are talking about one
of these complicated questions today um can you describe the graph that we're talking about aubrey
yes this is from one of the cambridge practice books so students you may have seen this before
it's labeled underground railway systems and on the left you have a bunch of the
biggest cities london paris tokyo washington dc and then it has the date that each of them
opened their railway system 1863 1900 all these dates and then a list of kilometers of route
so the length of route for each of these railways and then a list of numbers that are passengers per
year in millions 775 1191 right for each city how many passengers ride that train each year
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part of the planning guys is just knowing what are the important numbers and circle those important
numbers and then you have a clear view of what the overall trend is what numbers you're gonna
put in your essay it's all planned for you before you start writing so if we circle the
um the oldest train here that is london opened in 1863 right that is the oldest remember guys static
is all about superlatives highest youngest oldest smallest it's all about superlatives so the oldest
train is london and we can also see that london has the most track it has the longest length of
track of any of the other cities so these are correlated that is part of your overall trend
but we can't ignore the passenger numbers your overall trend has to be exactly that overall
you can't ignore a whole category so passengers there's no correlation right so the trains that
carry the most are in tokyo which is neither the youngest nor the oldest not the longest shortest
nothing else special but it carries the most passengers so we have to have both of these
in our overall trend so what could we write for this sentence aubrey yeah so you could say overall
london is both the oldest and longest railway while tokyo transports the most individuals nice
great paraphrasing man i love it um yeah so hopefully guys this specific example because it
is more complicated and our tips today will help clarify how to write an overall trend because at
the end of the day guys it is only one sentence in your essay it should be only one sentence in your
essay but if you don't have an overall trend your task score automatically goes down to a five if
you have an overall trend but it's not great right if it's if you say overall but then don't actually
give an overall trend again task score five so guys it is just one sentence but it has to be
great if you're gonna get even a six for task so this is really important it's a he can be a huge
time suck yeah if you don't have enough practice and you're not really clear on what goes in it
like you said students can waste so much time trying to find a correlation or trying to figure
out what to include this should be very clear very simple to you before you go in on test day you
need strategies you would need to understand for each essay it should be pretty quick and simple
for you to pull out what goes in the overall trend totally um so guys we do guarantee that our
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you need on test day exactly all right aubry have a great rest of the week youtube bye-bye
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