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The chart shows the unemployment situation in Australia in the year 2012.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
You should write at least 150 words.
The graph illustrates the rate of unemployment in Australia during the year 2012 in four quarters.
Overall, there was a decline in number in rural areas whereas a reverse trend has been observed in the urban areas in the aforementioned period.
In rural areas, there was a steady fall in unemployment during the first 2 quarters from about 6.5% to 4.5% followed by a rise of upto about 5.5% in the third quarter and fell to nearly 5% by fourth quarter.
However, in urban areas an opposite trend has been observed. The percentage surged from slightly more than 2% to 4% towards the end of the first quarter. After which the proportions fluctuated until the fourth quarter, with a major dip to nearly 2% and a small dip from 4% to 3.5% at the end of second and third quarters, respectively. In the fourth quarter, the rate continued in an upward trend to around 4%.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 7.0 out of 9
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 2 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 2 2
No. of Sentences: 7 10
No. of Words: 155 200
No. of Characters: 685 1000
No. of Different Words: 80 100
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.528 4.0
Average Word Length: 4.419 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.6 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 43 60
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 29 50
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 18 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 10 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.143 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.162 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.714 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.467 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.746 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.101 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 4