The table below shows the percentage of residents in three Vietnamese cities — Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, and Da Nang — who primarily used different modes of transport to commute in 2005 and 2025. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

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Examiner Notes

• TR“The metro was a completely new option that appeared in two of the three cities by 2025.” — Picks out the single most notable feature, the same strategy as the 7.5 answer, but with simpler wording ("completely new option") than the 7.5 answer's "emergence... remained entirely absent".
• LR“it became less popular over time” — Correct but generic phrasing for a gradual decline, lacking the precision of the 7.5 answer's verb "eased".
• GRA“By 2025, these figures had fallen to 58%, 52% and 60%, but motorbikes were still used by more than half of the people in every city.” — A past-perfect clause plus a coordinated "but" clause is correct, but a more basic link than the 7.5 answer's concessive "although" clause.
• CC“Bus and car use both grew in all three cities, while bicycle use fell everywhere, dropping from 14% to 7% in Hanoi and from 14% to 8% in Da Nang.” — A single contrastive "while" clause covers multiple trends, functional cohesion, but reports fewer individual per-city figures than the fuller 7.5 paragraph.

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Examiner Notes

• TR“The most notable change was the appearance of the metro, introduced in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City by 2025 but never in Da Nang.” — Selects the single most noteworthy feature, matching the 7.5 answer's strategy, though phrased slightly less elaborately than "emergence... remained entirely absent".
• LR“its popularity declined somewhat as car and metro use grew” — A moderately precise verb choice ("declined somewhat"), a step up from the 6.5 band's generic phrasing but not as understated and precise as the 7.5 answer's "eased".
• GRA“Metro use, meanwhile, grew from nothing, reaching 9% in Hanoi and 7% in Ho Chi Minh City by 2025, while Da Nang remained without a metro system throughout.” — Combines a present participial result clause with a contrastive "while" clause, solid complexity though not as controlled as the 7.5 answer's perfect participial "having not existed" construction.
• CC“By 2025, these figures had dropped to 58%, 52% and 60% respectively, though motorbikes still accounted for more than half of all trips in each city.” — A concessive "though" clause qualifies the preceding decline, functionally similar to the 7.5 answer's "although" but slightly less tightly integrated with the surrounding sentences.

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Examiner Notes

• TR“The most striking development was the emergence of the metro, which appeared in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City by 2025 but remained entirely absent in Da Nang throughout.” — Selects the single most noteworthy feature of the table (metro's emergence) rather than trying to summarise every cell of data.
• LR“its dominance eased somewhat as car and metro use expanded” — The verb "eased" is a precise, understated way to describe a gradual decline in share, avoiding the overused word "decreased."
• GRA“having not existed in any city in 2005, it reached 9% of commuters in Hanoi and 7% in Ho Chi Minh City by 2025” — A perfect participial clause ("having not existed") establishes a prior state before the main clause reports the later figures, showing strong tense control.
• CC“By 2025, these figures had fallen to 58%, 52%, and 60% respectively, although motorbikes still accounted for the majority of commuting trips in each city.” — The concessive "although" clause cohesively qualifies the decline just reported, preventing the reader from over-interpreting the fall in share.
• TR“Bicycle use, by contrast, declined steadily across the board, falling from 14% to 7% in Hanoi, 9% to 4% in Ho Chi Minh City, and 14% to 8% in Da Nang.” — Efficiently reports all three cities' bicycle figures in one sentence, keeping the final body paragraph proportionate to the others.