Band 4.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

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IELTS Writing Task 1 question

The table shows the number of fatal, serious and slight injuries resulting from gun and knife crime in Great Britain from 1998 to 2007 and the percentage increase for each degree of injury over the period.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

Great Britain - Gun and Knife Crime statistics - 1998-2007

Student answer (Band 4.0)

The provided tabular chart illustrates the information about the amount of fatal , serious and slight injuries resultantly from gun and knife crime in Great Britian from 1998 to 2007.

Overall, the maximum amount of injury was in slight and

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 2.5

The response identifies the table’s subject and begins an overview, noting that slight injuries were the most numerous. However, the overview is left unfinished (“the maximum amount of injury was in slight and”), and no figures, comparisons, or changes over time are reported. As a result, the main features of the table are not meaningfully summarised, and the task is addressed only minimally. The response also falls substantially short of the required 150 words, leaving too little space to select and explain key information. To improve, complete the overview and report the broad rise in total injuries, the much larger increase in slight injuries, and relevant comparisons across the years.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 3.5

There is a basic attempt to organise the response: an opening sentence introduces the table, followed by a separate paragraph beginning “Overall”. This gives the reader a recognisable starting structure. However, the second paragraph stops mid-thought, so there is no completed progression from introduction to overview or supporting details. The conjunction “and” at the end also signals an unfinished continuation. Because the response is extremely brief, it does not demonstrate how information can be grouped or linked across the table. Develop a complete overview and add a paragraph comparing the main trends, using clear links such as “while” or “by contrast” where appropriate.

Lexical Resource: Band 4.5

The response uses some relevant task vocabulary, including “tabular chart”, “fatal”, “serious”, “slight injuries” and “gun and knife crime”, so the topic is generally recognisable. There is also an attempt to describe a key feature with “maximum amount”. However, several choices are inaccurate or unnatural: “amount of … injuries” is less suitable than “number of injuries”, and “resultantly from” is not an appropriate collocation here. “Great Britian” is also misspelled. The very limited response provides little evidence of range or precise vocabulary for describing trends and comparisons. Use standard chart language such as “the table shows”, “the figure for”, “rose”, and “accounted for the largest number”.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 4.5

The opening sentence shows an attempt at a longer structure, and the overview begins with a recognisable sentence pattern: “Overall, the maximum amount of injury was in slight…”. However, the response ends before this sentence is complete, so it does not show control of a full range of sentence forms. In the first sentence, the phrase “injuries resultantly from” is structurally awkward, and the space before the comma in “fatal ,” is incorrect punctuation. The unfinished final “and” also leaves the clause incomplete. These examples limit the evidence available for assessing accuracy and range. Practise complete, direct sentences, for example: “Overall, slight injuries were the most common, while fatal injuries were the least common.”

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