Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.0 · Cambridge IELTS 12 · 2026-10-10

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 5.0)

The bar graph proivides information about the individuals ate junk food in USA restaurants between 2003 and 2013. the discriub time line.

overall,it can seen clearly, people ate junk food in different years and timeline. once for twice a month people ate highest singnificantly. Second higher junk food in once week. whereas, evry day and somtime consumer ralery ate jjunk food.

First of all, people every day it junk food apprometly 4% in 2003 but after they less 1% in both of years. people eat several time a week stood at 16%. in 2006, it was 20% ate people. then it decreased it. Moreover, in once week people jumed significantly around 30% after they rise then dropped in 2013.

second evidents shou it, once or two moths people highly ate junk food in 2013 before they normally least accounted of 25%.in 2006 people ate fast food in resturant proportion of 30%. However, some time years, they stood at 14% after they both of year stable rise 1% .

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.0

You identify the main categories and recognise that monthly visits were especially common, while daily eating was uncommon. However, the overview is not consistently accurate: “once for twice a month people ate highest” overlooks that this category was highest only in 2013, while once a week led in 2003 and 2006. Several figures and trends are unclear or incorrect. For example, several-times-a-week eating was 17%, 20% and 16%, not simply “stood at 16%” before rising; once-a-week eating fell from 33% in 2006 to 28% in 2013, rather than rising and then dropping. The final category is also not clearly identified. Select the main comparisons and report them precisely to address the chart more fully.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.0

There is an attempt to organise the response into an introduction, an overview and two detail paragraphs, and transitions such as “First of all” and “Moreover” signal that you are adding information. However, the progression is difficult to follow because categories and years are not consistently linked, and some sentences do not express a complete or clear comparison. For instance, “then it decreased it” does not specify what decreased, while “after they both of year stable rise 1%” is hard to interpret. The linking phrases sometimes feel mechanical rather than showing the relationship between data. Group the categories logically, keep each comparison in a clear sentence, and use references such as “this figure” only when the category is unmistakable.

Lexical Resource: Band 4.5

You use some task-related vocabulary, including “proportion,” “decreased,” “dropped” and “accounted,” showing an attempt to describe chart data. However, the range is limited and several word choices or collocations make the meaning difficult to understand. Phrases such as “junk food in USA restaurants,” “ate highest significantly” and “second higher” are not natural ways to describe frequency or proportions. There are also frequent spelling errors, including “proivides,” “discriub,” “singnificantly” and “evidents.” Use the chart’s own terms—“fast-food restaurants,” “once a week” and “once or twice a month”—and practise accurate trend language such as “accounted for,” “peaked at” and “declined to.”

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 4.5

The response attempts both simple and more connected sentences, including a contrast introduced by “whereas” and a sentence beginning “However.” Nevertheless, sentence structures are often incomplete or faulty, which makes several comparisons hard to interpret. Examples include “overall,it can seen clearly” (missing an auxiliary), “people every day it junk food” (unclear subject and verb pattern), and “in 2006 people ate fast food in resturant proportion of 30%” (missing grammatical links and articles). Tense and agreement are also inconsistent, as in “people jumed … after they rise then dropped.” Build sentences around a clear subject and verb, use past tense consistently for the years shown, and check articles, plurals and punctuation.

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