Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.0 · IELTS Academic Practice Accelerator · 2026-11-01

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 5.0)

The bar charts illustrates comparison of how students typical spend their weekday of three countries UK, Japan, and Germany.

Overall, bar chart shows total time studentes typically spent during weekday in three different activity such as sleep, study and relaxing. The chart shows Students from Japan spend their most of the times in studies. While, Students from UK and Germany spend their times alomost equally on Sleep, Study and leisure activities. On the other hand Japanese students spend very less time on leisure activity compared to UK and Germany.

The charts shows that Uk and Germany both countries students spend same time on relaxing activity.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.0

You identify the three countries and activities, and your overview correctly highlights Japan’s much greater study time and its lower leisure time. You also accurately note that UK and German students spend the same amount of time relaxing. However, the response only partially reports the chart: it gives no figures and omits important comparisons, such as Japan’s 7 hours of sleep versus 8.5 in the UK and 8 in Germany, and Germany’s 9 hours of study versus 8 in the UK. The claim that UK and German students divide time almost equally among all three activities is not well supported by the figures. The response is also 105 words, below the required 150, leaving the report underdeveloped. Include key data and comparisons to cover the task more fully.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.5

There is a basic structure: an introduction, an overview, and a final detail about relaxing. The overview also groups the countries in a potentially useful way. However, progression is limited because the final paragraph repeats one point from the overview rather than developing a fuller comparison of the data. The linking words “While” and “On the other hand” signal contrast, but the first is used as a sentence fragment, and the contrast between Japan and the other countries could be organised more clearly. The repeated openings “The bar charts” and “The charts” also make the response feel repetitive. A clearer sequence—overview followed by comparisons of each activity, supported by figures—would make the information easier to follow.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

You use relevant task vocabulary, including “comparison,” “activity,” “study,” and “leisure,” and the reader can generally understand the intended comparisons. However, the range is limited and several word choices or forms are inaccurate, such as “students typical spend,” “spend their most of the times,” and “very less time.” “Sleep,” “study,” and “relaxing” are repeated without much variation, while “times” is not a natural way to describe hours spent on activities. Spelling errors such as “studentes” and “alomost” also reduce accuracy. Use precise chart language such as “spend,” “hours,” “the greatest amount of time,” and “leisure time,” and check spelling and collocations.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

The response attempts an overview and some contrast, but sentence structures are mostly simple and errors occur frequently. For example, “The bar charts illustrates” has a subject–verb agreement error, while “how students typical spend their weekday” has an incorrect adverb form and an incomplete grammatical pattern. “Students from Japan spend their most of the times in studies” also has faulty sentence construction, and “While, Students…” is a fragment rather than a complete sentence. Capitalisation is inconsistent, as in “Uk” and “Students” mid-sentence. These errors sometimes make the reader work to understand the intended meaning. Practise accurate subject–verb agreement, articles and plural forms, and combine contrast clauses into complete sentences, such as “While Japanese students spend 13 hours studying, those in the UK spend 8.”

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