The charts below show what UK graduate and postgraduate students who did not go into full-time work did after leaving college in 2008.

The charts below show what UK graduate and postgraduate students who did not go into full-time work did after leaving college in 2008.
The bar graphs show the number of
graduate
and postgraduate
students
in the UK who chose other options
beside
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full-time work after graduating in 2008.
Overall
,
students
who have decided to
further
their studies after graduating dominated the results. The rank between the two groups is the same with more than 60,000
graduate
students
and 6,000 postgraduate
students
. In general,
graduate
students
outnumbered the result if compared to postgraduate
students
. In 2008, 29,665
graduate
students
and 2,725 postgraduate
students
decided to continue their education after graduating
instead
of searching for a full-time job. There are more than 15,000 and 2,500
students
(
graduate
and postgraduate respectively) who chose to do a part-time job
instead
of becoming a full-time employee. More than 15,000
students
(16,235
graduate
students
and 1,625 postgraduate
students
) remain unemployed after finishing their studies in 2008. Only a few amounts of people (3,500
graduate
students
and 345 postgraduate
students
) applied as a volunteer after leaving college.
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Linking words: Don't use the same linking words: "instead".
Basic structure: Change the second paragraph.
Vocabulary: Replace the words graduate, students with synonyms.
Vocabulary: Rephrase the word "show" in your introduction.
Vocabulary: Only 6 basic words for charts were used.
Vocabulary: Use several vocabularies to present the data in the second paragraph.

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Topic Vocabulary:
  • Graduate
  • Postgraduate
  • Full-time work
  • Further education
  • Part-time work
  • Unemployment
  • Volunteering
  • Traveling
  • Gap year
  • Career progression
  • Job market
  • Transition
  • Academic life
  • Professional sphere
  • Economic factors
  • Social factors
  • Financial crisis
  • Long-term impact
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