Preparation for my IELTS Academic writing Hello, I'm preparing for the IELTS exam, and the writing part is the most difficult for me so I'm trying to practice using exam's samples. Please I need a help to correct my essay. Thank you. -------------------------------------------- Question: The chart below gives information about the most common sports played in New Zealand in 2002. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. ---------------------------------------- The chart shows boys’ and girls’ common sports played in New Zealand. Overall, almost equal quantities of both sexes participated in Tennis and Basketball. However, considerably number of girls preferred Netball, while boys enjoyed soccer. According to the graph, we can notice that quarter of girls played Netball (25%). Swimming comes in the second position with 22% of participation, followed by tennis and Basketball, which are exercised by 7% and 6% respectively. Soccer and Athletics are less preferred by female children, chosen by 5% and 4% respectively. Finally, Marital Arts (2%) and Cricket represent the least popular activities among girls. Turning to boys’ preferences, we can observe that the top activity for boys Is playing soccer (24%). Like female children, swimming takes the second position but with a smaller percentage, by 14% of participation rate. In contrast of the girls’ preferences, Cricket Is chosen by a tenth of all boys. Marital arts, Tennis and basketball are less popular among boys. Then Netball comes in the last position. A significant percentage of boys and girls enjoyed sports not given in the chart.