Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.0 · IELTS Momentum Workout · 2026-11-05

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 given buttery chart illustrate average hours per week women spend in selected activites according to their age and educational attainment in 2009. The unit are measured in hours.

overall, older age group 75 and above like to spend most of their time in leisure and sports activities with 57.7 hours, whereas teenager spend less time on household activities. High school diploma women spend 43.7 hours which is highest among other educational group. All the educational women spend less time in houslehold activities which is around 18.7 hours.

teenager group 15-19 age women spend 6.9 hours in working activites and their most of the time was soend on leisure and sports activties with 36.8 houes with 6 hours in household activites. Middle age group from 20-24 and 25-34 spend more time in lesisure activties with 32.7 hours . 65 to 74 age women spend least time on work related activites.

high school diploma spend 20 hours in household activities and bachelore degree or ghigher spend 15.2 hours in household actvities which is least with other catageries. Futhermore, high school graduates and some college women give 38.9 and 32,4 hours to sports activites. bachelore degree and some college women spend more time on lesire activites

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.0

You identify relevant features, including the high leisure figure for the oldest age group and the low household figure for teenagers, and you include several comparisons across age and education. However, the overview is not consistently accurate: women aged 75 and over recorded 51.7 hours of leisure, not 57.7, and the highest educational-group figure was 43.1 hours for women with less than a high-school diploma, not 43.7 for high-school graduates. The claim that all educational groups spent around 18.7 hours on household activities also obscures the range from 15.2 to 20.0. Some comparisons are incomplete or unclear, so the main patterns are only partly conveyed. Select the clearest trends and report the figures precisely.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.0

The response has a basic paragraph structure, moving from an introduction and overview to age-group and education details. This gives the reader some organisation, and words such as “whereas” and “Furthermore” attempt to connect ideas. However, progression is limited: the overview mixes age and education findings without a clear hierarchy, and the later paragraphs do not consistently group comparable data. For example, the sentence about “Middle age group from 20-24 and 25-34” gives only one leisure figure, making the comparison difficult to follow. Some links are also unclear, as in the final sentence about degree holders and leisure. Organise the body into clear age and education sections, and use comparisons that explicitly identify each group.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

You use some relevant task vocabulary, including “average hours,” “working activities,” “household activities,” and “educational attainment,” so the topic is generally recognisable. However, the range is limited and several spelling and word-choice errors make parts harder to read, such as “buttery chart,” “activites,” “houes,” “lesisure,” and “catageries.” Some phrases are also imprecise or unnatural, including “like to spend” and “give … hours to sports activities.” Use neutral reporting language and accurate activity labels, and check spelling carefully. More precise terms such as “spent,” “recorded,” and “leisure and sports” would help you describe the data clearly without implying preference.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempt both simple statements and longer comparisons, but the range of sentence structures is limited and errors occur frequently. Subject–verb agreement is inconsistent in “The given … chart illustrate” and “The unit are measured”; articles and plural forms are also missing or inaccurate. Tense shifts appear in “women spend” followed by “their most of the time was spent,” and several sentences lack clear grammatical relationships between their parts. Capitalisation at the start of paragraphs and punctuation around figures are inconsistent as well. These errors sometimes make the intended comparison difficult to interpret. Practise accurate present or past reporting forms, agreement, and complete sentence patterns before adding more complex clauses.

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