The chart below shows the average monthly rent for a one-bedroom apartment in five Vietnamese cities between 2015 and 2025. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

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Examiner Notes

• TR“Overall, rent went up in all five cities during this time, and Ho Chi Minh City always had the highest rent while Can Tho always had the lowest.” — Covers the shared trend and both extremes of the ranking, satisfying the basic overview requirement, though in simpler wording than "consistently commanding the highest rents".
• LR“Hanoi's rent was similar, going from VND 5.5 million to VND 12 million.” — The adjective "similar" is used correctly to link Hanoi's figures to Ho Chi Minh City's, but the paragraph relies on the repeated verb "rose"/"grew"/"increased" rather than a wider range of near-synonyms.
• CC“Hai Phong and Can Tho had lower rents than the other three cities, but they also went up.” — The connector "but" links the lower-rent pair back to the general upward trend, giving basic cohesion, though the paragraph structure is a simple list rather than a clearly time- or group-signposted sequence.
• GRA“Can Tho's rent grew from VND 2.5 million, the lowest of all, to VND 5 million by 2025.” — A correctly placed non-restrictive appositive ("the lowest of all") adds detail without a separate clause, though the sentence pattern is repeated with only minor variation across the paragraph.

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Examiner Notes

• TR“Overall, rents increased in every city over the decade, with Ho Chi Minh City consistently the most expensive and Can Tho remaining the cheapest throughout the period.” — An efficient overview naming both extremes of the ranking, functionally equivalent to the 7.5 answer's overview though it does not split the two extremes across two separate sentences for emphasis.
• LR“Da Nang's rent grew at a somewhat slower rate” — A precise qualifying phrase for describing relative pace of change, showing controlled vocabulary, though the answer does not reach for a vivid verb like "commanding" that the 7.5 answer uses.
• GRA“though both still recorded meaningful growth” — A concessive "though" clause links the lower-rent pair back to the overall upward trend within a single sentence, showing reasonable subordination, though simpler than the 7.5 answer's "despite" phrase embedded before the main clause.
• CC“Hai Phong and Can Tho remained considerably cheaper than the other three cities throughout, though both still recorded meaningful growth.” — This topic sentence groups the two lower-rent cities and signals the paragraph's focus, playing a similar role to the 7.5 answer's "Meanwhile" sentence but without an explicit contrastive connector.

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Examiner Notes

• TR“Overall, rents rose across all five cities throughout the period, with Ho Chi Minh City consistently commanding the highest rents.” — States the shared trend and the top-ranked city in one sentence, an efficient overview for a five-category bar chart.
• LR“Ho Chi Minh City consistently commanding the highest rents” — The verb "commanding" is a vivid, idiomatic collocation for "having the highest price," more precise than a generic verb like "having."
• GRA“Can Tho, despite starting at the lowest point of VND 2.5 million in 2015, saw its rental costs exactly double, reaching VND 5 million by 2025” — A concessive "despite" phrase is embedded before the main clause, and "exactly double" is used as an adverb-modified verb complement to add precision and complexity.
• CC“Meanwhile, Hai Phong and Can Tho registered more modest but still significant growth.” — The connector "Meanwhile" cohesively shifts attention from the top three cities to the remaining two, structuring the report logically.
• TR“Da Nang also saw a considerable rise, with rent escalating from VND 4 million to VND 8.5 million by the end of the period.” — Accurately reports the start and end figures for a third city, maintaining consistent, selective detail across the body paragraph.