Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

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

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 illustrates the weekdays for the following countries Uk, Japan and germany.The sleeping trend is somewhat normal in all the countries, The studying trend is more than normal in Japan leaving behind the other two countries and lastly the relaxing bar is the same in Uk and Germany whereas less in Japan so it means that japenese students prefer more studying rather than relaxing and sleeping.

The overall bar chart shows that japense students love studying more than relaxing and sleeping rather than students in Germany and Uk whereas Students of Germany and Uk are at the same level in all three aspects but still germany students are ahead of the the students in Uk.The japense students records less relaxing that the other country students.So the graph illustrates that japenese students are more hardworking and good at time management and loves to study than the other country students.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.5

You identify the main contrast that Japanese students spend the most time studying and the least time relaxing, and you compare the UK and Germany in relaxing. However, several key details are inaccurate or unclear: the UK and Germany are not at the same level in all three activities, since their sleeping and studying figures differ, and Germany does not exceed the UK in every aspect. The chart reports hours, but your response does not state any figures, so the comparisons remain broad. The claims that Japanese students are “more hardworking” and have better time management are interpretations not demonstrated by the chart. A clearer overview and accurate comparisons of the three activities would make the summary more complete.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.5

Your response has an identifiable overall focus: it contrasts Japanese students’ study time with the other countries and notes the shared relaxing figure for the UK and Germany. However, the ideas are packed into two long paragraphs, and the second largely repeats the first rather than progressing from an overview to selected details. Linking words such as “whereas,” “and lastly,” and “so” are used, but the relationships between claims are sometimes unclear. For example, the statement that the UK and Germany are “at the same level in all three aspects” conflicts with the later claim that Germany is ahead. Organise the response into a brief overview followed by comparisons of the figures, and use clear references to each country and activity.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

You use some relevant vocabulary, including “trend,” “studying,” “relaxing,” and “prefer,” so the reader can recognise the chart’s subject. However, the range is limited and several expressions are imprecise or unnatural for describing data. “The sleeping trend is somewhat normal” does not clearly explain what the figures show, while “the relaxing bar is the same” is less precise than saying the time spent relaxing is equal. There are also repeated spelling errors in country references, including “japense,” “japense,” and “germany,” and “love studying” is too informal for an academic summary. Choose precise terms such as “spend,” “hours,” “highest,” and “lowest,” and check country names carefully.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempt to connect ideas in longer sentences, for example with “whereas” and “so,” but these structures are often difficult to follow because of sentence-boundary and agreement problems. The opening runs several sentences together without appropriate capitalisation or punctuation: “countries Uk, Japan and germany.The sleeping trend…” The phrase “students … loves to study” has a subject–verb agreement error, and “the students in Uk” shows inconsistent article and capitalisation use. Some clauses also lack clear grammatical structure, as in “The japense students records less relaxing.” Use shorter, complete sentences, check singular and plural verb forms, and punctuate each main point clearly before attempting more complex comparisons.

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