Band 4.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 4.0 · IELTS Summit Mastery · 2026-10-07

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

A restaurant has placed an advertisement for waiters and waitresses in your local newspaper. Write a letter to the restaurant, applying for the job. In the letter

• explain what you are currently doing
• describe your suitability for this area of work
• say when you can attend an interview.

Student answer (Band 4.0)

i curently not doing and not a employer requried and i can help me or my application submite and that come her imployer resturent because more city full resutrant in employer i have not a employment but i agree its resturent job i acutuly not a it resturent jo buti am unemployer i am one person in my home to earn money and 3 my doughter are littel baby and 2 my brother with me in my home its food requried earn to many its caue of in application submite in resturent i go to sunday because my duughter drop and pic their school i free on day sundy i weant to heir resturent fo interview and you decided for employment to keep in resturent i am very worried please to keep in resturent employer for your resturent please sir i am very very worried in to raise a family

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 4.0

You make a limited attempt to address the application task: you say that you are currently unemployed, explain that you need to support your family, and indicate Sunday as a possible interview day. These details are relevant, but the letter does not clearly explain your suitability for waiting work. For example, “i am not a it resturent jo” suggests you lack restaurant experience, but you give no related strengths or skills. The interview availability is also difficult to interpret because it is linked to taking your daughter to school. The purpose is recognisable, yet the request and key information remain unclear or only minimally developed. To improve, state your current situation directly, give specific qualities or experience that suit the role, and clearly offer an interview time.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 3.0

There is a basic sequence of ideas: your employment situation, your family circumstances, and your availability for an interview. However, these points are combined in one long, largely unpunctuated block, so the reader has difficulty following how one idea leads to the next. Repeated references to being worried and asking to be employed also interrupt progression rather than adding new information. Connections such as “because” and “and” are used, but they do not make the relationships between ideas consistently clear. Organise the letter into short paragraphs, with one focused on your current situation and suitability and another on interview availability. Use clear sentence boundaries and a simple closing to make the message easier to follow.

Lexical Resource: Band 4.0

Your vocabulary is basic and repetitive, and frequent spelling and word-choice errors strain the reader’s effort. For instance, “employer” appears where you seem to mean “employee” or “employment,” while “resturent” and “unemployer” make key details harder to understand. You do communicate a few relevant ideas using words such as “earn,” “family,” and “interview,” but there is little vocabulary specific to applying for restaurant work. Build a small set of accurate phrases for this context, such as “customer service,” “reliable,” and “available for an interview.” Check spelling carefully and choose the exact word needed; this will make your meaning clearer without requiring unusually advanced vocabulary.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 4.0

The response relies on very limited sentence patterns, and frequent errors in sentence construction, verb forms, articles, and punctuation sometimes distort the meaning. For example, “i curently not doing” is missing a correctly formed verb phrase, while “i am one person in my home to earn money” does not clearly express the intended relationship between you and your family. Several ideas run together without full stops, making it difficult to identify where one sentence ends. There is an attempt to connect clauses with “because” and “and,” but these structures are not controlled consistently. Practise accurate simple sentences first—for example, “I am currently unemployed”—then combine related ideas with clear punctuation.

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