Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.5 · IELTS Academic Practice Accelerator · 2026-10-22

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 how students in UK, Japan, and Germany spend their typical weekday. Overall, it can be clearly seen that majority of students preferred to study in three different countries. whereas, relaxing is the least common habibit in students.

In UK, sleeping is the most common habbit while peaking the highest rate as compare to other two countries. Moreover, the rate of studying is 8 weekdays while relaxing is the least well known habbit in UK.

In Japan, the amount of students who prefer sleeping for weekdays is 7 which is the lowest value in contrast of UK and Germany. The rate of studing in Japan is 13 which is the peak value of the bar chart. Japan has the lowest rate of relaxing.

In Germany, the rate of sleeping is 8 and the proportion of studing is 9 which is the highest value as compare to sleeping and relaxing in Germany. The ate of relaxing is 7 which is same as sleeping in UK.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0

You identify the three countries and all three activities, and your overview correctly notes that studying is the leading activity overall while relaxing is generally lower. Several comparisons are also accurate: Japan has the highest studying figure at 13 hours, and its relaxing figure of 4 is the lowest. However, some key details are unclear or inaccurate. In the UK, sleeping is 8.5 hours, slightly more than studying at 8, but the response calls it the most common without clearly comparing it with the other countries. The claim that most students preferred studying is also imprecise because the chart reports hours, not preferences or proportions of students. A clearer overview and more precise comparisons across countries would make the main features better developed.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0

The response has a recognisable structure: an introduction and overview are followed by separate paragraphs for the UK, Japan and Germany. This country-by-country organisation makes the information easy to locate, and linking expressions such as “Moreover” and “In contrast” help connect some comparisons. However, progression is sometimes mechanical, with each paragraph repeating a similar pattern rather than grouping the most important comparisons across activities. The overview’s “whereas” is incorrectly separated into a new sentence, and some references, such as “the highest rate” or “the lowest value,” could be more explicit about which activity or country is being compared. Grouping the main contrasts more deliberately and using clearer links would improve cohesion.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use relevant chart vocabulary, including “illustrates,” “rate,” “proportion,” and “lowest value,” and the reader can generally understand the comparisons you intend. However, the range is limited by repeated use of “rate” and “habbit,” and several choices are inaccurate for a chart showing hours: students do not “prefer sleeping for weekdays,” and “least well known habit” does not describe the amount of time spent relaxing. There are also spelling errors, including “habbit,” “studing,” and “ate,” which reduce precision. Choose vocabulary that describes time allocation directly, such as “spend,” “hours,” and “account for,” and check spelling and collocations carefully. This would make your descriptions more natural and precise.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempt a mixture of simple and more complex sentences, including comparisons with “while” and “as … as,” and most of your meaning remains understandable. However, some grammatical errors affect clarity. For example, “majority of students” needs an article, and “whereas” should not begin a separate sentence in the way it does here. The phrase “the rate of studying is 8 weekdays” has an unclear grammatical relationship between the number and its unit, while “as compare to” uses an incorrect form in the comparison structure. Sentence patterns are also quite repetitive, and control becomes less secure in longer constructions. Practise accurate comparative forms and build sentences that state the activity, number and unit clearly.

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