3adb1116...
4ba3503e...
a59fd3fd...
d8291dcc...
233f41db...
35fc3676...
IMAGE
Linking Two Charts
Visual guide to linking two charts.
Click to zoom
Always look for shared categories or dates to link two visuals smoothly in your report.
Student can connect related visuals in a single report without inventing false cause-and-effect relationships.
Explanation of how to handle combined charts.
IELTS Writing Task 1 often presents combined charts—for example, a bar chart next to a pie chart.
The golden rule: Do not write two separate mini-essays. You only have 20 minutes and 150 words. You must connect them into a single, cohesive report with one unified overview.
Visual guide to linking two charts.
Always look for shared categories or dates to link two visuals smoothly in your report.
Practice identifying shared elements between visuals.
Terms
Definitions
Faded example for planning a combined chart report.
You are planning a Task 1 report for a bar chart about global coffee production (2010-2020) and a pie chart about regional coffee consumption (2020). Here is the expert planning process. First, identify the main focus of each chart: Visual 1 shows production over a ten-year period. Visual 2 shows the of consumption across different regions in a single year. Next, find the connection for your overview; the shared pattern is that rising global supply meets concentrated regional . Finally, decide how to organize the body paragraphs. Since the timeframes and data types are completely different, the best grouping is to organize by , dedicating one paragraph to the bar chart and the next to the pie chart.
AI feedback on writing a combined overview.
What is the single most important feature of the first visual?
What is the single most important feature of the second visual?
Combine the two trends into one sentence without stating that one caused the other.