Band 4.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 4.0 · Cambridge IELTS 12 · 2026-10-13

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)

The graph illustrates the proportion of eating at fast food restaurants among people in the USA in specific years 2003, 2006 and 2013.

Overall, once a week of fast eating food had a highest frequence individual of the people. Lowest frequence is never which are describe in a table through out the years.

Firstly menton the three catagerious of the faster food that mention every day it should be

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 3.0

The response identifies the chart’s subject and years, and its overview correctly notes that weekly eating was a prominent frequency while “Never” was among the least common. However, the overview is imprecise: once a week was not the highest category in every year, since monthly eating led in 2013. The response gives no figures or meaningful comparisons across the three years, and the unfinished sentence beginning “Firstly menton…” does not report any chart information. It is also substantially below the required 150 words. To address the task more fully, describe the main shifts—for example, weekly eating peaked in 2006 and fell by 2013, while monthly eating became the most common category in 2013—and support these points with approximate percentages.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 4.0

There is a basic attempt to organise the response with an opening, an overview paragraph, and the transition “Firstly.” This gives the reader some indication of the intended structure. However, the progression stops abruptly: the final sentence is incomplete, and no details follow the overview. The link between the overview statements is also unclear, particularly in “Lowest frequence is never which are describe in a table through out the years.” Use separate, complete paragraphs for the introduction, overview, and selected comparisons, and connect them with clear references such as “By contrast” or “In 2013.” Completing each point before moving on would make the information easier to follow.

Lexical Resource: Band 4.5

The response uses a few relevant terms, including “proportion,” “graph,” and “years,” so the topic is recognisable. However, vocabulary is very limited and several choices or forms make the meaning unclear: “frequence” is not the correct noun, “faster food” is an inaccurate phrase, and “catagerious” is misspelled. “Once a week of fast eating food” is also an awkward way to describe a chart category. Use the chart’s precise labels—“frequency of eating at fast-food restaurants,” “once a week,” and “once or twice a month”—and vary these with accurate terms such as “share” or “percentage.” Careful spelling and natural collocations would improve clarity.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 4.5

The response attempts simple statements and an overview, but grammatical control is inconsistent and the range of sentence structures is very limited. For example, “Overall, once a week of fast eating food had a highest frequence individual of the people” lacks a clear grammatical relationship between the category and the people. In “Lowest frequence is never which are describe,” the clause has problems with articles, agreement, and verb form. The final sentence, “Firstly menton the three catagerious … it should be,” is incomplete, so its intended meaning cannot be established. Practise complete subject–verb sentences, accurate articles and agreement, and past-tense reporting, such as “The proportion eating weekly was highest in 2006.”

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