Band 5.0 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 5.0)

THE TABULAR DATA SHOW THE NUMBER OF FATAL, MAJOR AND MINOR IMJURIES CONSEUQUENCE KNIFE CRIME IN GREAT BRITTEN FROM 1998 TO 2007 AND THE PERCENTAGE SURDGE FOR EACH DEGREE OF HARM OVER THE TIME.

OVERALL, BY CAREFULLY ANALYZING THE TABULARDATA THAT, CRIME RATE WERE SINGNIFICANTLY INCREASE FOLLOWING YEAR, HIGHEST IN RECENT TIME .

AT BEGANING, FATAL INJUERY IS VERY LEAST COMPARE TO SERIOUS AND SLIGHT CRIME IN FOLLOWING YEAR. THEY WERE AT BEGANING 49 IN A [redacted phone]. IT SIGNUFICANTLLY INCREASE BY FOLLOWING YEAR TILL [redacted phone], 95 CRIME IS HIGEST IN FATAL CATEGORY. AFTER THAT IT DECRESE BY FOLLOWING YEAR AT THE AND IT WAS ONLY 58 IN A [redacted phone]. NOW JUMP ON THE SERIOUS INJUERY, AT BEGANING OF YEAR IT WAS VERY LESS AROUND 160 AFTER THAT IT INCREASE IN FOLLOWING YEAR TILL [redacted phone], IN THIS YEAR IT WAS HIGHEST IT 476.

ON THE OTHER HAND, SLIGHT CRIME RATE IS VERY HIGH COMPARE TO FATAL AND SERIOUS. AT BEGANING YEAR IT WAS 653, AFTER THAT IN INCREASE BY FOLLOWING YEAR TILL [redacted phone], HIGHEST IN TLAST YEAR IT WAS 3296. IT WAS HIGHEST IN NUMBER

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.0

You identify the broad pattern that injury figures rose over the period and correctly note that fatal injuries peaked at 95 in 2001–02 before falling, while slight injuries were much more numerous. However, the response only partially summarises the table: it omits the overall total and the percentage increases, which are important features, and the overview’s claim that crime was “highest in recent time” is too general. Some details are inaccurate or unclear: serious injuries peaked at 476 in 2005–06, but the account does not clearly distinguish this from the earlier rise; slight injuries peaked at 3,424 in 2004–05, not 3,296 in 2005–06. Select the main comparisons, report the correct peak years, and include the substantial overall increase.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0

The response has a recognisable structure: an introduction, an overview, and separate paragraphs discussing fatal/serious and slight injuries. This gives the reader a basic route through the information, and phrases such as “After that” and “On the other hand” signal movement between points. However, progression within paragraphs is sometimes difficult to follow because several trends are compressed into long, loosely connected sentences. The final paragraph also ends abruptly, and “On the other hand” does not express a clear contrast between the injury categories. Use clearer topic sentences, group figures by meaningful trends, and connect comparisons directly—for example, contrast the much lower fatal figures with the rise in slight injuries.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

You attempt vocabulary suited to describing data, including “percentage surge,” “increase,” “decrease,” “highest,” and “category.” This shows some awareness of the language needed for a table summary. However, the range is limited and several choices or spellings make the meaning less clear, such as “crime rate” for injury counts, “very least,” and “highest in number.” There are also frequent spelling errors, including “Britten,” “imjuery,” and “significantly,” which reduce precision. Use accurate terms consistently: the table reports numbers of injuries, not crime rates, and “slight injuries” is preferable to “slight crime.” Check spelling and choose natural collocations such as “rose steadily” and “reached a peak.”

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 4.5

You make some attempts to link events over time, using forms such as “After that it decrease” and “it increase by following year,” but sentence structures are mostly simple or joined in ways that are difficult to control. Errors in verb forms, agreement, articles, and sentence construction occur throughout: for example, “crime rate were,” “fatal injury is,” and “it was highest it 476.” These patterns sometimes make the intended relationship between figures unclear. Practise building accurate past-tense sentences with a clear subject and verb, such as “Fatal injuries rose to 95 in 2001–02, then fell.” Add a few controlled complex sentences using “while” or “whereas,” and check articles and punctuation.

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