Writing Practice for IELTS Task 1 In the academic writing test, you are asked to describe some form of visual information, usually presented in a graph, chart, diagram, table, or other form. When you write your response to the IELTS writing test Task 1 on test day, remember the four official IELTS marking criteria used by the examiner: Task Achievement Lexical Resource Grammatical Range and Accuracy Cohesion and coherence These marking criteria apply to both writing tasks (Task 1 and Task 2) in the Academic test. This writing practice for IELTS academic Task 1 uses an example from Cambridge 8 authentic practice tests. IELTS Writing Task 1 You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The pie chart below shows the main reasons why agricultural land becomes less productive. The table shows how these causes affected three regions of the world during the 1990s. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons