Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.5 · Recent IELTS Exams (Canada & India) · 2026-09-21

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

You recently helped your company organise an event at a hotel. Write a letter to the hotel manager. In your letter:

– Provide details about the event
– Mention what you particularly liked about the hotel
– Suggest areas for improvement.

You do NOT need to write any addresses.

Begin your letter as follows:
Dear Sir / Madam,

Student answer (Band 5.5)

Dear sir,

I am Khushbu Chawda. I am the manager of the Sunpharma company. I would like to organize an event in your hotel ,and for that reason I want to ask few questions.

First, I want to give some details regarding a gathering. Additionally, all the members are professional and reputable. They are going to doscuss the severe disease COVID 19 and its solutions.

Second, I choose your place because of your ambience, staff service and polite nature to customers.

Third, most significant, you have to improve the kitchen secrion. Sometimes, dishes are not good in the taste and drinks, also. Additionally, you have to work on the communications' skills because your some members do not know foreign language such as English and our guests are coming from London.

Otherwise all good to go. I would like to do this gathering at your hotel.

Thank you.

Yours fatithfullu,

khushbu

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response — Band 5.5

The response covers all three bullet points required by the task: it provides some details about the event, mentions what was liked about the hotel, and suggests areas for improvement. However, there is a slight contradiction or confusion in the opening and closing lines where the writer states 'I would like to organize an event' instead of recounting a past event as requested by the prompt ('You recently helped your company organise an event'). The ideas are generally relevant, but the development is somewhat limited and the tone fluctuates. Because the student addresses all parts of the prompt, the response achieves a Band 5.5, balancing the fulfilment of the bullet points with the slight misinterpretation of the task's timeframe.

Coherence and Cohesion — Band 6.0

The letter uses basic sequencing devices such as 'First', 'Second', and 'Third' to organise the points, which makes the structure clear to the reader. Paragraphing is attempted, though the paragraphs are very short and sometimes consist of only one or two sentences. Cohesive devices are used, but referencing is occasionally imprecise, such as in the phrase 'regarding a gathering' where the article 'a' is less appropriate than 'the' since it refers back to the event. Overall, the arrangement provides a coherent flow, but the mechanical nature of the transitions places it firmly in the Band 6 category.

Lexical Resource — Band 5.5

The student uses an adequate range of vocabulary for the task, including terms like 'professional', 'reputable', 'ambience', and 'severe disease'. However, there are noticeable errors in word choice and collocation, such as 'kitchen secrion' (section), 'good in the taste', and 'fatithfullu' (faithfully) in the sign-off. Less common vocabulary is attempted, but inaccuracies in spelling and phrasing cause some minor distractions. These lexical limitations align with the Band 5.5 descriptors, where the vocabulary is minimally adequate but features persistent errors.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy — Band 5.0

The writer attempts a mix of simple and complex sentence structures, such as 'Additionally, all the members are professional and reputable' and 'They are going to doscuss...'. However, there are frequent grammatical and punctuation errors throughout the text, including tense inconsistencies ('I would like to organize' versus the prompt's past-tense requirement), missing articles ('ask few questions'), and awkward phrasing ('your some members do not know'). While communication is not severely impeded, the high frequency of errors prevents the response from reaching a higher band. This performance is typical of Band 5.0.

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