The general format for writing academic writing task 1 is as follows

Lexical Resource:
A) Uses a wide range of vocabulary with very natural and sophisticated control 
of lexical features. 
B) Rare minor errors occur only as ‘slips’. 
What will be assessed by the examiner? 
a) The range of vocabulary you have used in your writing. 
b) How accurately and appropriately you have used words/ phrases while 
presenting the graph(s) as a report. 
Tips: Do NOT use words/ phrases that are already given in the question. Do 
so only if there is no alternative word(s)/ phrase(s) to convey the same 
meaning/idea. 
Grammatical Range and Accuracy:
A) Uses a wide range of structures with full flexibility and accuracy. 
B) Rare minor errors occur only as ‘slips’. 
Tips: 
Do not use the same sentence structure and data comparison/ contrasting 
style over and over again. Bring a variety in your writing to show that you can 
formulate different sentence structures without making any grammatical 
mistakes. 

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Vocabulary to represent highest and lowest points in graphs: 
Type
Verb
Noun
Highest 
Point 
peaked / culminated / climaxed / 
reach the peak / hit the peak / touch 
the highest point / reach the vertex/ 
reach the apex 
a (/the) peak / a (/the) pinnacle / a (/the) vertex / 
the highest point/ an (/the) apex / a (/the) 
summit, a (/the) top, a (/the) pinnacle, a (/the) 
acme, a (/the) zenith, 
Lowest 
Point 
touch the lowest point / get the lowest 
point / reached the nadir 
the lowest point / the lowest mark / bottommost 
point / rock bottom point/ bottommost mark / 
nadir/ the all-time low/ the lowest level/ the 
bottom/ rock-bottom 
 
Example: 
1. The price of the oil reached a peak amounting $20 in February and again 
touched the lowest point amounting only $10 in July. 
2. Student enrollment in foreign Universities and Colleges increased 
dramatically hitting a peak of over 20 thousand in 2004. 
3. The highest number of books was sold in July while it was lowest in 
December. 
4. The oil price reached a pick in 2003 while it was lowest in 2006. 
5. The selling volume of the DVD hit a pick with 2 million copies sold in a 
month but after just three months it reached the bottom with only 20 thousand 
sold in a month.

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