Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer
Overall Band Score: 5.5 · IELTS Academic Practice Accelerator · 2026-09-24
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 weekday data of the students in three different countries as UK, Japan and Germany. Also how they spendtheir time on different activities sleeping, studing and relaxing.
Overall, most of the students in Japan utile their time in studing, but also least students spend their time in relaxasion for their weekday.
Turning to the UK which experience similar preportion with minnor differance. As only 7 hours at relaxation, similarly studing and sleeping recorded at 8 and 8.5 hours respectively, Moving further, in Germany minimum time is consumed by relaxing 7 while sleeping consumed only 8 hours and 9 hours was maximum studing time in Germany.
In contrast, Japan recorded the highest figure over the time which was 13 hours of study by students which is almost double of the sleeping at 7 hours. However, least figure is also noticed in Japan as only 4 hours of day students utilise for their relaxation.
AI examiner evaluation
| Criterion | Band |
|---|---|
| Task Achievement / Task Response | 5.5 |
| Coherence and Cohesion | 5.5 |
| Lexical Resource | 5.5 |
| Grammatical Range and Accuracy | 5.0 |
| Overall | 5.5 |
Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.5
The response covers all parts of the task by reporting the main features from the bar chart for the UK, Japan, and Germany across three activities: sleeping, studying, and relaxing. An overview is attempted in the second paragraph, noting that Japanese students spend the most time studying and the least on relaxation. Key data points are correctly extracted, such as Japan's 13 hours of study and the UK's 8.5 hours of sleep. However, there are minor inaccuracies in reporting details, such as stating that Germany's minimum time consumed by relaxing is 7 hours, when 7 hours is actually the relaxing figure for both the UK and Germany. Overall, the information is sufficiently summarized and compared to meet the requirements of Band 6.0.
Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.5
The response has a coherent overall arrangement and follows a logical structure, beginning with an introduction, moving to an overview, and then detailing specific country data. Paragraphing is used, though paragraph breaks occur within the body description rather than separating themes cleanly. Cohesive devices are attempted (e.g., 'Overall', 'Turning to the UK', 'Moving further', 'In contrast'), but some are awkward or mechanical. Referencing is occasionally unclear, such as 'which experience similar preportion with minnor differance' where the antecedent is vague. Paragraphing could be more effectively managed to enhance the progression of ideas, placing this clearly at Band 6.0.
Lexical Resource: Band 5.5
The vocabulary used is adequate for the task, successfully handling terms related to time allocation and daily routines like 'sleeping', 'studying', and 'relaxing'. However, there are numerous spelling and word-choice errors throughout the text, such as 'studing' instead of studying, 'utile' instead of utilize, 'relaxasion' instead of relaxation, 'preportion' instead of proportion, and 'minnor differance' instead of minor difference. While these errors do not impede communication since the data remains understandable, they restrict the lexical score to Band 5.5 as they show frequent slips in basic academic vocabulary.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0
The student attempts a mix of simple and complex sentence structures, such as introductory prepositional phrases and relative clauses ('which was 13 hours of study by students which is almost double'). However, grammatical accuracy is weak, with frequent errors in verb forms, prepositions, and sentence fragments (e.g., 'Also how they spendtheir time on different activities sleeping, studing and relaxing' is a fragment). Punctuation and word boundary errors also occur frequently ('spendtheir', 'minnor'). Although communication is not completely impeded and simple structures are often handled adequately, the high frequency of grammatical errors keeps the score at Band 5.0.
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