Band 7+: The bar chart shows the percentage of 13-year-old students who had a calculator and who ever used calculators in school in 6 different countries in 1991. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. Write at least 150 words.

The given bar chart illustrates the proportion of 13-year-old pupils having calculators or ever using calculators in 6 distinct nations in 1991.

Overall, it is clear that French students tent to use calculators at school while it was not a popular tool in Korea.

At the age of 13, 97.9 percent of students in France had calculators while Isarel and Hungary showed lower figures, about 93.6 and 86.7 proport. The number of French students having used calculator at school also reached the peak of the data, approximately 94.2 percent, followed by Hungary with 71.0 percemt and significantly lower than the second-ranked country was Israel with 48.5 percent.

Meanwhile, both Taiwan and Ireland had a medium data in both fields. The percentages of them were roughly from 57.5 to 57.7 percent for pupils having calculators while the other field presented a higher proportion at 62.2 percent by Taiwan and a much lower one at 25.3 percent with Ireland. The last ranked country was Korea showing the most modest figures with 20.3 percent of students who had calculators and 3.7 percent of students who had used calculators at school.