WRITING TASK 1 You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The charts below show the information about a US bus company between 1999 and 2003.  Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The pie charts compare the punctual

rate

of buses arriving between actual

performance

and target

performance

and illustrate the figures

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passengers’ complaints from 1999 to 2003. It is evident that the target

performance

of buses arriving on time gradually dropped during the period

while

the actual

performance

saw a fluctuation and

finally

returned next to 80% in 2003. Apart from that, the complaints number presented an upward trend from 1999 to 2003. Looking at the information in more detail, in 1999, the actual

performance

of buses arriving on time was similar to the predicted one (around 80%). During the period from 2001 to 2002,

actual

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the actual

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punctual

rate

shared almost the same percentage (next to 40%), following with the figure in 2000 (about 30% ),

while

the target

rate

remained

steadily

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around

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at around

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40% from 2000 to 2003. 2003 witnessed a sharp rise in

actual

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the actual

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rate

(almost 78%), which presented the hugest gap between

actual

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the actual

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rate

and

predicted

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the predicted

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rate

.

Additionally

, we can see from the second pie chart,

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that the

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number of

complains

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complaints

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indicated an increasing trend throughout the five years.

Over all

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Overall

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, the number rose from 60 in 1999 to 120 in 2003.