Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.5 · Barron's Writing · 2026-11-09

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

You live in a small apartment building. You are frequently bothered by noise from your upstairs neighbour's apartment.

Write a letter to your neighbour. In your letter
• describe the situation.
• explain why it is a problem for you.
• suggest a solution.

You do NOT need to write any addresses.

Begin your letter as follows:

Dear _________,

Student answer (Band 5.5)

Dear Jay,

I am writing this letter to express my anger in reference to your loud music voice which is disturbing me and my family everyday.

I am Meet, your neighbour, living downstairs of your house. I know very well that you study in the University and want some fun activities in this time.You can do this things in beyond your limit. I and my sister has exam in nextweek. Because of your terrible music sound, we cannot concentrate in our studies.

My mother has health desease and she try to sleep early at night but after few hours she waked-up from her sleep because of your late-night pop music.

I suggest to you that please keep your sound volume low as there are other people who are also living in our apartment. You can install voice proof glasses in your house as these protects sounds coming from your house to outside. If you do nothing in this matter, I will take this matter to our apartment owner and this costs you extra more.

Awaiting your positive reply,

Meet

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0

The letter addresses all three required points: it describes the repeated loud music, explains its effects on your studies and your mother’s sleep, and proposes lowering the volume or improving sound insulation. These details make the complaint relevant and give the reader a clear reason to act. The request is understandable, but the proposed insulation is not expressed clearly, and the warning about contacting the apartment owner and imposing extra costs makes the tone more confrontational than necessary. Some ideas, such as the effect on your sister and the practical solution, could be developed more clearly. A more specific, courteous request—for example, asking that music be kept low late at night—would make the purpose more effective.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.5

The information follows a generally sensible order: you introduce the complaint, explain how it affects your family, and then suggest what your neighbour should do. The paragraph breaks help distinguish these stages, and phrases such as “Because of” and “I suggest” signal relationships between ideas. This gives the letter a coherent overall arrangement. However, some transitions are abrupt, particularly the move from your neighbour’s university studies to the request, and the final warning shifts the tone suddenly. The reference in “this costs you extra more” is also unclear. To make the progression smoother, connect the neighbour’s activities to the specific request and end with a polite, direct closing.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

You use enough topic-related vocabulary to communicate the main complaint, including “loud music,” “concentrate,” “late-night,” and “volume.” There are also attempts to use more specific expressions, such as “health disease” and “voice proof glasses,” but these are inaccurate or unnatural and make parts of the message harder to understand. Spelling and word-choice problems such as “everyday” for “every day,” “waked-up,” and “extra more” are noticeable. The vocabulary is therefore limited in precision, even though the overall situation remains clear. Focus on common, accurate collocations for noise complaints, such as “soundproofing” and “keep the music down,” rather than attempting phrases whose meaning is uncertain.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

The letter includes simple statements and some attempts to link ideas, for example, “Because of your terrible music sound, we cannot concentrate in our studies.” The reader can generally follow the message, but the range of sentence structures is limited and errors occur often enough to affect clarity. Examples include “I and my sister has,” “she try to sleep,” and “she waked-up,” where agreement or verb forms are incorrect. There are also problems with articles and sentence boundaries, as in “in this time.You can.” Practise forming accurate clauses with correct subject–verb agreement and past or present forms, and check punctuation between sentences. More reliable control of these basics would make your requests easier to read.

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