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Band 6+: The chart below gives information about the journeys to school by children aged 11 to 16 in the UK in a year. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

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The image is a clustered bar graph titled "Journeys to school" displaying percentages of journeys to school via walk, bicycle, car, and bus within four distance ranges: 0 - 1 mile, 1 - 2 miles, 2 - 5 miles, and over 5 miles. Walk: 85%, 13%, 2%, 0%; Bicycle: 1%, 1%, 3%, 5%; Car: 10%, 36%, 72%, 80%; Bus: 4%, 50%, 23%, 15%. The y-axis measures the percentage of journeys to school from 0% to 100%, and the x-axis categorizes transportation modes and distance ranges.

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The graph illustrates how children between 11 and 16 in the UK went to school in a year.

Overall, students in the UK chose to go on foot and ride a bike to go to school when the distance was under 2 miles. In addition, students who lived away from school over 5 miles, chose to go to school by bus.

The journey under 1 mile in walking was the highest, at about 90%, and the figures for bicycle, car and bus were lower, at about 50%, 8% and under 5%, respectively. At the same time, the distance from 1 to 2 miles in bicycle far exceeded that of walking, car and bus, with respective figures being 77%, 60%, 20% and 10%.

About 50% of the students who chose bus, had a distance between 2 and 5 miles, compared to about 48% in bicycle, 32% in car and 25% in walking. The journey over 5 miles only showed in bus and car, which was 67% and 22%.

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miles: 5

school: 4

students: 3

chose: 3

distance: 3

under: 3

walking: 3

about: 3

bicycle: 3

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6.5

The report provides a good summary of the main features of the graph, but some details are not accurately reported, and some comparisons are not made.

Coherence & Cohesion

The report is easy to follow, but some sentences are not well-connected, and cohesion is not consistently used.

Lexical Resource

The vocabulary is limited, and some words are not used accurately, such as 'exceeded' and 'far exceeded'.

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The grammar is mostly accurate, but there are some minor errors, such as subject-verb agreement and tense consistency.

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