Questions 1-10

WRiTing TASk 1 
Sample answer 
The chart shows that there is considerable variation 
in the ways people accessed news in the country in 
question between 2013 and 2017. The most noticeable 
trend was the huge decline in the percentage of the 
population getting their news from printed newspapers. 
This saw a collapse from 42% in 2013 to just 22% over 
five years. By contrast, the proportion using the internet 
for news grew from 32% to 41% in 2015 and then saw a 
massive rise to 68% by 2017. Figures for radio news saw 
almost no change, holding steady at approximately one 
third. TV news had a sizeable decline between 2013 and 
2015 (79% to 67%) but this was followed by a small rise to 
71% in 2017. It is noticeable that in 2013 TV was by far the 
most popular medium for news access with a 35% gap 
between this and the next most popular – newspapers, 
at 42%. In 2017, TV was still the most used medium but 
a close second was the internet and the difference had 
narrowed to just 3% – 71% compared to 68%.