Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.0 · IELTS Academic Practice Accelerator · 2026-08-16

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

The table gives information about the average hours spent on the Internet by European people of different age groups.

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

Student answer (Band 5.0)

The table illustrates the average time spent on on internet by European people of six different demographic groups cateogorized by males and females from the age of 11 to 51+.

Overall, teenagers and under 20 individual spent more time on internet. While people of the age brakcet 51+ spent less time on internet.

Regard to highest use of internet, age bracket from 16-20 are dominant user accross the time (19 male and 18 female respectively). Childeren of the age 11-15 use just 8 male and 6 female,

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response — Band 4.0

The response fails to meet the minimum word count requirement of 150 words, which significantly impacts the score. Because the text is only 87 words long, the information is severely underdeveloped. While you have attempted to identify some main features, such as the high usage among teenagers and low usage among the 51+ age group, the report is incomplete. You have not provided a comprehensive summary of all data points, and the analysis stops abruptly. To improve, you must ensure you cover all categories presented in the table and provide a more thorough comparison of the data to meet the length requirement.

Coherence and Cohesion — Band 5.0

The response is too short to demonstrate effective paragraphing or a logical progression of ideas. While there is a basic attempt at an introduction and an overview, the lack of development makes it difficult to assess your ability to organize information. You use some basic cohesive devices like 'Overall' and 'While', but the transition between the overview and the specific data points is abrupt. To improve, you should structure your essay into clear paragraphs: an introduction, an overview of the main trends, and two body paragraphs detailing specific comparisons.

Lexical Resource — Band 5.0

The vocabulary is quite limited and repetitive. You use basic terms like 'spent more time' and 'use', which are functional but lack the precision expected in an academic report. There are also several spelling errors, such as 'cateogorized', 'brakcet', 'accross', and 'Childeren'. These errors, combined with the limited range of vocabulary, restrict your ability to convey information with precision. To improve, focus on using a wider variety of reporting verbs and nouns related to data, such as 'figures', 'demographics', 'proportion', and 'exceed'.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy — Band 5.0

The response contains several grammatical errors that hinder clarity. For example, 'spent more time on internet' is missing the definite article 'the', and 'Regard to highest use' is grammatically incorrect. Your sentence structures are very simple, and there is a lack of complex sentence forms. The punctuation is also inconsistent, particularly in the final sentence where the list ends abruptly with a comma. To improve, focus on using articles correctly, ensuring subject-verb agreement, and incorporating a wider range of complex sentence structures to describe trends.

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