Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.5 · IELTS Momentum Workout · 2026-11-01

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 that women from different age groups with different educational backgrounds spend on worked related activities, household activities, leisure and sports.

Most women from all ages seem to put a lot of time aside for leisure and sport activities. Household is the activties that isn't that popular when it is compared to work related activities, leisure and sport activities. The higher the women's education the more time they pour into their work.

Women put a lot of hours aside for leisure en sports, like when we look at women aged 15 to 19 put around 37 hours aside, women 20-24 use about 33 hours, the amount of hourse declined around the age of 25 to 34 to around 28 hours and then it inclined significantly to 44 hours for women aged 75 to 74.

It seems that not a lot of women uses a lot of time for household activties. Women aged 15 to 19 only spend about 6 hours on household activities and the amount of time spend on household activities never ekseeds 22 hours.

It seems that the amount of hours spend on work related asctvities is at its highest in high school, around 19 hours.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 4.5

You identify relevant broad patterns, including leisure as a major activity and household work as comparatively low, and you include several figures for the age groups. However, the response only partially reports the chart: it largely omits the educational-attainment data, despite making a claim about education and work. That claim is also inaccurate: work hours rise with education, but the highest figure is 27.4 hours for women with a bachelor’s degree or higher, not around 19 hours “in high school.” Some age details are misreported: leisure reaches 51.7 hours for women aged 75 and over, not 44 hours, which applies to ages 65–74. A clearer overview and accurate comparisons across both categories are needed.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.5

The response has a basic paragraph structure: an introduction, general observations, and paragraphs about leisure, household activities, and work. This gives the reader some sense of organisation, and phrases such as “when we look at” and “It seems” signal movement between points. However, the progression is not fully controlled. The discussion shifts from age groups to education without clearly separating or developing the two sets of data, and the final work paragraph is very brief. Repeated openings such as “It seems” and repeated references to “hours” make the links feel mechanical. Grouping the age data together, then the education data, and using clearer comparisons would make the report easier to follow.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use enough topic vocabulary to communicate the main subject, including “leisure,” “household activities,” “educational backgrounds,” and “work related activities.” There are also attempts to describe change with “declined” and “inclined.” However, the range is limited and several choices are informal or imprecise for an academic report: “put a lot of time aside,” “pour into their work,” and “isn’t that popular” sound conversational. Some spelling errors, including “activties,” “hourse,” and “asctvities,” reduce accuracy, while “inclined” is not the natural verb for a rising figure. Aim for precise chart language and check spelling carefully.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You attempt both simple statements and longer sentences, for example, “The higher the women's education the more time they pour into their work,” which shows an effort to use a comparative structure. Meaning is generally understandable, but errors recur in agreement, verb forms, and sentence construction. In “the amount of time spend on household activities,” the participle should be “spent,” and “not a lot of women uses” should use a plural verb. The sentence beginning “like when we look at women aged 15 to 19 put…” is structurally incomplete because the clause lacks a clear subject and verb arrangement. There is also an awkward age reference in “75 to 74.” Practise accurate complex sentences and proofread agreement and clause structure.

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