Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.0 · Barron's Writing · 2026-09-26

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 5.0)

dear sir

i live in your building from last month . I am facing problem in your parking lot.

i convey you this that when i come back from job to home i cannot find empty space for my car parking. In building there is no arrangements for parking. People park there vehicles here and there with no sufficient space. i bother this every day . i waste my alot of time to get my car parked. i can't go home early .

so I request you to solve this problem as soon as possible. Say people to park their vehicles in order . so other people can par their vehicles. i really appreciate you for this to solve my problem. whole building suffer from this problem. some days people fight with each other for parking. which is not good. so i request you to solve this problem

thank you .

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.5

The response successfully covers all three bullet points required by the task. The student describes the situation in the apartment building parking lot, explains why it bothers them by mentioning wasted time and the inability to go home early, and suggests that the landlord should intervene by telling residents to park in an orderly fashion. While the ideas are somewhat repetitive toward the end, where the request to solve the problem is reiterated multiple times, the overall communicative goal is fully achieved. The tone is appropriate for a formal letter to a landlord, and the response appropriately covers the prompt requirements without major omissions.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.0

The letter lacks proper paragraphing and has very basic organizational structure, which heavily impacts coherence. The entire body of the letter is clumped together into one continuous block of short, choppy sentences. Cohesive devices are extremely limited and repetitive, relying mostly on basic transition words like 'so' and 'i'. Logical progression is impeded by the disjointed flow of ideas, such as abruptly shifting from parking space issues to arguments between residents. Referencing is occasionally unclear, and the overall arrangement of the text feels mechanical and disconnected, reflecting characteristics typical of Band 5.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

The vocabulary used is very basic and repetitive, frequently reusing simple words and phrases such as 'problem', 'parking space', and 'solve'. There are noticeable lexical errors and awkward collocations, such as 'from last month' instead of 'for the past month', 'in building there is no arrangements' instead of 'there are no parking arrangements', and 'say people to park' instead of 'ask residents to park'. While the meaning is generally understandable despite these errors, the range of vocabulary is strictly limited and inadequate for expressing precise ideas smoothly, aligning with a Band 5 profile.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

The grammatical range is severely restricted, consisting predominantly of simple sentence structures with very few attempts at complex forms. There are frequent grammatical errors throughout the text, including missing articles ('in building', 'from job'), incorrect verb tenses ('i live in your building from last month'), and punctuation issues such as missing capitalisation for the pronoun 'i' and spaces before full stops. Although these errors rarely completely obscure the intended meaning, their high frequency causes noticeable difficulty for the reader and prevents the writing from reaching a higher band level.

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