Band 4.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 4.0 · Cambridge IELTS 12 · 2026-09-15

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

The chart below shows how frequently people in the USA ate in fast food restaurants between 2003 and 2013.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

 

Student answer (Band 4.0)

Nowadays, every people to eat fast food one time in a whole day. Food is nessaccery for all living organisms for living. Peoples don't eat food for prepare home also went to the restaurant eat them fast food that are not better from our health.

Now we can discuss about frequency of eating at fast food restaurants among people in the USA between 2003 to 2013.Much of the people eat food once a week and once or twice a month more than peoples ate food more than 30% in 2003 to 2013.

Every day less than 5% people eat fast food. Less then 20% several time ina week and les then 35% once a week and once or twice time in a month in different year such as 2003, 2006 and 2013.

Much of the people eat fast food less then 15% in USA. Never people eat food in restaurants or hotel was less then 5% in USA.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response — Band 4.0

The response attempts to address the prompt by discussing the frequency of eating fast food in the USA between 2003 and 2013, but the execution falls well short of effective task completion. There is no clear overview presented, and the main features—such as 'once a week' being the most popular category overall—are poorly articulated. Furthermore, the introduction includes irrelevant personal commentary on health and food preparation ('Food is nessaccery for all living organisms for living') rather than summarising the visual data. While some specific categories like 'every day' and 'never' are mentioned, the lack of structured reporting and accurate data comparison keeps this performance at a Band 4.0 level according to the task achievement descriptors.

Coherence and Cohesion — Band 4.0

The organisation of the essay is extremely fragmented. Paragraphing is haphazard, consisting of short, disconnected sentences that fail to establish a logical progression of ideas. Cohesive devices are either missing or misused, making it difficult for the reader to follow the flow of information. For instance, transitional phrases like 'Now we can discuss about' are overly conversational and inappropriate for an Academic Task 1 response. Referencing between sentences is weak, resulting in disjointed statements that do not build upon one another coherently. This corresponds closely to the Band 4 descriptors for coherence and cohesion.

Lexical Resource — Band 4.0

The vocabulary range is very basic and repetitive. The student relies heavily on simple words and phrases, and there are numerous severe spelling and word-choice errors, such as 'nessaccery' instead of 'necessary', 'Peoples' instead of 'people', and 'hotel' used incorrectly to describe fast food outlets. Attempts to use less common vocabulary are unsuccessful due to poor collocation and morphological control (e.g., 'every people to eat fast food one time'). These pervasive lexical inadequacies and frequent errors strain the reader and limit the response to a Band 4.0.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy — Band 4.0

Grammatical control is weak throughout the response. The student attempts a mix of simple and complex sentence structures, but these attempts are almost uniformly faulty, resulting in severe grammatical errors that frequently obscure the meaning (e.g., 'Peoples don't eat food for prepare home also went to the restaurant eat them fast food that are not better from our health'). Subject-verb agreement errors, incorrect prepositions, and tense confusions are present in nearly every sentence. Because errors are frequent and constantly impede communication, the performance aligns with Band 4.0.

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