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.
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The given bar charts
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the activities of graduate and postgraduate
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at the end
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of their studies in the United Kingdom in 2008.
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, UK postgraduate
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devoted the highest proportion of their activities to
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study,
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postgraduate
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who undertook voluntary
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had the lowest proportion.
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the first chart, approximately 3000 graduate
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pursued
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education, compared to 3500 engaged in voluntary
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.
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, the numbers of people who were unemployed and those working part-time were very similar in numbers, with the former at 16235 and the latter at 17735. The second chart shows that the population of postgraduate pupils engaging in
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study topped the list (about 3000), followed by part-time
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slightly above 2500.
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,
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345 postgraduate
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did voluntary
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, 1625 of them were unemployed.
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Linking words: Don't use the same linking words: "further, while".
Common mistake: Your writing should be 150-250 words.
Vocabulary: Replace the words students, work with synonyms.
Vocabulary: The word "charts" was used 3 times.
Vocabulary: The word "proportion" was used 2 times.
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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