Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.5 · IELTS Academic Practice Accelerator · 2026-11-09

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

The bar chart shows the typical weekday for students in three different countries.

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

Student answer (Band 5.5)

The bar chart below illustrates, what students in thee different countries (UK, Japan, Germany) dose in the typical weekdays. The activities are categorized into sleeping, studying and relaxing.

Overall, it is seen that most students were studying, expect in UK, where more students were sleeping than studying. It is seen that most of them did not get much time to relax in any three of the countries.

In the terms of studying, students from Japan were the most studious. 13% spent weekdays studying. In second position was Germany, where 9% were studying and 8% students in UK were studying in weekdays.

On the otherhand, 8.5% that is 0.5% more in UK students were sleeping. Next were 8% students who slept in weekday in Germany and only 4% of Japanese students slept in weekdays. Same percentage of students relaxed in both UK and Germany, which is 7% but only 4% relaxed in Japan.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0

You identify the chart’s three activities and make relevant comparisons, including Japan’s high study figure and the matching relaxation figures for the UK and Germany. The overview also captures the broad pattern that studying takes the most time in Japan and Germany, while the UK figure for sleeping is slightly higher than its study figure. However, several figures are reported as percentages, although the chart gives time values, and Japan’s sleeping figure is 7, not 4; 4 is its relaxation value. The claim that most students were studying is also too broad, since the chart reports hours rather than proportions of students. More precise reporting of the units and a clearer overview of the main contrasts would make the response more complete.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0

The response has a clear overall arrangement: an introduction, an overview, and separate paragraphs comparing study with sleep and relaxation. This makes the main information reasonably easy to follow. Linking phrases such as “Overall,” “In second position,” and “On the other hand” help signal the direction of the comparisons. However, some connections are mechanical or unclear. For example, “In the terms of studying” and “Next were 8% students” do not express the comparisons smoothly, while the final paragraph combines sleeping and relaxing figures in a way that makes the sequence harder to track. Use more direct comparison structures and keep each activity’s figures together to improve progression and cohesion.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use a relevant range of vocabulary for describing the chart, including “categorized,” “studious,” “position,” and “relaxed,” and the reader can generally understand the intended comparisons. However, several word choices and collocations are inaccurate or awkward: “dose” for “do,” “expect” for “except,” “in the terms of,” and “same percentage” when the chart shows hours rather than percentages. “Most studious” also describes people rather than the amount of time shown. Spelling errors such as “thee” and “otherhand” further reduce precision. Aim for standard chart language and accurate units, for example “spent the most time studying” and “the same number of hours relaxing.”

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempt both simple and more complex sentence forms, including the overview clause “where more students were sleeping than studying” and the comparison beginning “Same percentage of students relaxed…”. The main ideas remain understandable, but grammatical control is uneven. The opening sentence has faulty punctuation after “illustrates,” and “what students… dose” does not form a correct clause. Other examples include “in any three of the countries,” “8% students,” and “slept in weekday,” where articles, prepositions, or sentence structure are missing or inaccurate. Some sentences also lack a clear grammatical link between the figure and the group it describes. Practise complete comparison sentences and check articles, plural forms, and clause construction.

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