Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.0 · Barron's Writing · 2026-09-18

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 5.0)

Dear Mr. Verma,

I hope you doing well and I am writing this letter for my parking problem in building back parking lot. When I come home from work, then I face the problem due to my car park, because I cannot find the empty space in the parking.

I can face the difficulty, where I amparked my car, because parking lot is very small and all people who lived in these apartments face the sme difficulties and sometimes some vehicles are damaged, while trying to parking the car and i have to pay the repair fees of vehicles.

I suggest to you please purchase some land and reconstruct the car parking of this building with different session of car, bikes and bicycles in the parking lot, then this problem can be solve.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Yours faithfully

Yashandeep Kaur

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response — Band 5.5

The student covers all three bullet points required in the prompt by describing the parking situation, explaining why it is a problem, and suggesting a practical solution for the landlord. The tone is appropriate for a formal letter to a landlord. However, the response falls slightly short of the minimum 150-word requirement, containing only 144 words. This under-length impacts the full development of ideas, leading to a Band 5.5 score. To improve, the student should expand slightly on each point to comfortably exceed the word count and provide richer details regarding the impact of the parking shortage.

Coherence and Cohesion — Band 5.0

The letter is organised into clear paragraphs representing an introduction, body, and conclusion with a sign-off. However, logical progression is occasionally hindered by awkward phrasing and mechanical cohesion, such as 'When I come home from work, then I face the problem...'. Paragraphing is used, but the second paragraph groups multiple distinct ideas together rather than effectively separating them. Referencing is sometimes unclear, for instance in 'where I amparked my car'. Cohesion is minimally adequate, but needs more flexible and natural cohesive devices to achieve a higher band score.

Lexical Resource — Band 5.0

The student demonstrates a limited but minimally adequate vocabulary range suitable for describing everyday housing issues, using terms like 'parking lot', 'apartment building', and 'repair fees'. However, there are noticeable word choice and collocation errors, such as 'parking problem in building back parking lot' instead of 'at the back of the building', and 'different session of car' instead of 'sections'. Spelling errors like 'amparked' and 'sme' also occur. These inaccuracies cause some difficulty for the reader and reflect a Band 5.0 level.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy — Band 5.0

The student attempts a mix of simple and complex sentence structures, but control is inconsistent. There are frequent grammatical errors, such as tense and auxiliary verb mistakes in 'I hope you doing well' and 'I can face the difficulty'. Other issues include run-on sentences joined by conjunctions ('...because parking lot is very small and all people who lived... and sometimes... and i have to...'). These errors cause occasional difficulty for the reader, fitting the descriptors for Band 5.0.

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