Band 4.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 4.0 · IELTS Summit Mastery · 2026-10-24

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 4.0)

The graph illustrate information about people holding full driving licences in great britain by age and sex.

overall, it can be seen that men percentage showed a significant during the period,while the proportion of women is low in man experience a trend

In detail,the man rate of age 70 and over in 2006 was 60 % and in 1976 it was 20 %

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 3.0

The response identifies the chart’s general subject and attempts an overview, but it does not adequately summarise the main features or make meaningful comparisons. The claim that men’s percentage “showed a significant” change is incomplete, and the statement that women’s proportion “is low” does not capture the substantial increases among women across most age groups. The only specific comparison concerns men aged 70 and over, and both figures are inaccurate: the chart shows about 77% in 2006 and 35% in 1975/76, not 60% and 20%. The response is also 51 words, below the required 150-word minimum. Include an accurate overview and several key comparisons across age groups and years.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 4.5

There is a basic attempt to organise the response with an opening sentence, an overview marker (“overall”), and a detail marker (“In detail”). However, the ideas do not develop into a clear, connected summary: the overview is unfinished, and the final sentence gives only one comparison. The transition from the overview to the detail therefore does not establish a logical progression through the chart. Punctuation and spacing also make the sequence harder to follow, as in “period,while” and “In detail,the”. Use separate, complete paragraphs for the introduction, overview, and selected comparisons, and connect those comparisons with clear references to the years and age groups.

Lexical Resource: Band 4.5

The response uses a small set of relevant terms, including “full driving licences”, “age and sex”, “percentage”, and “proportion”, so the topic is recognisable. However, vocabulary is limited and some choices are inaccurate or unclear. “Men percentage” is not a natural phrase; use “the percentage of men” or “the proportion of male licence holders”. The phrase “women is low in man experience a trend” does not communicate a clear comparison, while “showed a significant” lacks a noun such as “increase” or “change”. Capitalisation is also inconsistent in “great britain”. To improve, use precise chart language such as “rose”, “remained higher”, and “the largest increase”, supported by accurate age-group terms.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 4.5

The response attempts simple statements and an overview, but grammatical control is inconsistent and sentence structures are very limited. In “The graph illustrate”, the singular subject requires “illustrates”. The clause “overall, it can be seen that men percentage showed a significant during the period” has missing grammatical elements: for example, “the percentage of men changed significantly over the period”. The sentence about women also lacks a clear, complete structure, and “the man rate of age 70 and over” needs a more accurate construction, such as “the rate for men aged 70 and over”. Commas and sentence boundaries are not consistently handled. Practise complete subject–verb structures and use a few accurate comparison clauses to express changes across years.

See this exact question answered at other band scores. The same prompt compared across bands.

Browse more IELTS Writing model answers or get your own writing scored by the same AI examiner.