IELTS Task 1 line graph: Australian exports to four countries
The main features of this line graph: China records the largest rise and replaces Japan as the leading destination among the four. Japan declines overall while the US fluctuates and finishes lower.
60 students’ answers below, each marked by Axiom, from band 4.0 to 8.0. Updated on 23 October 2026.
The question
The graph below shows the percentage of Australian exports to four countries from 1990 to 2012.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
Show the data
| Japan | US | China | India | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 26 | 11 | 2 | 1 |
| 1995 | 20 | 8 | 3 | 1 |
| 2000 | 18 | 11 | 5 | 1 |
| 2005 | 18 | 8 | 11 | 5 |
| 2010 | 17 | 5 | 25 | 7 |
| 2012 | 17 | 7 | 28 | 5 |
What your overview should cover
An answer reaches the higher Task Achievement bands only with a clear overview of the main features, not every number. For this line graph, that means:
- China records the largest rise and replaces Japan as the leading destination among the four.
- Japan declines overall while the US fluctuates and finishes lower.
- India rises from a very low base, peaks in 2010 and then declines.
How answers to this question were marked
Axiom marked 62 answers to this question between 22 August 2024 and 17 July 2026. Their average overall band was 6.5, and coherence & cohesion was most often the weakest criterion (82% of answers). Estimated by AI. It isn’t an official IELTS score.
- Task achievement
- 6.9
- Coherence & cohesion
- 6.4
- Lexical resource
- 6.5
- Grammar & accuracy
- 6.5
| 5.0 or below | 11 | |
|---|---|---|
| 5.5–6.0 | 14 | |
| 6.5–7.0 | 17 | |
| 7.5 or above | 20 |
Students’ answers on this question, marked by Axiom
Real answers, shared without their writers’ names, newest first. Each opens with its revisions marked in place. Estimated by AI. It isn’t an official IELTS score.
Overall band, an AI estimate: 7.5
Answer #60
Task achievement 8.0, coherence 8.0, vocabulary 7.0, grammar 7.0
The line graph compares the proportion of exports from Australia to four countries- Japan, the US, China, and India- between 1990 to 2012. Overall, the chart shows…
Overall band, an AI estimate: 6.5
Answer #59
Task achievement 7.0, coherence 7.0, vocabulary 7.0, grammar 6.0
The line graph illustrates the percentage of the exports from Australia to Japan, US, China, and India in the given period of 22 years between 1990 and 2012. Overall,…
Overall band, an AI estimate: 6.0
Answer #58
Task achievement 7.0, coherence 6.0, vocabulary 6.0, grammar 6.0
The line graph compares the perecenatge of Australian exports to four different nations from 1990 to 2012. Overall, it is clear that the percentage of exports to China…
Overall band, an AI estimate: 6.5
Answer #57
Task achievement 7.0, coherence 6.0, vocabulary 7.0, grammar 6.0
The line graph shows the percentage of Australian exports to Japan, the US, China, and India between 1990 and 2012. Overall, what can be seen from the graph is that…
Overall band, an AI estimate: 7.5
Answer #56
Task achievement 8.0, coherence 7.0, vocabulary 7.0, grammar 8.0
The line graph shows the percentage of Australian exports going to Japan, the US, China, and India between 1990 and 2012. Overall, exports to Japan and the US went down…
Overall band, an AI estimate: 8.0
Answer #55
Task achievement 9.0, coherence 8.0, vocabulary 8.0, grammar 8.0
The line graph illustrates the shifts in the percentage of Australian exports to four specific countries – Japan, the US, China, and India – over the period from 1990 to…
Overall band, an AI estimate: 7.5
Answer #54
Task achievement 8.0, coherence 7.0, vocabulary 7.0, grammar 8.0
The graph below illustrates the percentage of Australian products transferred to Japan, China, the USA and India from 1990 to 2012. Overall, Japan was the main export…
Overall band, an AI estimate: 6.5
Answer #53
Task achievement 7.0, coherence 6.0, vocabulary 7.0, grammar 7.0
The graph below illustrates the percentage of Australian products transfer to Japan, China, USA and India from 1990 to 2012. Overall, Japan was the main export partner of…
Overall band, an AI estimate: 5.5
Answer #52
Task achievement 6.0, coherence 6.0, vocabulary 6.0, grammar 5.0
The line graph illustrates the changes exporting to specific 4 countries: Japan, the USA, China and India between 1990 and 2012. The unit gives percentages . Overall,…
Overall band, an AI estimate: 6.0
Answer #51
Task achievement 6.0, coherence 6.0, vocabulary 6.0, grammar 6.0
The line graph shows the proportion of Australian exports in four countries- Japan, US, China and India between 1990 and 2012. Overall, Japan indicates the highest amount…
Overall band, an AI estimate: 5.5
Answer #50
Task achievement 6.0, coherence 5.0, vocabulary 6.0, grammar 5.0
The line graph shows the proportion of exports sent to four different countries between 1990 and 2012. Overall, it is clear that the figure for China’s exports stood at a…
Overall band, an AI estimate: 5.0
Answer #49
Task achievement 5.0, coherence 5.0, vocabulary 5.0, grammar 5.0
The graph illustrates information about the percentage of Australian export to 4 countries over the period 22 year, between 1990 and 2012. Overall, in the highest…
Overall band, an AI estimate: 5.0
Answer #48
Task achievement 5.0, coherence 5.0, vocabulary 5.0, grammar 5.0
The line graps shows the Australian experting goods to four contries from 1990 to 2012. It is clear that Japan was dominant option for Australia to expert, while India…
Overall band, an AI estimate: 4.0
Answer #47
Task achievement 3.0, coherence 4.0, vocabulary 5.0, grammar 5.0
The line graph details how many different forest industries like Paper&Packaging, Sawn-Wood and Wood Pulp were produced in the UK between 1980 and 2000, with data…
Overall band, an AI estimate: 7.0
Answer #46
Task achievement 8.0, coherence 7.0, vocabulary 7.0, grammar 7.0
The line graph illustrates the information on the proportion of Australian export to four different regions from 1990 to 2012. Overall, the huge disparity between the…
Overall band, an AI estimate: 7.0
Answer #45
Task achievement 8.0, coherence 7.0, vocabulary 7.0, grammar 7.0
The line graph illustrates Australia's export rate to four countries in 22 years, from 1990 to 2012. Overall, the percentage of exports to Japan and the US showed a…
Overall band, an AI estimate: 5.0
Answer #44
Task achievement 5.0, coherence 5.0, vocabulary 5.0, grammar 5.0
The line graph compares about the number of Australian exports to Japan, United States, China and India from 1990 to 2012. Overview, the Japan had a lead in the begin of…
Overall band, an AI estimate: 7.5
Answer #43
Task achievement 8.0, coherence 7.0, vocabulary 7.0, grammar 8.0
The line graph illustrates the proportion of Australian exports to 4 different countries between 1990 and 2012. Overall, the percentage of Australian exports to Japan and…
Overall band, an AI estimate: 7.0
Answer #42
Task achievement 8.0, coherence 7.0, vocabulary 7.0, grammar 7.0
The chart compares four countries in terms of Australian exports between 1990 and 2012. Overall, While Australian exports to Japan and the US decreased, the reverse is…
Overall band, an AI estimate: 7.5
Answer #41
Task achievement 8.0, coherence 7.0, vocabulary 7.0, grammar 8.0
The line graph provides information about the proportion of Australian exports to four countries, namely Japan, the US, China, and India, between 1990 and 2012. In terms…
Overall band, an AI estimate: 7.0
Answer #40
Task achievement 8.0, coherence 7.0, vocabulary 7.0, grammar 7.0
The line graph presents data on the proportion of Australian exports to four countries, namely Japan, the US, China, and India, between 1990 and 2012. Overall, Australian…
Overall band, an AI estimate: 8.0
Answer #39
Task achievement 8.0, coherence 8.0, vocabulary 8.0, grammar 8.0
The line graph illustrates the proportion of Australian exports to four countries—Japan, the United States, China, and India—over the period from 1990 to 2012. Overall,…
Overall band, an AI estimate: 7.5
Answer #38
Task achievement 8.0, coherence 7.0, vocabulary 8.0, grammar 8.0
The line graph illustrates the proportion of Australian exports to four countries, namely Japan, the US, China, and India between 1990 and 2012. In general, while the…
Overall band, an AI estimate: 8.0
Answer #37
Task achievement 8.0, coherence 8.0, vocabulary 8.0, grammar 8.0
The line chart illustrates the percentage of Australian exports sent to Japan, the United States, China, and India between 1990 and 2012. Overall, while exports to China…
Overall band, an AI estimate: 7.5
Answer #36
Task achievement 8.0, coherence 7.0, vocabulary 7.0, grammar 8.0
The graph compares the proportion of goods exported from Australia to four countries between 1990 and 2012. Overall, China became the dominant importer of Australian…
Overall band, an AI estimate: 7.5
Answer #35
Task achievement 8.0, coherence 7.0, vocabulary 7.0, grammar 8.0
The line graph compares the proportions of Australian export to Japan, US, China, and India between 1990 and 2012. Overall, it is apparent that Australian export to China…
Overall band, an AI estimate: 7.0
Answer #34
Task achievement 7.0, coherence 7.0, vocabulary 7.0, grammar 8.0
The line graph shows the percentage of Australian exports to four different countries: Japan, the US, China, and India over the period from 1990 to 2012. In general, it…
Overall band, an AI estimate: 7.5
Answer #33
Task achievement 8.0, coherence 7.0, vocabulary 7.0, grammar 8.0
The graph illustrates the proportion of Australian exports to different countries, Japan, US, China, and India, between 1990 and 2012. Overall, while the percentage of…
Overall band, an AI estimate: 7.5
Answer #32
Task achievement 8.0, coherence 7.0, vocabulary 7.0, grammar 8.0
The chart compares the proportion of Australian goods exported to four different countries – namely Japan, the US, China and India – over 22 years (1990-2012). Overall,…
Overall band, an AI estimate: 7.0
Answer #31
Task achievement 8.0, coherence 7.0, vocabulary 7.0, grammar 6.0
The chart compares four countries in term of import from Australia between 1990 and 2012. Overall, while China and India experienced a growth in imports from Australia,…
Overall band, an AI estimate: 4.5
Answer #30
Task achievement 5.0, coherence 5.0, vocabulary 5.0, grammar 4.0
The line graph shows the percentage of Australian exports to four countries from 1990 and to 2012. Overll, It is clearly evident that Japan and Use significantly decrease…
Overall band, an AI estimate: 6.5
Answer #29
Task achievement 7.0, coherence 6.0, vocabulary 7.0, grammar 6.0
The line graph provides information about the proportion of exports of Australia to Japan, the US, China and India between 1990 and 2012. Overall, it is clear that while…
Overall band, an AI estimate: 6.5
Answer #28
Task achievement 7.0, coherence 6.0, vocabulary 7.0, grammar 6.0
The line graph illustrates information about the proportion of exportation of Australia across four different countries from 1990 to 2012. Overall, export rates to China…
Overall band, an AI estimate: 7.0
Answer #27
Task achievement 7.0, coherence 7.0, vocabulary 7.0, grammar 7.0
The line graph depics the proportion of products exported to four various nations from 1990 to 2012. Looking at the overall perspectives, it was observed that, while…
Overall band, an AI estimate: 7.5
Answer #26
Task achievement 8.0, coherence 8.0, vocabulary 7.0, grammar 7.0
The line graph illustrates the proportion of Australian exports to four countries over 12 years. Overall, while Japan was the largest importer of Australian goods, for…
Overall band, an AI estimate: 4.5
Answer #25
Task achievement 5.0, coherence 5.0, vocabulary 5.0, grammar 4.0
The line graph illutrates the Avstraliya exports 4 countries. Firstl exports has india it 1990 in a year the percentage 0 formed and continue 1995 with 2000 year. This…
Overall band, an AI estimate: 6.0
Answer #24
Task achievement 6.0, coherence 6.0, vocabulary 7.0, grammar 6.0
The line graph shows changes in proportions regarding the Australian exports to 4 different countries such as Japan, India, China and the US between 1990 and 2012.…
Overall band, an AI estimate: 5.0
Answer #23
Task achievement 5.0, coherence 5.0, vocabulary 5.0, grammar 5.0
The line graph shows changes in proportions regarding the Australian exports to 4 different countries such as Japan, India, China and the US between 1990 and 2012.…
Overall band, an AI estimate: 7.5
Answer #22
Task achievement 8.0, coherence 7.0, vocabulary 7.0, grammar 8.0
The line graph illustrates Australian exports in four countries: Japan, US, China and India, from 1990 to 2012, measured in percentages. Overall, Japan and the US saw a…
Overall band, an AI estimate: 7.5
Answer #21
Task achievement 8.0, coherence 7.0, vocabulary 7.0, grammar 8.0
The line graph illustrates how Australian exports to Japan, China, India, and the US changed between 1990 and 2012. Overall, Australia's exports to China and India…
Overall band, an AI estimate: 7.0
Answer #20
Task achievement 7.0, coherence 7.0, vocabulary 7.0, grammar 7.0
The line graph provides information about the percentage of Australian exits to four countries: Japan, US, China and India between 1990 and 2012. Overall, Japan and China…
Overall band, an AI estimate: 5.0
Answer #19
Task achievement 5.0, coherence 5.0, vocabulary 5.0, grammar 5.0
The line graph illustrates the proportion of Australian exports to four countries. Overall, while the percentage of exports in China and Japan increased over the period,…
Overall band, an AI estimate: 7.5
Answer #18
Task achievement 8.0, coherence 7.0, vocabulary 7.0, grammar 8.0
The line graph shows the rate of Australian exports to four countries: Japan, the USA, China, and India between 1990 and 2012. Overall, the percentage of exports for two…
Overall band, an AI estimate: 6.5
Answer #17
Task achievement 7.0, coherence 6.0, vocabulary 7.0, grammar 6.0
The graph compares percentage of how much Australia exported to four countries during 22-year-period, beginning in 1990. Overall, import figures of China and India showed…
Overall band, an AI estimate: 6.0
Answer #16
Task achievement 6.0, coherence 6.0, vocabulary 6.0, grammar 6.0
The line graph illustrates the percentage of Australian exports to Japan, the US, China, and India from 1990 to 2012. Overall, while the percentage of exports to China…
Overall band, an AI estimate: 7.5
Answer #15
Task achievement 8.0, coherence 7.0, vocabulary 7.0, grammar 8.0
The line graph illustrates the proportion of exportations made to Japan, the US, China, and India by Australia between 1990 and 2012. Overall, Australia started exporting…
Overall band, an AI estimate: 7.5
Answer #14
Task achievement 8.0, coherence 7.0, vocabulary 7.0, grammar 8.0
The line graph illustrates changes in Australian exports to four different countries between 1990 and 2012. Overall, while Japan was the main importer of Australia for a…
Overall band, an AI estimate: 6.0
Answer #13
Task achievement 6.0, coherence 6.0, vocabulary 6.0, grammar 6.0
The line graph illustrates the proportion of Australian export to four different countries between 1990 and 2012. Overall, both of China and India experienced an upward…
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