Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.0 · IELTS Momentum Workout · 2026-09-21

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

The bar chart below shows the average number of hours that women in various age groups and women with varying levels of education spend on primary activities each week.

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

Average hours per week women spent in selected primary activities, by age and educational attainment, 2009

Student answer (Band 5.0)

The bar chart illustrates the average number of hours that women in different age groups and women with varying levels of education spend on primary activities each week.

Overall, older women spend more time on leisure and sport activites. Moreover, little girls from eduaction system spend more time on these activities. While, younger females spend more time on work and houshold activities.

In working and work activites, teenagers and older women like 75 and over spend low time in this activity. While, 35 to 54 ages women and bachelor's degree and higher education women spend highest time in work activities. Other groups ages and eduction system spend normal time in work related activities.In leisure and sport activites, older women whose age is between 75 and over spend more time in sport activity at around 51.7 hours per week. By following, less than a higher school diploma girls spend 43.1 hours per week.

In houshold activities, teenage girls spend lowest time in houshold activities around 6 hours a week. While, older women whose age was 65 to 74 spend highest time in household activities around 21.1 hours a week. By following, women from 75 and over spend 19.5 hours per week. In addition, other group of ages and education girls spend a normal time in houshold activities.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response — Band 5.0

The student attempts to cover the main features of the bar chart, categorising information into working, leisure, and household activities. However, there are significant misinterpretations and inaccurate generalisations. For example, the statement that 'older women spend more time on leisure... moreover, little girls from education system spend more time on these activities. While, younger females spend more time on work and household activities' is partly contradictory and factually confused regarding how age and education categories are structured in the chart. Furthermore, phrases like 'spend normal time' are vague and unacademic. The overview is weak and lacks precision, leading to an under-development of key trends. Therefore, the response aligns with Band 5.

Coherence and Cohesion — Band 5.0

The text is organised into separate paragraphs reflecting introduction, overview, and specific activity categories, which provides a basic structural framework. However, the progression between ideas is frequently awkward and lacks clear logical flow. Cohesive devices are used repetitively and sometimes incorrectly, such as 'By following' to introduce data points. Paragraphing is attempted, but internal cohesion within paragraphs suffers from repetitive sentence openings like 'In working and work activites...', 'In leisure and sport activites...', and 'In houshold activities...'. Referencing is sometimes unclear, and the overall progression is mechanical rather than fluid. This corresponds to a Band 5 score.

Lexical Resource — Band 5.0

The vocabulary range is quite limited and repetitive, with frequent misspellings such as 'activites' instead of 'activities', 'eduaction' instead of 'education', 'houshold' instead of 'household', and 'higher school' instead of 'high school'. The student relies heavily on basic words and phrases, repeatedly using 'spend low time', 'spend highest time', and 'normal time', which lack appropriate collocation and lexical precision for an Academic Task 1 response. While the data points themselves (e.g., 51.7 hours, 21.1 hours) are accurately transcribed, the linguistic delivery restricts the score to Band 5.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy — Band 5.0

The student demonstrates a very limited range of grammatical structures, relying primarily on simple subject-verb-object sentences or basic complex structures ('older women whose age is between 75 and over'). There are frequent grammatical errors throughout the text, including tense inconsistencies ('whose age was 65 to 74' mixed with present tense), preposition errors ('spend low time in this activity' instead of 'spend little time on'), and awkward phrasing ('35 to 54 ages women'). Punctuation and article usage are also shaky. Although meaning can generally be extracted, the high frequency of errors places this performance squarely at Band 5.

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