Band 4.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer
Overall Band Score: 4.5 · Cambridge IELTS 20 · 2026-09-26
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 4.5)
The plans illustrates the site of a estate in 1950 to the same ranch nowadays.
Overall, the site of notherneast which are blank space in 1950 but now the place become to residential areas. Moreover, in 1980 barn is located to east site replace today from holiday cottages
In 1950, the northern site is empty space but nowadays this site transformed into parking, camping and solar panels. On the other hand, barn are replace holidays cotages in the east site. whereas, in 1980 farmhouse and chickens remained same today and located in the southerneast.
Today, barn are convert into the south site and river are still same in both period. Furthermore, the road is located in northernwest and no changes in 1950 and today. the road is through up the river. Nowadays, parking is available in 2 sites north and east, before that in 1980 parking is not available in any sites of period.
AI examiner evaluation
| Criterion | Band |
|---|---|
| Task Achievement / Task Response | 4.5 |
| Coherence and Cohesion | 4.0 |
| Lexical Resource | 4.5 |
| Grammatical Range and Accuracy | 4.0 |
| Overall | 4.5 |
Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 4.5
The response attempts to describe the changes shown in the maps of Beechwood Farm between 1950 and today. However, the task achievement is severely limited. The writer mentions some features such as the barn, holiday cottages, parking, and camping, but includes numerous inaccurate details and temporal confusions (referencing 1980, which does not appear on the source plans). While an overview is attempted, it is confused and lacks clarity. Furthermore, several key features are misreported or misplaced. Because the information presented is largely inaccurate when compared to the visual data, the response falls into the lower-middle band.
Coherence and Cohesion: Band 4.0
The organisation of the text is very weak. The writing is broken into short, disconnected paragraphs and sentences that fail to establish a clear logical progression. Cohesive devices are used awkwardly or incorrectly, such as 'On the other hand', 'whereas', and 'Furthermore', which do not fit the logical relationships between the ideas. Referencing is frequently unclear, making it difficult for the reader to follow which areas of the map are being discussed. Overall arrangement lacks coherence.
Lexical Resource: Band 4.5
The vocabulary used is very basic and repetitive, with frequent word choice errors and unnatural collocations (e.g., 'notherneast', 'northernwest', 'the place become to residential areas'). The writer attempts some topic-specific vocabulary such as 'barn', 'holiday cottages', 'parking', and 'solar panels', but inaccurate lexical control and poor spelling significantly hinder communication and precision.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 4.0
Grammatical control is weak throughout the response. There are frequent, intrusive errors in tense usage, subject-verb agreement, and sentence structure (e.g., 'The plans illustrates', 'barn are replace holidays cotages', 'river are still same in both period'). Simple sentences often contain errors, and attempts at more complex structures result in non-standard or incomprehensible phrases. Punctuation and capitalization are also erratic.
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