Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer
Overall Band Score: 5.5 · IELTS Momentum Workout · 2026-10-03
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 5.5)
The table compares the number of fatal, serious and slight injuries resulting from gun and knife crime in Great Britain between 1998 and 2007 which includes the percentage increase for each degree of injury over the period.
Overall, slight injuries had the highest figures, followed by serious injuries. The least number of injuries recorded was fatal. The total number of crimes increased consistenly throughout the nine-year period. Meanwhile, the percentage of injuries from 1998 to 2007 had climbed dramatically.
The most popular injury was the slight injuries accounted for 653 from 1998 to 1999, and rose steadily until 2007 at 3296. Meanwhile, serious injury was the second most popular started at 162 in 1998. The figures climbed from 1999 to the beginning of 2004; however, the number decreased noticeably between 2004 and 2005 from 437 to 411.
The least popular injury was fatal injury at 49 in 1998, and fluctuated since the number rose and fell started from 1999 to 2007. The proportion of the injuries increased at 18% of fatal injury, 194% of serious injury and 405% of slight injury.
AI examiner evaluation
| Criterion | Band |
|---|---|
| Task Achievement / Task Response | 6.0 |
| Coherence and Cohesion | 5.5 |
| Lexical Resource | 5.5 |
| Grammatical Range and Accuracy | 5.0 |
| Overall | 5.5 |
Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0
The response successfully covers all parts of the task by reporting the main features and making relevant comparisons across the data. An overview is provided, highlighting the general trends and the relative magnitude of different injury types. However, certain details are under-developed or inaccurately described. For instance, the student states that slight injuries 'rose steadily until 2007 at 3296', but the data for 2006-2007 is actually missing from the table, and 3296 represents the 2005-2006 figure. Additionally, the final sentence mixes up the percentage increases for the categories with the overall description of the data. Despite these minor inaccuracies, the core requirements of Task Achievement are met.
Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.5
The response has a coherent overall arrangement with a clear attempt at paragraphing, moving from an introduction to an overview, and then into detailed body paragraphs. However, cohesion is sometimes mechanical or faulty. Transition words and referencing devices are occasionally used awkwardly, such as starting the final paragraph abruptly with 'The least popular injury was fatal injury...' without a smooth logical bridge. Furthermore, the progression between ideas feels slightly disjointed due to errors in referencing specific years and figures, which disrupts the logical flow of the data presentation.
Lexical Resource: Band 5.5
The student uses an adequate range of vocabulary for the task, successfully incorporating terms related to crime statistics such as 'fatal', 'serious', 'slight', 'proportion', and 'fluctuated'. There are, however, noticeable word choice and collocation errors that prevent the writing from achieving a higher band. For example, using the phrase 'The most popular injury' is inappropriate when discussing negative events like violent crime. Other minor inaccuracies include 'consistenly' (spelling) and phrasing like 'The least number of injuries recorded was fatal', which could be expressed more naturally.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0
The response demonstrates a mix of simple and complex sentence forms, attempting relative clauses and participial phrases such as 'resulting from gun and knife crime' and 'which includes the percentage increase'. There are, however, several grammatical errors throughout the text, including tense inconsistencies, missing articles, and awkward syntactic structures (e.g., 'the number rose and fell started from 1999 to 2007'). While these errors do not completely impede communication, they occur with enough frequency to show a lack of consistent control over complex grammatical patterns.
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