The chart below illustrates the percentage of the population who accessed the internet via smartphone in three different Vietnamese regions between 2013 and 2023. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

Collocations

Examiner Notes

• TR“Overall, the percentage went up in all three places, and Ho Chi Minh City always had the highest number while Đắk Lắk always had the lowest.” — Covers the shared trend and the ranking, meeting the basic overview requirement, though in plainer wording than "consistently recording the highest percentages".
• LR“which is almost everyone” — This phrase is a simple, everyday paraphrase for a figure near 100%, functional but far less precise than a collocation like "near-saturation point".
• CC“Although both places grew quickly, they never became as high as Ho Chi Minh City during the whole period.” — The concessive "Although" links the two supporting regions back to the leading region, but the paragraph otherwise relies on repeated "and"/"but" connectors rather than varied linking devices.
• GRA“Đồng Tháp and Đắk Lắk started much lower, at 14% and 9%, but they also grew a lot.” — Grammatically accurate but structurally simple — a short coordinate clause rather than the embedded subordinate clauses used at higher bands.

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Examiner Notes

• TR“Overall, all three regions experienced substantial growth in smartphone internet access over the period, with Ho Chi Minh City consistently ahead of the other two and Đắk Lắk remaining behind throughout.” — A well-formed two-part overview naming both the shared trend and the ranking, close in function to the 7.5 overview but using slightly less varied vocabulary ("ahead of"/"behind" rather than "recording the highest"/"remaining the lowest").
• LR“close to full coverage” — A reasonable near-100% paraphrase, though less idiomatic and precise than the 7.5 answer's "near-saturation point".
• GRA“though both also expanded rapidly over the following years” — A concessive "though" clause links two ideas within one sentence, showing controlled subordination, though less densely packed than the embedded "while" clause in the 7.5 answer.
• CC“By 2017, Đồng Tháp's figure had climbed to 38%, compared with 28% in Đắk Lắk, and this gap between the two regions remained fairly steady afterwards.” — Introduces a specific comparison point and links forward to the final paragraph's closing figures, giving reasonable cohesion, though the paragraph break is less sharply signposted than the 7.5 answer's dedicated "latter half" topic sentence.

Collocations

Examiner Notes

• TR“Overall, smartphone internet access saw a significant increase across all three regions throughout the period, with Ho Chi Minh City consistently recording the highest percentages and Đắk Lắk remaining the lowest.” — A two-part overview that identifies both the shared trend and the ranking between regions, exactly what a Task 1 summary requires.
• LR“a near-saturation point of 96%” — The collocation "near-saturation point" is a precise, idiomatic way to describe a figure approaching 100% without simply repeating the number.
• GRA“Đồng Tháp and Đắk Lắk, while starting much lower at 14% and 9% respectively, also experienced substantial growth.” — A participial "while" clause is embedded mid-sentence to compress two ideas — starting point and growth — into one complex structure.
• CC“The latter half of the period saw continued expansion for both Đồng Tháp and Đắk Lắk.” — This topic sentence signals a clear time-based paragraph boundary, cohesively dividing the report into two halves of the timeframe.
• TR“Đắk Lắk's proportion of smartphone internet users reached 55% in 2021, finishing at 68% a decade after the initial measurement” — Closes the data report by tying the final figure back to the starting year, reinforcing accurate, selective coverage of the full timeframe.