Band 4.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 4.0 · Cambridge IELTS 17 · 2026-09-14

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

The chart below gives information about how families in one country spent their weekly income in 1968 and in 2018.

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

1968 and 2018: average weekly spending by families

Student answer (Band 4.0)

This chart eleborate the compariosion between 1968 and 2018 where famlies spend weekly income. This chart show that in 1968 food are not expensive while in 2018 people serviving life is difficult and too much expensive this reason people not enjoying food in 2018. if we cheak the housing strategy before there not strict condtions in 1968. everyone settle there very easily and buy our own house while according to the chart housing condition show that there goverment is very strict from our rules and regulations thats why now in 2018 peples not buy house easily.if we cheak the condtion about fule and power before in 1968 peoples not feel hard from the pocket money or earn difficult becouse that time earning and expense can manage very easily as compared to 2018. in 1968 clothig and footwear they buy easily beacouse expense and life style they can manage and they always prefer shoping from abroad and when they back our country they did shoping from abroad while in 2018 they not feel comfortable to buy from abroad. now this time transport is very modren and huge of the peopleare prefer to try itself vehicle while in 1968 they were prefer to walk and use cycle for the best physicle activity and for good health

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response — Band 4.0

The student attempts to address the task by discussing categories from the chart such as food, housing, fuel and power, clothing, and transport comparing 1968 and 2018. However, the response falls into the Band 4 or 5 category because the student includes a significant amount of personal opinion, speculation, and unsupported commentary not present in the data (e.g., claiming people in 2018 do not enjoy food, suggesting people shopped abroad, or discussing physical activity and cycling for good health). The main features of the chart, specifically the percentages and proportions spent across different categories, are not accurately or objectively reported. The response is primarily descriptive of a narrative rather than an objective summary of visual data, reflecting limited task fulfillment.

Coherence and Cohesion — Band 4.0

The response suffers severely from a lack of proper paragraphing, as it is written as one single, long block of text. Cohesive devices are very basic, repetitive, and often misused (e.g., repeating phrases like 'if we cheak the condtion' and 'while in 1968'). There is no clear logical organisation or progression of ideas; instead, sentences jump randomly between different categories without clear signposting. Referencing is frequently unclear, making it difficult for the reader to follow the train of thought. Overall, the structural arrangement aligns with the Band 4 descriptors.

Lexical Resource — Band 4.0

The vocabulary used is basic, repetitive, and heavily constrained. There are numerous spelling errors throughout the text, including 'eleborate', 'compariosion', 'famlies', 'show' instead of 'shows', 'serviving', 'cheak', 'condtions', 'goverment', 'peples', 'fule', 'becouse', 'clothig', 'shoping', 'modren', 'physicle', and 'itself'. While the student attempts to use some topic-related vocabulary like 'income', 'housing', 'transport', and 'expense', the high frequency of word-choice errors, incorrect collocations, and pervasive spelling mistakes significantly strains the reader and restricts the lexical score to Band 4.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy — Band 4.0

Grammatical control is weak throughout the response. The text is characterised by a lack of basic sentence boundaries, run-on sentences, and missing verbs or subject-verb agreement errors (e.g., 'food are not expensive', 'there goverment is very strict'). Complex sentence structures are attempted, but they are consistently faulty and confused (e.g., conditional clauses starting with 'if we cheak'). Punctuation is largely neglected, and basic grammatical rules are frequently violated. The frequency and nature of these errors place the response firmly at Band 4.

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