Band 4.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 4.0 · Cambridge IELTS 17 · 2026-09-27

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

The charts below show the average percentages in typical meals of three types of nutrients, all of which may be unhealthy if eaten too much.

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

Average percentages of sodium, saturated fats and added sugars in typical meals consumed in the USA

Student answer (Band 4.0)

this chart show tree type pie chart in this image,and tree types of nutrients like sodium, saturated fat , addeed sugar.

overall,one by one pie chart show defferent type of meal on our food, tree chart show four type food consumed like, sank, breakfast,lunch, dinner.

but there picture many type percentage of food consumed in usa, sodium dinner meal consumed in the hight dinner meal ,and saturated fat, dinner increase in dinner ,while added sugar discrease in dinner time.

while snack added sugar in hight conusumed, but brackfast time low consumed nutrition,while sanck hight consumed i

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 4.0

The response falls significantly short of the 150-word minimum requirement, containing only 96 words. This severely limits the student's ability to fully address all parts of the task. While the writer attempts to identify some features from the charts—such as mentioning sodium and saturated fat peaking at dinner, and added sugar peaking during snacks—the overview and comparisons are extremely fragmentary, imprecise, and poorly developed. Key data points are misstated or garbled, and the lack of a proper, comprehensive summary and comparison across the three charts means the response only minimally addresses the prompt. Consequently, this falls into Band 4.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 4.0

The text suffers from severe structural and cohesive deficiencies. Although the writer attempts to use transitional phrases like 'overall' and 'while', sentences are often fragmented and fail to form a logical sequence. Paragraphing is highly rudimentary and ineffective, consisting of disconnected single-sentence lines that do not structure the information clearly. Referencing is frequently unclear, making it difficult for the reader to follow the progression of ideas. These organizational flaws place the response firmly in Band 4.

Lexical Resource: Band 4.0

The vocabulary used is very basic, repetitive, and plagued by severe spelling errors and awkward word choices, such as 'tree' instead of 'three', 'addeed', 'sank' instead of 'snack', 'defferent', 'hight' instead of 'high', 'discrease', and 'brackfast'. The student lacks the appropriate lexical range to discuss statistical data effectively, relying on imprecise terms and incorrect collocations. These errors cause considerable strain for the reader, aligning the vocabulary performance with Band 4.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 4.0

Grammatical control is extremely weak throughout the response. There is an absence of complex sentence structures, and even simple sentences contain major structural errors and missing elements (e.g., 'this chart show tree type pie chart in this image,and tree types of nutrients'). Punctuation and capitalization are poorly handled, and run-on sentences with incorrect conjunction use are frequent. Due to the constant presence of severe grammatical errors that frequently obscure meaning, a Band 4 score is warranted.

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