Band 4.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

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IELTS Writing Task 1 question

The bar charts and line graph below show the results of a survey conducted over a three-year period to discover what people who live in London think of the city.

Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information below.

What are the best things about living in London?

Student answer (Band 4.0)

The bar and line graph illustrated the result of survey that conducted for three years about people thought regarding to london city .

Overall the highest of proportions of people were happy because the availibility of range of shops and the lowest for transport.

Availibilty of shops remain stabled in three

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 3.0

The response identifies the topic as a survey about people’s views of London and attempts an overview by naming shops and transport. However, it covers only a small part of the task: it gives no account of the worst aspects or the line graph on litter, air quality and noise, and provides almost no comparisons or supporting figures. The claim that transport was the least popular positive feature is not supported by the chart, which includes a lower, unlabeled category; the unfinished statement about shops also does not explain their changes across the years. The response is 99 words below the required minimum, leaving the report substantially incomplete. To improve, summarise all three visuals and select key figures and trends to support the overview.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 4.5

There is a basic attempt to organise the response: the opening introduces the survey, followed by an overview beginning with “Overall.” This gives the reader a simple starting point, but the report stops before developing a clear sequence of information. The final sentence, “Availibilty of shops remain stabled in three,” is incomplete, so the idea is not connected to a comparison or explanation. There are also no paragraphs or linking expressions to guide the reader through the different charts. A clearer structure would use an introduction, an overview of the main patterns, and separate paragraphs comparing the positive features, negative features and reported problems.

Lexical Resource: Band 4.5

The response uses a few relevant terms, including “survey,” “proportions,” “range of shops” and “transport,” showing some awareness of the topic-specific vocabulary needed for a chart report. However, the range is very limited, and several word choices or forms are inaccurate: “the highest of proportions,” “availibility,” and “stabled” make the description less natural. “People thought regarding to london city” is also an awkward way to express residents’ opinions. Use precise reporting language such as “percentage,” “feature,” “regarded as,” and “remained stable,” and check spelling and collocations. A wider set of terms for describing increases, decreases and comparisons would help convey the chart information more clearly.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 4.5

The response attempts a few sentence forms, including an opening description and an overview introduced by “Overall,” but the grammatical range remains narrow and errors occur in most of the short text. For example, “the result of survey that conducted” is missing an article and has an incomplete passive construction; “people thought” does not form a clear clause in this context. In “Availibilty of shops remain stabled in three,” the subject–verb agreement is incorrect and the sentence is unfinished. These problems make some relationships between ideas difficult to follow. Practise complete sentences with accurate articles, verb forms and agreement, such as “The survey was conducted over three years” and “The proportion remained stable across the period.”

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