Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.5 · Barron's Writing · 2026-10-17

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 5.5)

Dear land owner,

I'm thinking to write this application from past few months but due to my hectic office routine i could not make it but now the situation is getting more worse then before so i have to inform you about the problem I am having from past few months

As you know there is a parking area behind my building and whenever I arrived there is no space available for me to park my car there

I think may be due to my late office timmings i couldnot make it but now its seems that someone is mocking us to reach empty parking slot before me

After hectic duty shift whenever this happens to me I'm getting frusterated and park my car far from my building

Kindly on my behalf alot the parkings area according to the appartment numbers so that no one can face this situation

Regards,

Ahad

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.5

You address the main situation, its effect on you, and a possible solution: you explain that spaces are unavailable when you return, that you become frustrated and park far away, and ask for spaces to be allocated by apartment number. These points are relevant, but the explanation is not always clear or fully developed. For example, “someone is mocking us to reach empty parking slot before me” is difficult to interpret, and it is unclear whether the problem is caused by residents using unassigned spaces or simply by your late arrival. The request to allocate parking is useful, but you could make it more specific, such as asking the landlord to assign one space per apartment or introduce permits. A clearer, more complete account would strengthen the letter.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.5

The letter follows a broadly sensible order: you introduce the issue, describe the parking difficulty, explain its effect, and make a request before signing off. However, most of the content is presented as one long paragraph, so the stages of the letter are not clearly separated. Several ideas are also joined in lengthy sentences, particularly the opening, which makes the progression harder to follow. Linking phrases such as “As you know” and “After my shift” help connect points, but some connections are unclear, especially the move from late work hours to the suggestion that someone is mocking you. Use short paragraphs for the problem, its impact, and your proposed solution, and make the relationship between each point explicit.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

You use some vocabulary relevant to the situation, including “parking area,” “available,” “frustrated,” and “allocate,” so the reader can identify the main concern. However, the range is limited and several word choices or spellings make the message less natural or harder to understand. “Land owner” is not the usual form of address here, while “application” does not fit a letter raising a complaint. Phrases such as “hectic office routine” and “someone is mocking us to reach empty parking slot” are awkward or unclear. There are also noticeable spelling errors, including “timmings,” “frusterated,” and “appartment.” Choose more precise, conventional expressions and check spelling to make your meaning consistently clear.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

The response attempts some longer sentence forms, but control is limited and errors occur frequently enough to make parts of the letter difficult to read. For example, the opening combines several ideas without clear sentence boundaries, and “whenever I arrived there is no space” shifts inconsistently between past and present tense. Other problems include “from past few months,” which needs an article and a more suitable preposition, and “whenever this happens to me I'm getting frustrated,” where the tense pattern is not well controlled. Punctuation and capitalisation are also inconsistent. Practise separating ideas into complete sentences, maintaining a consistent tense, and checking articles and prepositions; this will make the message easier to follow.

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