Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.0 · IELTS Momentum Workout · 2026-10-28

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 illustrate the average number of hours that women in different age group and woment with varying levels of education spend on primary activities each week.

Overall the number of leisure activities is highesbin old age group while working and work activities are least common on the other hand household activities slightly fluctuate.

Firstly , The working activities remain unpopular in oldage group between 1.3 hours of doing activity however it remaind the most popular between people of age group under 40 the highes hour of spending on this activity is 27. it remaind moderate in other age group In contrast leisure and sports activities are the highest popular among oldage group of 75 and over and this activity is most doing by less than high schoold degree holder

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 4.5

You identify relevant broad patterns, including the high leisure figure among women aged 75 and over and the low working figure in that age group. However, the response is incomplete and does not adequately summarise the chart: it gives little coverage of household activities or the education categories, and the claim that working is most common among women under 40 overlooks the similar peaks for ages 25–34 and 45–54. The statement about leisure being highest for women with less than a high-school diploma is accurate, but it needs comparison with the other education groups. The response is 112 words, below the required 150, which limits the detail and coverage possible. Add a clear overview and select key figures from both age and education data.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.0

There is a basic attempt to organise the response: an opening statement and overview are followed by a paragraph beginning “Firstly” that discusses working and leisure. This gives the reader some sense of the topics being compared. However, the response ends abruptly, with no developed discussion of household activities or educational attainment, so the progression is incomplete. Connections between ideas are also sometimes unclear: “on the other hand” does not clearly signal the relationship between the overview points, and “In contrast” introduces leisure without a precise comparison. Use separate, purposeful paragraphs for the overview, age-group patterns and education patterns, and link comparisons explicitly—for example, contrast the rise in leisure with the fall in working hours among older women.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

The response uses some relevant chart vocabulary, including “average number of hours,” “leisure activities,” “working activities” and “household activities,” so the topic is generally recognisable. However, the range is limited and several word choices or collocations are inaccurate or awkward, such as “the highest popular,” “most doing” and “old age group.” Spelling errors, including “woment,” “highesbin” and “highschoold,” also make the writing less clear and reduce precision. Aim for standard data-reporting phrases such as “the figure for,” “spent on,” “was highest among,” and “increased with age.” Check spelling carefully and avoid repeating “activity” when a more precise noun such as “leisure time” or “household work” is available.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 4.5

You attempt to combine ideas in longer sentences, for example by using “while” and “however,” but control is weak and the range of sentence structures remains limited. Errors in agreement and verb forms appear in “The bar chart illustrate” and “it remaind,” while missing or incorrect articles and plural forms occur in phrases such as “different age group” and “the highes hour.” Punctuation is also unreliable: there is a space before the comma after “Firstly,” and several ideas run together without clear sentence boundaries. These errors sometimes make relationships between points difficult to follow. Practise accurate simple comparison sentences first, then add subordinate clauses, checking subject–verb agreement, articles, plurals and full stops.

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