101Helpful Hints for IELTS

101 Helpful Hints for IELTS
As you can see, the statistical data can be presented in a variety of ways:
... as numbers functioning as adjectives inside or outside brackets
... as numbers expressed in word form {"twice the profit", "three-fold" etc.)
... as numbers listed in the order mentioned using the word "respectively".
Statistics are often expressed in percentages:
The EEC and the USA both had 10%. The profit remained steady at 10%.
The profit rose to 10%. The profit peaked at just over 10%.
The monthly profit
increased
fell
by lO% from 10% to 20%.
from 20% to 10%.
Slovakia had
the largest
percentage
number
of students
10% of the students.
(10%).
(245).
10% of the students were from the Federation of Russia.
France accounted for. 10% of the students.
They made
twice
three times
four times
the
profit percentage
percentage of profit
in May than in March.
The
profit percentage
percentage of profit
doubled
increased
decreased
three-fold
four-fold
from March to May.
Company A's profit percentage rose steadily, whereas thaLof Company B fell slightly.
There were more
respectively).
Note also the following structures for presenting numbers and statistical data:
School A has
almost
nearly
approximately
about
just over
over
a
one
a
one
(a)
one
quarter of
third of
half of
three quarters of
the (total) number of students.
School A
has
almost
nearly
approximately
about
just over
over
almost / nearly
about / approximately
about / approximately
exactly /precisely
a quarter
half
three quarters
twice
three times
as many (students) as
as much (space) as
the same
(number
(proportion
(amount
as many students
as much space
of students) as
as School B.
School B.
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