We deeply appreciate P.D. for kindly sharing the Writing tasks from a recent IELTS test held in Australia:
Writing test
Writing task 1 (a report)
The graph below shows the unemployment levels in Ireland and the number of people leaving the country between 1988 and 2008.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
* Note: this isn’t the actual graph given in the test, it was recreated for the purpose of demonstration.


Writing task 2 (an essay)
Some people believe that educating children at home provides more benefits than sending them to school. Do the advantages of home-schooling outweigh the disadvantages?