Band 6+: You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The charts below show the percentage of students on an adult education centre taking various courses offered in 1985 and this year. You should write at least 150 words.

The pie charts illustrates the proportion of students taking an education centre, categorized by separate courses between 1985 and this year.

Overall, the number of students choosing modern languages course accounted for the highest percentage over the period shown. It is clear that the local history and the music appreciation courses were turned into the IT one.

In 1985, the proportion of students taking languages include French, Germany and Spanish made up the most with 24%, which decreased slightly to 17% this year. By contrast, the figure for fitness and dance course remained unchanged with 22% both in 1985 and now.

Students choosing music appreciation course took up the lowest, with nearly one in ten, compared to 15% of local history course. However, these two courses were replaced with IT one, which contributed the highest proportion this year with 27%, followed by cookery with 19%, which increased gradually by 5% compared to its figure in the year 1985. Meanwhile, the number of students on the adult education centre taking art courses consisted of 17% in 1985, which then dropped to 15% this year.