Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.5 · Cambridge IELTS 20 · 2026-11-14

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

The plans below show the site of a farm in 1950 and the same site today.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.



 

Student answer (Band 5.5)

The map illustrate the changes that have taken place at Beechwood Farm between 1950 and present day.

Overall, the farm has undergone considerable development, particularly terms of tourisum and agriculture. In addition, the agriculture areas have remained unchange while, tourisum became widely change over here, several features such as, solar panels, parking, Holiday cottages and camping field.

On the one hand, the Beechwood farm maintain only agriculture areas such as, fruit trees, soft fruits along with vegetables area and especially sheep in 1950. Moreover, there were barn section on the bottom of right corner along with farmhouse and chickens in 1950. From the behind side the river raminded unchange.

Today, agriculture things has been remained same to the previous or minor development. In addition, Solar panels and parking has been created in sheep. However, developed the track into main road which connects tourist service and establish camping areas nearest parking area. Moreover, holiday cottages has been developed in right side for tourisum.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0

You identify the broad change from a mainly agricultural farm to a site with tourism facilities, and you note that the river and several agricultural areas remain. These are relevant main features. However, some comparisons are unclear or inaccurate: the agricultural areas are described as having “remained unchange,” although the map shows the sheep area replaced by camping and solar panels, and the barn is not in the “bottom of right corner” in 1950. The overview also lists new facilities without clearly explaining the overall pattern of change. To strengthen the response, describe the retained fruit, soft-fruit and vegetable plots separately from the converted sheep area, and report the new farm shop and additional parking as well as the cottages and camping field. Some details are therefore less fully addressed than others.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0

The response has a recognisable structure: an introduction, an overview and two paragraphs comparing the earlier and current layouts. This gives the reader a basic progression through the task. However, the organisation within paragraphs is sometimes difficult to follow. For example, “From the behind side the river…” does not clearly connect to the preceding description, and the final paragraph moves from agriculture to solar panels, roads, camping and cottages without a clear spatial sequence. Linking phrases such as “On the one hand” and “Moreover” are used, but some feel mechanical or do not show the relationship between ideas precisely. Grouping features by location or by whether they were retained, removed or added would make the comparisons easier to follow. Clearer referencing would also help readers understand which areas “same” and “here” refer to.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

You use some relevant vocabulary for describing maps, including “agriculture,” “parking,” “solar panels,” “camping field” and “holiday cottages.” This gives you enough topic-related language to communicate the main idea. However, several word choices, collocations and spelling errors make parts of the description unclear or unnatural. Examples include “tourisum,” “widely change,” “agriculture things,” and “from the behind side.” “Developed” is also repeated where more precise verbs such as “added,” “converted” or “replaced” would better describe the changes. Aim to use accurate map vocabulary and check spelling, while varying verbs for changes and locations. More precise wording would help distinguish facilities that were newly introduced from agricultural features that remained.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempt both simple and more complex sentence forms, and the response is generally understandable. However, errors in agreement, verb forms, articles and sentence construction occur in several places. For instance, “The map illustrate” needs subject–verb agreement, while “the farm has undergone… particularly terms” is missing a preposition. In “agriculture areas have remained unchange,” the verb phrase and adjective form are not correctly constructed; “Solar panels and parking has been created” also has a plural subject with a singular verb. The final paragraph includes the fragment “However, developed the track…” and would need a clear subject and finite verb. Practise checking each sentence for a subject, a correctly formed verb and complete clauses, especially when using passive constructions.

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