Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.0 · Cambridge IELTS 17 · 2026-10-25

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 5.0)

The pie chart display the normal percentage in cheap meals of three kind of nutrients all of which may be very unhealthy if this meal eat too much.

overal, in dinner add the sodium is too much instead of snack, breakfast, and lunch.

To start, in snack and breakfast add the equal percentage of sodium 14%.While lunch has absorbed 29 percentage sodium.And dinner have 43% sodium.

In snack and breakfast slightly difference is between 16 percentage to 21 percentage of saturated fat. In lunch hae include the saturated far 26%.While in dinner 37% contain the saturated fat.

And the last pie chart show the quantity of the sugar how add in snack, breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The snack include the 42 percentage sugar. It is the highest absorbevation.Forever, the breakfast 16% add the sugar. And In lunch 19% slightly difference from breakfast.And the last dinner put the sugger 23 percentage.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.5

You report the main meal-by-meal figures for all three nutrients, and several are accurate: sodium is highest at dinner (43%) and tied between breakfast and snacks (14%), while added sugar peaks in snacks (42%). However, the overview is incomplete because it says only that dinner has the most sodium; it should also identify dinner as the largest source of saturated fat and snacks as the largest source of added sugar. Some comparisons are unclear or inaccurate: “slightly difference” does not describe the 16%–21% saturated-fat figures clearly, and the sugar figures are listed without highlighting their relative pattern. A concise overview of the key contrasts, followed by accurate comparisons, would make the response more fully address the task.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.5

The response has a basic sequence: it introduces the charts, then discusses sodium, saturated fat and added sugar in turn. This gives the reader some sense of organisation, and phrases such as “To start” and “And the last pie chart” signal movement between topics. However, progression is weakened by the lack of clear paragraphing and by awkward or repetitive links, including repeated use of “And” and “While.” Some sentences are fragments or difficult to follow, such as “In snack and breakfast slightly difference is between 16 percentage to 21 percentage.” Grouping the overview separately and using one paragraph per nutrient, with clear comparisons within each, would improve the flow.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

You use some task-related vocabulary, including “percentage,” “sodium,” “saturated fat” and “sugar,” so the reader can identify the subject and many figures. However, the range is limited and several word choices or spellings make the meaning difficult to interpret. “Cheap meals” is not an appropriate substitute for “typical meals,” “absorbevation” appears to be an unsuccessful attempt at “observation,” and “sugger” is misspelled. Phrases such as “add the sodium” and “put the sugar” are also unnatural for describing chart data. Use precise reporting language such as “accounted for,” “made up” and “the proportion of,” and check spelling and collocations carefully.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 4.5

There are attempts to report figures in both short statements and longer comparisons, but grammatical control is limited and errors occur frequently. The opening, “The pie chart display,” has subject–verb disagreement, while “all of which may be very unhealthy if this meal eat too much” has an incomplete and confusing clause. Other examples include “dinner have 43% sodium” and “the breakfast 16% add the sugar,” where sentence structure and verb forms are faulty. Punctuation and spacing are also inconsistent, with several sentences joined or separated awkwardly. Practise accurate simple comparison patterns first—for example, “Dinner accounts for 43% of sodium”—then build longer sentences using “whereas” or “while.”

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