Paraphrase the task prompt accurately without altering the core meaning.
Guidelines for safe paraphrasing.
Many IELTS students lose points in Writing Task 1 because they try too hard to impress the examiner with advanced vocabulary in their first sentence. Think of your introduction like a brief business report: your manager needs exact facts, not creative writing.
Paraphrasing the prompt is required, but if your synonyms distort the facts, your Task Achievement score drops immediately. Clarity is your ultimate goal.
A visual card showing safe vs. dangerous paraphrasing helps cement the boundaries of acceptable vocabulary changes.
Only swap words when you are 100% sure the mathematical and factual meaning remains identical.
Examples of paraphrasing that changes the meaning.
Changing Graph to Table. A graph uses visual lines or bars; a table shows data in rows and columns.
Changing Percentage to Number. A percentage is relative; a number is an absolute count.
Changing People to Households. One household can contain several people, so the meaning changes.
Practice filling in the missing parts of an introduction.
When writing an introduction for IELTS Task 1, you must paraphrase the prompt by identifying the visual type, subject, and time frame. For a prompt showing a line graph about UK coffee consumption in kilograms from 2000 to 2010, you could write: 'The provided illustrates the amount of coffee consumed in the United Kingdom over a ten-year .' The data in this specific example is measured in . For a prompt with a bar chart comparing male and female graduates in three countries in 2015, your introduction should state: 'The given compares the proportion of graduates by gender across three nations.' In this case, the data is recorded for the 2015. Finally, if you receive two pie charts showing migration reasons to Australia in 1990 and 2020, you would write: 'The two detail the primary reasons for migration to Australia in two distinct years.'
AI feedback on student paraphrasing.
Paste or type a Task 1 prompt here.
Write your paraphrased introduction.
Did you preserve the exact subject, unit, chart type, and time period? Explain.