Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.0 · Recent IELTS Exams (Canada & India) · 2026-11-10

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

The pie charts below show how working adults in a particular country spent their time in 1958 and 2008.

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

* Note: these aren’t the original diagrams given in the test, they were recreated for the purpose of demonstration.

Student answer (Band 5.0)

The pie charts compares the percentages of the day spent by working adults on six activities in 1958 and 2008.

Overall, spending time on work accounted for the highest proportion in both years, meanwhile, the percentages for sleeping, going out with friends or family and relaxing at home showed a slight decline over time. playing sports and travelling to work increased .

Looking at details, working adults spend most time at work, it accounted for the dominant activity at 42 percente in 2008 and 33 perc in 1958, while going out with friends and family, sleeping declined from 19 to 6 , 32 to 25 respectively.

by contrast, the proporations of relaxing at home and travelling to work went up from 8 to 30 and 2 to 7

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.0

You identify the main activity correctly: work takes the largest share in both years, rising from 33% to 42%, and you report the declines in sleeping and socialising. However, the overview is partly inaccurate: relaxing at home did not decline; it increased from 8% to 13%. The final comparison also gives 30% for relaxing at home, whereas the chart shows 13%. Playing sports appears only in 2008, at 7%, but is not reported in the details. The response therefore covers some key features but leaves the account incomplete and includes a significant data error. It is also 22 words below the required minimum. Add accurate comparisons and a fuller overview to address the task more completely.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.5

There is a basic structure, with an introduction, an overview and a details paragraph, and expressions such as “Overall” and “by contrast” show an attempt to guide the reader. However, progression is limited: the details move from work to socialising and sleeping, then to two other activities without a clear, consistent grouping. Some linking is inaccurate or awkward, particularly “meanwhile” in the overview, where a contrast or simple conjunction would be clearer. The final sentence is also incomplete in its construction, making the comparison harder to follow. Organise the details into clear comparisons—for example, activities that increased and those that decreased—and use linking phrases only where their relationship is precise.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

The response uses relevant task vocabulary, including “percentages,” “dominant activity,” “declined” and “went up,” so the main comparisons are generally understandable. However, the range is limited and some choices are inaccurate or imprecise. “Spending time on work” and “spend most time at work” are awkward formulations, while “slight decline” does not fit the increase in relaxing at home. There are also noticeable spelling errors, including “percente” and “proporations,” and inconsistent forms such as “33 perc.” Use standard percentage language consistently and choose verbs that match the data. A wider set of accurate terms such as “accounted for,” “rose,” “fell” and “share” would make the report clearer and more appropriate.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempt some complex sentences, including a comparison using “while” and a contrast introduced by “by contrast,” but control is uneven and the range remains limited. The opening has a subject–verb agreement error: “The pie charts compares” should be “The pie charts compare.” In the overview, “meanwhile” is incorrectly joined to the preceding clause with a comma, and “playing sports and travelling to work increased” is not properly punctuated as a sentence. The details also contain faulty sentence boundaries, such as “working adults spend most time at work, it accounted for…,” and the final line lacks a complete grammatical structure. Practise forming complete sentences with accurate agreement, tense and punctuation before adding more complex comparisons.

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