Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.0 · IELTS Summit Mastery · 2026-09-19

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

The graphs below show the percentage of people holding full driving licences in Great Britain by age and sex.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

Full car driving licence holders: by sex and age

Student answer (Band 5.0)

The graph illustrates the proportion of men and women holding full driving licenses in Great Britain with respect to age and gender.

The men from the age group 17-20 are 36% in 1975/76 and for women with same age group in the same year was upto 20%. The year 2006 concludes men having license approximately 38% whereas for women this ratio goes just about 36% in the same year. For the year 1975/76, the age group 21-29 comprises of 78% of men and 42% of women. However, ths particular percentages of license holders in this age group described in 2006 for both the men and women are 75% and 64% respectively.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response — Band 4.5

The response fails to meet the minimum length requirement of 150 words, containing only 111 words, which significantly impacts Task Achievement. While the student attempts to summarise the data for specific age groups such as 17-20 and 21-29, the selection of information is very limited and lacks a comprehensive overview of the main trends across the entire chart. Furthermore, there is no concluding summary or broader comparison between the two time periods or between genders across all age categories. Data points are mentioned, such as "78% of men and 42% of women", but the overall response is incomplete and under-developed, resulting in a low band score.

Coherence and Cohesion — Band 5.0

The text is organized into two basic paragraphs, but the overall progression is disjointed. The response abruptly jumps into specific data points without a clear introductory overview of the main trends. Cohesive devices are minimal and sometimes awkward, such as "The year 2006 concludes men having license approximately 38%" and "ths particular percentages". Paragraphing is also affected because the text cuts off prematurely before fully organizing the remaining data. Referencing and logical connections between sentences need significant improvement to ensure a smooth, readable progression of ideas.

Lexical Resource — Band 5.0

The vocabulary used is generally basic and repetitive, relying on standard terms like "proportion", "percentage", "men", and "women". There are noticeable lexical and collocation errors, such as "concludes men having license" instead of showing or recording, and spelling slips like "ths" instead of "these". While the student attempts some less common phrases like "age group" and "ratio", the overall lexical range is narrow and barely adequate for the task. More precise academic vocabulary and accurate word choices are required to achieve a higher score.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy — Band 5.0

The writing demonstrates a limited range of sentence structures, relying mostly on simple and awkwardly constructed complex sentences. There are several grammatical errors and awkward phrasing choices, such as "The men from the age group 17-20 are 36% in 1975/76 and for women with same age group in the same year was upto 20%", which suffers from subject-verb agreement issues and inconsistent tense/structure parallelisms. Punctuation is generally acceptable, but frequent minor grammatical slips and awkward syntax cause some difficulty for the reader and restrict the score.

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