Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.5 · IELTS Academic Practice Accelerator · 2026-11-13

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 compares the percentages for the typical weekday for students in three different countries.

Overall, most of the students engaged in studying during the weekday in Japan and Germany while UK had most number of students in sleepling. Relaxing was comparatively less in all these countries.

In UK, 8.5 percent of students were into sleeping and 8% of them are studying at weekdays while relaxing ones were lesser than both by being at 7%. Furthermore, Japan had the highest number of students studying at 13% and lowest in relaxing at 4% while sleeping was at moderate by 7%.

In addition, 9% of students participated in studying in Germany whereas 8% of them were at sleeping side and relaxing remained at 7% as Uk.

Among these three countries UK and Germany were at average percentages while Japan had good percentage in studying but it lacks at sleeping and relaxing than other two countries.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.5

You report the main figures for all three countries and identify Japan’s studying figure as the highest, while noting that relaxing is lower there. However, the overview is not fully accurate: studying is the largest category in Japan and Germany, but sleeping is only slightly higher than studying in the UK (8.5 versus 8), rather than clearly representing the most common activity. The claim that relaxing was comparatively less in all countries is also too broad, since it is close to the other figures in the UK and Germany. The response is five words below the 150-word minimum, and the nine words copied from the prompt do not count. A more precise overview and a little more comparison would make the summary more complete.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.5

The response has a recognisable structure: an introduction, an overview, and country-by-country details. Linking phrases such as “Furthermore” and “In addition” help signal movement between comparisons, and the figures are generally grouped by country. However, progression is weakened by repetition: the final paragraph repeats that Japan has high studying but lower sleeping and relaxing, which has already been stated. Some connections are also unclear, particularly “UK and Germany were at average percentages,” because it does not specify which activities or figures are being compared. Organise the body around the main contrasts—such as Japan’s high study time and the similar relaxation figures in the UK and Germany—and use references that make each comparison explicit.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use relevant task vocabulary, including “compares,” “highest,” “lowest,” and “percentages,” so the reader can understand the intended comparisons. However, the range is limited and several expressions are unnatural or imprecise for describing chart data. For example, “students were into sleeping,” “relaxing ones,” and “sleeping side” are informal or awkward, while “good percentage” does not clearly describe a value. The spelling “sleepling” is also noticeable. Prefer standard collocations such as “spent time sleeping,” “the proportion studying,” and “the figure for relaxation.” More precise vocabulary would help distinguish the activities and make the comparisons sound appropriately academic.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You attempt both simple and more complex sentences, including the contrast introduced by “while,” and most of the numerical information remains understandable. However, errors recur in sentence construction and verb forms. In “UK had most number of students,” the article and comparative structure are incomplete; “8% of them are studying at weekdays” shifts tense and uses an awkward time expression; and “relaxing ones were lesser” has an unsuitable comparative construction. The sentence beginning “Among these three countries” also lacks a clear grammatical link between the countries and the percentages. Use consistent past tense or neutral chart-description forms, check articles and agreement, and build comparisons with patterns such as “the figure for X was higher than that for Y.”

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