Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.0 · IELTS Academic Practice Accelerator · 2026-11-10

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 5.0)

The bar chart compares the workday for learners in three distint countries which are united kingdom,japan and germany.After comparing three countries,studying averages more than others.

Firstly,pupils in UK has sleeping rate high during workdays.Followe by studying and relaxing,where studying rates just below sleeping by 0.5.Undergraduates in japan are very active in studying.they have lower proportion in sleeping and relaxing.The scholars in germany has balanced of type of business days by having almost equal scale of every activity.However,studying has slightly higher rate in germany.Ralxing has slightly low scale.

secondly,comparing all three countries relaxing marks the lowest activity done by students during noramls.Studying wieghing higher ractivity done by students during business days in all three countris except in united kingdom.sleeping averages almost equal by all countries .So,pupils are most ly intresed in studuing comaredother two a

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.0

You identify the three countries and activities, and you make relevant comparisons, such as Japan having the highest study figure and relaxing being relatively low. However, the overview is unclear and some claims do not match the chart: UK students sleep 8.5 hours, slightly more than studying at 8, so sleeping is not simply the highest by a clear margin; Germany’s figures are not almost equal, since studying is 9 hours compared with 8 for sleeping and 7 for relaxing. The claim that studying is higher in all countries except the UK is also inaccurate, as it is the highest activity in Japan and Germany but not the UK. The response is 134 words, below the required 150, and several key comparisons remain underdeveloped.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.0

There is some organisation: you begin with an introduction, use a first comparison paragraph, and then add a paragraph beginning “secondly.” The response also attempts to group information by country and by activity. However, the overall progression is difficult to follow because the comparisons shift abruptly, and the second paragraph repeats points from the first rather than extending them. Connectors such as “Firstly,” “However,” and “So” do not always show the precise relationship between ideas. The final sentence is incomplete, which leaves the response without a clear conclusion. Use a more deliberate structure—an overview followed by grouped comparisons—and make each paragraph develop a distinct point.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

You use some task-related vocabulary, including “proportion,” “averages,” and “activity,” and you attempt to vary references to students with “pupils,” “undergraduates,” and “scholars.” However, word choice and collocation are often inaccurate or unclear, as in “sleeping rate,” “balanced of type of business days,” and “relaxing marks the lowest activity.” Several spelling errors, including “distint,” “Ralxing,” and “noramls,” also make the text harder to read. Some expressions such as “business days” do not accurately describe the chart’s weekday activities. Aim for precise, natural phrases such as “hours spent sleeping” and “the time allocated to studying,” and check spelling carefully.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

The response includes simple statements and attempts to combine ideas, for example, “However, studying has slightly higher rate in germany.” However, sentence structures are limited, and errors occur frequently enough to make some relationships difficult to understand. Examples include “pupils in UK has,” where the subject and verb do not agree, and “The scholars in germany has,” which has the same problem. Articles and sentence boundaries are also often missing, as in “studying averages more than others” and the opening sentence, where country names run together without appropriate punctuation. The final clause is unfinished. Practise accurate subject–verb agreement, articles, and complete sentences before adding more complex structures.

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