Band 4.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 4.0 · Barron's Writing · 2026-08-26

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

You live in a small apartment building with a parking lot in back, and you often cannot find an empty parking space when you get home from work.

Write a letter to your landlord. In your letter
• describe the situation.
• explain why it bothers you.
• suggest something the landlord could do to solve the problem.

You do NOT need to write any addresses.

Begin your letter as follows:

Dear ____

Student answer (Band 4.0)

Dear Sir or Madam,

I am writhing this letter to give a positive feedback about your cooking lessons.

I completed a small period of cooking corse from your institute last year. I learnt so many culinary skills, which makes me a very good cook. Specially I become expert in cooking different kinds of curries. I really enjoyed extra evening classes, as these inspired me to get more passioned about cooking.

As I got lessons about so many different county's food, be it Chines, Mexican, Indian, South Indian, I already made many of them after the course. Apart from these, I tried to make a vanilla cake on my mother's birthday, which was delicious.

Your institute already doing well but I would love to learn about the seafood cooking as well. I request you to start seafood cooking corse too.

I hope you will consider my suggestion.

Your regards,

Kamaljeet Kaur

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response — Band 1.0

The response is completely off-topic. The prompt explicitly asks for a letter to a landlord regarding a parking issue in an apartment building. Instead, the student has written a letter providing feedback about cooking lessons. Because the response fails to address any of the bullet points (describing the parking situation, explaining the impact, or suggesting a solution), it does not fulfill the requirements of the task. In an official IELTS examination, this would be treated as a memorized or irrelevant response, resulting in a very low score for Task Achievement as the prompt was ignored entirely.

Coherence and Cohesion — Band 5.0

While the letter follows a standard structure with an opening, body paragraphs, and a closing, the content is irrelevant to the prompt. The progression of ideas is logical within the context of the cooking course, but because the task itself is not addressed, the coherence is undermined by the lack of relevance. Paragraphing is used, but the cohesive devices (e.g., 'Apart from these', 'As I got lessons') serve to connect ideas about cooking rather than the required topic of parking. The overall organization is clear, but it does not serve the purpose of the assigned task.

Lexical Resource — Band 5.0

The vocabulary is adequate for describing a cooking experience, but it is limited in range and contains several spelling errors, such as 'writhing' (writing), 'corse' (course), 'Chines' (Chinese), and 'passioned' (passionate). There is also a misuse of 'Specially' where 'Especially' was intended. While the student can communicate basic ideas about their experience, the lexical range is insufficient for higher bands, and the errors in spelling and word choice are noticeable. The vocabulary is not relevant to the context of a formal letter to a landlord.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy — Band 5.0

The student uses a mix of simple and some complex sentence structures, but there are frequent grammatical errors. Examples include 'I am writhing this letter to give a positive feedback' (should be 'some positive feedback'), 'I become expert' (should be 'I became an expert'), and 'Your institute already doing well' (missing auxiliary verb 'is'). Punctuation is generally acceptable, but the grammatical control is inconsistent. The errors do not always impede communication, but they are frequent enough to suggest a lack of control over basic sentence construction and verb tenses.

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