Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.5 · IELTS Academic Practice Accelerator · 2026-10-01

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 activities(sleeping, studying and relaxing) of students in UK, Germany and Japan.

Overall, students from the from all countries Japan and Germany shows the highest figures of student studying whole week. While, the least number is shown by relaxing.

On the one hand, In the UK, mostly student are sleeping all the week. 8 percent people are studying when they are going to educational institutes. In the UK, relaxing is the least counted activity among the school going around 7%. Moerover, it can be seen that student are getting lowesr time for relaxing. UK and Germany students have similar 7% relaxing time in the week.

On the other hand, Japan student showed highest proportion of student busy in studying and it was the highest in all countries at 13%. They are sleeping 7% whole week which was similar to realxing activity in UK and Germany. Additionaly, only 4% time is spend in relaxing in Japan which was lowest among other two countries. Germany has 9 % studying student with 8 % sleeping and only 7% are relaxing during week.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.5

The response addresses the main features of the prompt by summarizing the data for the three countries, but the information is presented with some confusion. The student attempts to compare sleeping, studying, and relaxing, but misinterprets the data scale and units, referring to percentages ('8 percent people', '7% relaxing time') instead of hours. There is an overview attempted in the second paragraph, though it is somewhat confused in expression ('students from the from all countries Japan and Germany shows the highest figures'). Key features such as Japan's high studying hours (13 hours) are correctly identified, but other comparisons are under-developed or inaccurately reported due to mechanical expression and mechanical referencing. To reach a higher level, the data should be interpreted with correct units and clear, fully developed comparisons without mechanical inaccuracies.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.5

The response has an overall structure with an introduction, an overview, and body paragraphs separated for different countries, but the progression is disjointed. Paragraphing is attempted, but internal cohesion is faulty. Transitional phrases like 'On the one hand' and 'On the other hand' are used mechanically and somewhat inappropriately since the chart compares three discrete entities rather than two contrasting sides. Referencing is frequently unclear, with pronouns and relational words making it difficult to follow which country or activity is being discussed. Repetition of structures and ideas further hinders the flow. To improve, the student needs to use a wider and more accurate range of cohesive devices and ensure that ideas are logically sequenced with clear transitions between sentences and paragraphs.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

The vocabulary used is limited and barely adequate for the task, with noticeable errors that occasionally cause difficulty for the reader. The student relies on basic terms such as 'activities', 'figures', and 'proportion', and attempts some less common vocabulary with inaccuracy, such as 'least counted activity' and 'lowest time'. There are also several word-form and word-choice errors, including 'realxing' instead of 'relaxing', 'lowesr', and 'Moerover'. While the topic vocabulary is understandable in context, the lexical range restricts the precision required for a higher band. To achieve a higher score, the student should incorporate a wider variety of precise vocabulary and accurate collocations to describe statistical trends and data points.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

The response shows a very limited range of sentence structures, relying mostly on simple sentences with frequent attempts at complex structures that turn out faulty. There are frequent grammatical errors throughout the text, including subject-verb agreement issues ('students... shows', 'student are sleeping', 'Japan student showed'), missing or incorrect articles ('in UK', 'mostly student'), and awkward prepositional phrases ('spend in relaxing'). These frequent errors cause some difficulty for the reader and impede the clarity of the comparisons. To progress to a higher band, the student must demonstrate better control over basic grammar rules, such as plurals, articles, and subject-verb agreement, while producing a greater variety of error-free complex sentence forms.

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