Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.0 · IELTS Momentum Workout · 2026-10-22

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 that how many hours women of different age groups and levels of education spend on some specific primary activities each week.

Overall, women age between 45 to 54 spend highest time in working and work related activities compared to the other groups.Those who are 75 and over 75 years old spend the largest time of their week in leisure and sports. Time on household work were mostly spend by the women age 65 to 74.While women with less than a high school diploma spend largest tine of the week on leisure and sports

Mid age Women from 20 to 54 spend most of their time in working related activities and leisure and sports ranged between 2035 hours per week.While other groups spends most of the time in leisure and sports,women age 15 to 19 accout for 36.4 hours.

In educational attainment high school graduates ,no college women spend most time on leasure and sports which is around 38.9 hours .

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.5

You identify several relevant extremes, including the 75-and-over group’s highest leisure figure and the 65–74 group’s peak in household activities. However, the overview is partly inaccurate: women aged 45–54 do not spend the most time working; the highest age-group figure is 27 hours, shared by those aged 25–34 and 45–54, while women with a bachelor’s degree or higher record 27.4 hours. The claim that women aged 20–54 spend most time in work-related activities is also too broad, since leisure exceeds work for several of these groups. Your discussion of education is limited to one leisure comparison and omits the clear pattern that work rises with educational attainment while leisure falls. Select accurate overall trends and support them with comparisons across both categories.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.0

The response has an opening, an overview, and two detail paragraphs, so there is some basic organisation. However, progression is difficult to follow because the overview combines age and education findings in one long sequence, and the later paragraphs do not develop the chart systematically. For example, the sentence about women aged 20 to 54 moves from work to leisure without clearly explaining the comparison, while the final paragraph gives only one educational figure. Linking is also limited and sometimes awkward, as in “While other groups spends…” and the repeated use of “most time.” Group the age data together, then compare educational attainment, using clear transitions and references so each paragraph has a distinct purpose.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

You use relevant chart vocabulary such as “age groups,” “educational attainment,” “working and work related activities,” and “leisure and sports,” which makes the topic recognisable. However, the range is limited and several word choices or collocations are inaccurate or repetitive. Phrases such as “spend highest time,” “largest tine,” and “household work” are not natural descriptions of the data; “time spent” and “household activities” would be more appropriate. There are also spelling errors, including “leasure” and “accout,” which reduce precision. Aim to vary reporting language with expressions such as “recorded,” “accounted for,” and “rose to,” while checking spelling and using the chart’s category labels consistently.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

The response attempts some longer sentence forms, including a contrast beginning “While,” but control is inconsistent and errors occur frequently. The opening construction “illustrates that how many hours” is ungrammatical; use “shows how many hours” or “illustrates the number of hours.” There are also agreement and verb-form problems in “women age,” “Time on household work were,” and “other groups spends.” Missing spaces after full stops and inconsistent punctuation further affect readability. Most sentences rely on simple patterns, and the attempted complex sentences are often faulty. Practise accurate comparisons using structures such as “Women aged 65–74 spent more time on household activities than…” and check subject–verb agreement and sentence boundaries.

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