Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer
Overall Band Score: 5.5 · IELTS Momentum Workout · 2026-10-02
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 5.5)
The bar graph illustrates the average number of hours spend in each week on primary activities by women according to their age and educational qualification in 2009.
Overall, women with less than a high school diploma certificate spend highest amount on hours in primary activities, women who are over 75 and spend spend highest time on primary activities while teenagers spend lowest.
Women between the age of 15 to 19 spend around 6.99 hours per week on working and work releted activities,36.8 with leisure and sports and 6.0 hours in household activities. Womens with highest spend highest hours in primary activities such as 51.7 hours in leisure and sports and 19.6 in household activities and just 1.3 hours in working and work reletd activities.
The other noticeable trend is that the less educated a women is equal to devour more time on activities, as women with bachelor degree and higher education spend 27$,28.6 and 15.2 hours on various lid of primary activities.
AI examiner evaluation
| Criterion | Band |
|---|---|
| Task Achievement / Task Response | 5.5 |
| Coherence and Cohesion | 5.5 |
| Lexical Resource | 5.0 |
| Grammatical Range and Accuracy | 5.0 |
| Overall | 5.5 |
Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.5
The response addresses the task partially, attempting to present an overview and select features from the chart, but it contains several inaccuracies and unclear interpretations. The writer states that women with less than a high school diploma spend the highest amount of hours in primary activities overall, which misinterprets the data categories, and claims that teenagers spend the lowest amount. Furthermore, there are awkward generalisations and some figures are misquoted or awkwardly integrated, such as referencing '27$,28.6'. While some main features are outlined, the lack of accurate reporting and underdeveloped comparisons prevent the response from achieving a higher band.
Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.5
There is some organisation in the essay, with a basic introduction and attempts to group information, but there is no clear overall progression. Paragraphing is rudimentary and sentences follow each other without smooth logical links. Cohesive devices are minimal, repetitive, or inaccurate, such as starting consecutive sentences abruptly with 'Women between the age...' and 'Womens with highest...'. Referencing and logical sequencing across the body paragraphs are faulty, making it difficult for the reader to follow a cohesive line of argument regarding the dataset.
Lexical Resource: Band 5.0
The vocabulary used is limited and minimally adequate for the task, with noticeable errors in word choice, word form, and spelling that occasionally cause difficulty for the reader. There are frequent lexical slips and non-standard collocations, such as 'spend in each week', 'educational qualification', 'releted' instead of related, 'Womens' instead of women, and 'various lid of primary activities' instead of various kinds. Attempts to use less common vocabulary are unsuccessful due to these inaccuracies, restricting the lexical score to this level.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0
The student uses a very limited range of sentence structures, relying heavily on simple clauses with frequent structural errors. There are frequent mistakes in grammatical forms and articles, including missing prepositions, incorrect verb forms ('spend spend', 'is equal to devour'), pluralisation errors ('a women', 'bachelor degree'), and punctuation slips. Attempts at complex or comparative structures are often faulty, and the frequent grammatical errors can cause some difficulty and strain for the reader throughout the text.
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