Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.5 · IELTS Academic Practice Accelerator · 2026-10-29

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 provided bar chart illustrates the typical activities done by the students on weekday in three different countries.

Overall, there are three typical activities illustrates by the bar graph which are Sleeping, Studying and Relaxing.

To begin with studying, 13% of Japanes students study on weekends compared to the students of UK and Germany which are 8% & 9% moreover, the sleeping activity has the silimar graph that is 8.5% by students of UK, 7% by students of Japan and 8% by students of Germany.

The last activty which is Relaxing, Japanese students relax less with of 4% and students of UK and Germany relax same percentage on weekends with of 7%. The graph clearly highlights that students of Japan spend their most of time in study on weekends and less time on relaxing however, students of UK and Germany spents same time in relaxing. Therefore, Japan has the most disciplined students compared to UK and Germany.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.0

You report the three activities and include several accurate comparisons: Japanese students study the most (13), while UK and German students each spend 7 hours relaxing. However, the response only partly fulfils the summary task. The overview mainly lists the categories, rather than identifying the chart’s key pattern: studying is highest in Japan, whereas sleeping is the largest figure in the UK and Germany. You also describe the figures as percentages and refer to weekends, although the chart concerns a typical weekday and gives hours. The final claim that Japan has the “most disciplined students” is an unsupported judgement, not a feature shown by the data. Focus the overview on the main contrasts and report the units and time period accurately.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0

The response has a clear basic structure: an introduction, an overview, and separate paragraphs for studying/sleeping and relaxing. This makes the information reasonably easy to follow. Linking expressions such as “To begin with” and “The last activity” help signal progression, and the comparisons are generally grouped by activity. However, the overview does not provide a useful summary of the main pattern, and the final sentence adds an unrelated conclusion, weakening the progression. Some connections are also awkward or mechanical, particularly “moreover” joining two different comparisons and “however” introducing the contrast in the final paragraph. Organise the body consistently around the three activities and use linking words only where the relationship between ideas is clear.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use enough topic vocabulary to communicate the chart’s subject, including “activities,” “students,” “Sleeping,” “Studying,” and “Relaxing.” There is also some attempt to vary phrasing with “illustrates” and “highlights.” However, word choice and collocation are often inaccurate or repetitive: “activities done by the students” is less natural than a concise description of how students spend their day, and “relax less with of 4%” is unclear. Spelling errors such as “Japanes,” “silimar,” and “activty” are noticeable, while “disciplined” is an imprecise interpretation of the figures. Use precise chart language, such as “spend time studying” and “the figure for relaxing,” and check spelling carefully.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempt both simple and more complex sentences, including comparisons joined with “compared to” and a concluding sentence using “however.” Nevertheless, errors are frequent, and some sentence structures are difficult to follow. For example, “there are three typical activities illustrates by the bar graph” has an incorrect verb form; it should be “illustrated.” In “students of UK and Germany which are 8% & 9%,” the relative clause does not fit the sentence, and the article is missing before “the UK.” The phrase “students … relax same percentage” also lacks a grammatical verb pattern. Subject–verb agreement is faulty in “students … spents.” Practise accurate comparison structures and check verb forms, articles, and sentence boundaries when combining ideas.

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