Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer
Overall Band Score: 5.5 · Cambridge IELTS 17 · 2026-10-06
IELTS Writing Task 1 question
below shows the value of one country’s exports in various categories during 2015 and 2016. The table shows the percentage change in each category of exports in 2016 compared with 2015.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
Student answer (Band 5.5)
The chart represents the exports earning of a single country in two years while the table gives information about propotion of value change in 2016 when comapred with 2025.
Overall, The money earned by export has gone up collectively across all five sectors. The percentage value of export also grew in four out of five sectors, only gems and jewellery drop marginally.
Export earning by patroleum products grew form around 60 to 65 billion and contributed the most out of all other sectors. The upward trend is followed by other sectors including engineered products form aprroximatly 55 billion to 60 billion in 2016. Agriculture protducts remained mostly stable with a slight incerace in 2016 comapred to 2015 while textiles earned considerbily more around 40 billion compared to around 35 billion in 2015. Gems and jewellry earning absorbed minor fall from 50 billion to just under 46 billion.
The percentage value of Pateroleum products increaced by 3 percent, engineered goods by 3 percent, agricuture exports by 0.81 percent and textiles with largest increase by 15.24 percent. In contarst, gems and jewelley experienced minor drop by 5.18 percent.
AI examiner evaluation
| Criterion | Band |
|---|---|
| Task Achievement / Task Response | 5.0 |
| Coherence and Cohesion | 6.0 |
| Lexical Resource | 5.0 |
| Grammatical Range and Accuracy | 5.5 |
| Overall | 5.5 |
Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.0
The response covers the main features of the charts, attempting to report both the export earnings and percentage changes. However, there are notable mechanical errors in reading the data from the visual source, such as stating that petroleum products grew to '65 billion' and mentioning a year '2025' instead of 2015. While an overview is provided, some of the data details are inaccurate or generalised in a way that reflects partial understanding of the input. Ideas are presented but remain somewhat under-developed due to these data inaccuracies, placing the response at a level where the task is only partially addressed.
Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0
The response has a coherent overall arrangement and follows a logical structure, moving from an introduction to an overview, body paragraphs on earnings, and finally the percentage changes. Paragraphing is used appropriately to separate different parts of the visual data. However, referencing and cohesion are sometimes mechanical or faulty, such as the abrupt transitions between sentences and repetitive phrasing. While the organization allows the reader to follow the general progression of information, cohesive devices are occasionally inadequate or imprecise, keeping the response at a solid mid-level for this criterion.
Lexical Resource: Band 5.0
The vocabulary used is adequate to communicate basic ideas about the data, including terms like 'export earnings', 'percentage value', and 'upward trend'. However, there are noticeable spelling and word choice errors throughout the text, such as 'propotion', 'comapred', 'patroleum', 'incerace', 'considerbily', 'jewellry', 'increaced', 'agricuture', and 'contarst'. These lexical inaccuracies and occasional spelling slips restrict the range of vocabulary and cause some minor difficulty for the reader, fitting the criteria for a limited but minimally adequate lexical range.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5
The writer attempts a mix of simple and complex sentence forms, such as 'The chart represents the exports earning of a single country in two years while the table gives information...' However, there is a limited range of reliable structures, and attempts at complex sentences often contain errors. Frequent errors include missing articles ('exports earning'), incorrect prepositions ('earning by patroleum products'), and tense confusion ('while comapred with 2025'). These grammatical errors persist throughout the text and require some effort from the reader to decode, though they rarely obscure the overall meaning completely.
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