Band 4.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 4.5 · 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 4.5)

The bar chart shows the aversge number of hours that women in various age groups and wpmen with varying levels of education spend on primary activities each week. The ages given in bar chart are from 15 to over 75. There are 4 types of educational attainment given in bar chart. Less than a high school diploma, high school graduates, no college, some college or associate degree and bachelor's degree & higher.

There are three type of activities given in bar chart with different shades or colors. Working & work related activities, Leisure & sports and household activities.

The age starting from 15 to 19 are more interested in leisure and sports, 6.9% women spends 9 hours on working and work releated activities, 36.8% women spends 30 hours on leisure and sports and 6.0% women spends 5 hours doing household activities.

The age starting from 20 to 24 are also more interested in leisure and sports. 22.1% women spends 18 hours on working and work related activites, 32.7% women spends 30 hours per week on leisure and sports, and only 10.0% women spends 11 hours doing household activities. The age starting from 25 to 34, 27.0% women are doing work or work releated activities 24 hours per week. 28.6% women spends 27 hours per week on leisure and sports. 13.2 spends 12 hours per week doing household activities. The age 35 to 44, 26.3% women spends 24 hours per week doing work and work activities. 27.4% women spends 30 hours per week in leisure and sports. 16.7% women spends 18 hours per week doing household work. The age from 45 to 54, 27.3% spends 27 hours per week doind work and work activities, 32.2% spends 30 hours per week on leisure and sports, and 17.3% women spends 18 hours per week doing household activities. The age age starting from 55 to 64 spends more time on sports and leisure. 20.9% women spends 20 hours per week doing work and household activities, 36.7% spends 36 hours per week on sports and leisureand 18.3% spends 20 hours per week doing household activities. From the age 65 to 74, 6.9% women spends 8 hours per week doind work and work releated activities, 44.0% spends 40 hours per week on sports and leisure, 18.3% spends 21 hours per week doing household activities. From the age 75 & above, 1.3% women spends 1 hour per week doing work and work releated activities, 51.7% women spends 50 hours per week on sports and leisure and 19.6% women spends 19 hours per week doing household activities. Less then a high school diploma of 25 &

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 4.0

You identify the chart’s categories and report many age-group figures, but the response does not provide a clear overview of the main patterns, which is central to this task. It also stops just as the education data are introduced, so that half of the chart is not meaningfully summarised. Several figures are misreported or confused with percentages: for example, 6.9 is described as “6.9%” and then as 9 hours, while the chart gives hours; for ages 55–64, leisure is 36.2 hours, not 36.7, and work is 20.9 hours, not a combined work-and-household figure. Focus on the broad trends—leisure rises among older women, while work peaks in middle age—and accurately compare both age and education groups.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 4.5

The response has some basic organisation: it introduces the chart, names the activity categories, and then moves through age groups in sequence. However, the long series of similar sentences makes the report read like a list of figures rather than a summary with a clear progression. The education section is begun but not developed, and there is no concluding overview to connect the main patterns. Repeated openings such as “The age starting from…” and “From the age…” also make cohesion mechanical. Group related age bands into paragraphs, use comparisons to link them, and reserve space for a concise overview before the detailed figures.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

You use relevant chart vocabulary, including “age groups,” “educational attainment,” “leisure and sports,” and “household activities,” so the topic is generally understandable. However, the range is limited and some wording is inaccurate or repetitive. “More interested in leisure and sports” describes preference, which the chart does not measure; “spends more time on” is more objective. There are also noticeable spelling errors, including “aversge,” “wpmen,” “releated,” and “activites,” alongside inconsistent labels such as “sports and leisure” and “leisure and sports.” Use precise reporting language and check spelling carefully; this will make the comparisons clearer and more appropriate for an academic chart summary.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

The response mainly uses simple sentence patterns, often repeating the structure “X women spends…” and “X women spends…”. Agreement errors are frequent: plural “women” should take “spend,” as in “36.8% women spends,” and some clauses lack a clear subject, such as “13.2 spends 12 hours.” The repeated use of “%” with hours also creates unclear grammatical relationships between the figures and the activity descriptions. There are attempts to combine information with commas and conjunctions, but long sentences sometimes become difficult to follow. Practise accurate subject–verb agreement and use a consistent pattern such as “Women aged 15–19 spent 36.8 hours per week on leisure.”

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