Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.5 · Barron's Writing · 2026-10-24

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 Mr joshi,

I am your neibhour. My flat number is 241.I lived in the flat directly blow yours. I am writing this letter to briefly mention a noise concern .

I am a working person. i am doing a job in indian scientist department. I have lot of stress when i am comning to my flat.but when i am going to sleep when every day a loud noise come out from your flat and it disturb me lot and i don't sleep its effects on my health as well as work also. I am not able to do my work properly.

I will suggest you to please do party with friends another place if you do the party i. that place so please make speaker sound slow.and please dont jumped on the floor it also make me disturbed .when you some one dance on the floor at the upstairs the volume come out in down stairs.

I hope you know my fellings and you will not do this again.

Thank you

your sincerely

Alok Partap Singh

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0

The letter addresses all three required points: you identify the noise from the upstairs flat, explain that it affects your sleep, health and work, and suggest reducing speaker volume or holding parties elsewhere. The purpose is clear and the details about dancing and loud noise make the complaint relevant. Some ideas, however, are less fully developed than others. For example, the effect on your work is stated but not illustrated, and the proposed solutions could be expressed more clearly and tactfully. The closing, “you will not do this again,” sounds rather forceful for a neighbourly request. Explain the impact briefly and frame the suggestions as a polite request to make the letter more effective.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0

The response has a coherent overall arrangement: it opens with the reason for writing, then describes the impact, offers solutions, and closes with a hope for improvement. Paragraphing helps distinguish these stages. Some connections between ideas are less clear, particularly in the long middle paragraph, where the sequence from coming home to sleeping and then work is difficult to follow. The solution paragraph also combines several requests in one run-on sequence, making the relationship between parties, speaker volume and dancing less easy to track. Use clearer sentence boundaries and linking phrases such as “In particular” or “As a result” to show how each point relates to the next. The sign-off could also follow a more conventional letter format.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

You use enough vocabulary to communicate the main complaint, including “loud noise,” “stress,” “disturb,” and “speaker sound.” However, the range is limited and several word choices or spellings make the message less natural, such as “noise concern,” “the volume come out,” and “my fellings.” Some phrases are repeated, especially “disturb,” and “do party” is not an idiomatic expression. Aim for more precise collocations suited to a polite complaint, while keeping the language straightforward. For instance, describe the noise as “disrupting my sleep” and ask your neighbour to “keep the music at a lower volume.” These changes would make the letter clearer and more natural.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempt both simple and longer sentences, and the reader can generally understand the main message. Some grammatical errors remain, particularly in verb forms, sentence construction and punctuation. For example, “I lived in the flat directly blow yours” should use a present-tense form, while “when every day a loud noise come out” has an unclear structure and subject–verb agreement problem. The sentence beginning “I have lot of stress” also joins several ideas without clear boundaries, and “please dont jumped” uses an incorrect verb form. Practise building accurate sentences with one main idea each, then combine them using clauses such as “because” or “which.” Check capitalisation and punctuation, too, so the longer sentences remain easy to follow.

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