Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.5 · Cambridge IELTS 20 · 2026-11-01

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 5.5)

The bar, table and pic chart illustrates the figure of its age group, catgatoies percentage, total number of loans of a public library called Little Chalfont.

Overall, adults from 18 to 64 age group go the higtest figure, while children's and adult fiction scored top in table.and most of the year the total loans accounted significant numbers.

In age groups adults stood at the highest accounting 51% , while young adult and elderly people accounted less than chindren. In table the children and adult fiction stood at the top with 38% and total almost 72% and the other catagories fot total of less than 30%.

In 2007 the fihure stood at more than 15 thousands in increased in 2008 to almost 18 thousands.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.5

You identify relevant features from the charts, including the largest membership group (adults aged 18–64, at 51%) and the joint leading loan categories (children’s and adult fiction, each 38%). However, the response covers the information only partially: it gives almost no account of the loan trend after 2008, despite the chart showing totals generally around 19,000–22,000 through 2016. The statement that young adults and elderly people were below children is also inaccurate: young adults were 15% versus children at 22%, but people aged 65 and over were 12%. The overview is vague, and the response is 27 words below the required minimum, limiting the detail available. Include a clear overview and select key figures across all three visuals.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.5

There is a basic attempt to organise the response into an introduction, an overview and detail paragraphs, and the reader can identify which charts are being discussed. However, progression is limited: the final paragraph mentions only 2007 and 2008, then stops, leaving the time-series chart largely unreported. Connections between ideas are sometimes unclear, as in “children's and adult fiction scored top in table.and most of the year,” where punctuation and the joining of points disrupt the flow. Some linking language, such as “while” and “In 2007,” is used, but relationships between comparisons are not consistently expressed. Group the membership and loan-category data clearly, then describe the loan trend in chronological order with a concluding comparison.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

The response uses some task-relevant vocabulary, including “age group,” “accounted,” “percentage” and “total number of loans,” so the main subject is generally recognisable. However, the range is limited and several spelling and word-choice errors make the writing less clear, such as “catgatoies,” “higtest,” “chindren” and “fihure.” Phrases such as “go the highest figure” and “stood at the top” are not natural ways to describe chart data, while “significant numbers” is too vague to communicate a precise trend. Use accurate terms such as “accounted for,” “the largest proportion” and “rose to,” and check spelling carefully. More precise vocabulary would help distinguish membership shares from loan totals.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempt both simple statements and longer comparisons, for example, “while young adult and elderly people accounted less than chindren.” However, the range of sentence structures is limited, and errors occur frequently enough to make some relationships difficult to follow. The opening has a subject–verb agreement problem (“The bar, table and pic chart illustrates”), and the overview contains an incomplete or poorly joined sentence: “children's and adult fiction scored top in table.and most of the year…” Articles, prepositions and punctuation are also inconsistently controlled, as in “accounting 51%” and the missing space after the full stop in “table.and.” Practise complete, clearly punctuated sentences and patterns such as “accounted for 51%” and “rose from … to …”.

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