Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.0 · Cambridge IELTS 20 · 2026-10-25

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

The charts below give information about a public library in a town called Little Chalfont.

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

 

Student answer (Band 5.0)

The charts below depicts information about a public library in a town called Little Chalfont.The pie chart below gives an information about the age group of members of the library.We can see that the adults are the majority members of the library by 51 percent.After adults,chrildren are the second highest majority and least majority members belongs to the age group of 65 and over.

However,there is another table which shows total loans by category in the year 2016.Children's and adult fiction has the same percent of loan and is the most loaned category by 38 percent.The young adult category has the least loan percentage in the table which is 2 percent.

The third table illustrates the total numbers of loans from 2007 to 2016.We can say from the table is that the year of 2016 had the highest number of loan and 2007 had the least number of loans from the library.But there was an in

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 4.5

You identify several relevant features, including adults as the largest membership group (51%) and the equal shares for children’s and adult fiction (38% each). However, the response only partially covers the charts: it gives little detail about the loan trend, and the final sentence is cut off at “there was an in…”. The claim that young adults have the least loan percentage is inaccurate: children’s DVDs are lowest at 1%, while young adults account for 2%. The overview is also incomplete, and the age-group figures are partly misreported: children are 22%, not merely the second-highest group without a figure. The response is 146 words, below the 150-word minimum; 11 words copied from the prompt were excluded from the count.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.0

The response has a basic sequence, moving from membership ages to loan categories and then to the decade-long loan chart. Paragraph breaks help distinguish these topics, and transitions such as “However” and “The third table” signal changes in focus. However, the progression is weakened by repetitive openings and limited linking between details. “We can say from the table is that” is an unclear transition, and the final sentence stops mid-thought, leaving the trend without a conclusion. The charts are also repeatedly called a “table,” which makes the references less precise. Organise the response into a clear introduction, an overview of the main patterns, and focused detail paragraphs, using references that make each chart unmistakable.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

You use enough basic topic vocabulary to communicate the subject, including “age group,” “category,” “loan,” and “highest number.” However, the range is limited and several word choices or collocations are inaccurate or repetitive. “Majority members” is not a natural way to describe the largest age group, and “most loaned category” would be clearer as “most borrowed category.” The repeated use of “table” for the charts also reduces precision. There are spelling errors, notably “chrildren,” and the phrase “gives an information” is not idiomatic. Use more precise reporting language such as “accounted for,” “share,” and “rose” or “fluctuated” to describe the data, while checking spelling and common collocations.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

The response communicates its general subject through mostly simple sentences, but grammatical errors are frequent and sometimes make relationships unclear. The opening has a subject–verb agreement error: “The charts below depicts” should be “The charts below depict.” Articles and countability are also problematic in “gives an information,” while “children’s and adult fiction has” needs a plural verb because it refers to two categories. The construction “We can say from the table is that” is incomplete; write, for example, “We can see from the chart that…”. Missing spaces after full stops and commas, together with the unfinished final sentence, further affect accuracy. Practise complete sentence patterns and check agreement, articles, and punctuation before finishing.

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