Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.0 · IELTS Momentum Workout · 2026-10-07

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)

Overall. this charts illustrates the total hours per week spent by women on activities such as work or work related, houehold ,sports and leisure according to their age ad education in 2009. It showed that the highest percentage of women irrespective of their age and qualification spent most of their time on leisure and sports.

It was seen that from early age of 15-24, they spent 32-37 hours per week doing sports and leisure activities which ultimately decline in elder age groups when women gets mature.They tedn to focus more of their time on career and buildig their homes creating a stable lifestyle but as they got ito older ages their trend increase eventually upto 44 hours per week.

It was clear from the graph women having no education or less education have no interest in job or work activities as compared to educated women. While, the wome irrespectiive of their educatioal backgroud spent most of their times on leisure and sports.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 4.5

You identify a valid overall feature: leisure and sports take the most time for most groups, and you note that this figure rises again among older women. However, the response only partially reports the chart’s main information. It gives a broad age comparison but omits the important pattern in work: hours peak at about 26–27 among women aged 25–54, then fall sharply. The education comparison is also inaccurate: saying women with less education have “no interest” in work is an unsupported explanation, and the figures show a difference in hours, not interest. Household activity trends, which rise with age and vary by education, are largely missing. Select key trends and support them with accurate figures rather than inferred motives.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.5

The response has a recognisable sequence: an opening overview, a paragraph about age, and a final point about education. This gives the reader some organisation, and phrases such as “It was seen” and “While” attempt to connect ideas. However, progression is limited because the age paragraph combines leisure trends with unsupported claims about career and home-building, while the education paragraph repeats the leisure overview instead of developing a clear comparison. The opening also lacks a distinct, concise overview of the main patterns across both categories. Group the age data and education data separately, and use clear comparisons such as “by contrast” or “whereas” to show how the three activities differ.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

You use some relevant chart vocabulary, including “hours per week,” “age groups,” “education,” and “leisure and sports,” so the topic is generally understandable. However, the range is limited and several word choices or collocations are inaccurate, which sometimes makes the meaning unclear. For example, “highest percentage” is unsuitable because the chart reports hours, and “no interest in job or work activities” interprets the data rather than describing it. There are also noticeable spelling errors, including “houehold,” “tedn,” and “buildig.” Aim for precise reporting language such as “spent more time on,” “increased,” and “declined,” and check spelling carefully.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempt both simple and more extended sentences, including a clause beginning “as they got into older ages,” and the overall meaning can usually be followed. However, control is inconsistent, with frequent errors in agreement, verb forms, articles, and sentence construction. For instance, “this charts illustrates” has disagreement, “when women gets mature” uses an incorrect verb form, and “their trend increase” has a subject–verb error. The sentence beginning “It was clear from the graph women…” also needs a linking structure, such as “It was clear from the graph that…”. Full stops and commas are sometimes misplaced, including after “Overall.” Practise accurate simple sentences first, then build complex comparisons with correct clauses.

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