Band 4.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 4.5 · IELTS Complete Catalyst · 2026-10-25

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 4.5)

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

Overall, the line graph shows the three-year of major problems that people were facing. Also bar chart shows the best things and worse things that people were facing each year.

Best thing of living is high quality shops, also better job opportunities, museum , art gallaries, transport.And that things were declined gradually.

The worse things about London is cost of living that were increased , traffic congestion also raised, crime become more surged. Whereas cost of housing and also transport also decreased .

Line graph indicate that litter were increased steadily then decreased. Noise quality will remain constant. Noise were declined when the time pass.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 4.0

The response identifies the broad topics—positive features, drawbacks and reported problems—and includes an overview, but it only minimally describes the chart information. Several claims are inaccurate or unclear: the best features did not all “decline gradually” (for example, museums and galleries rose from about 29% to 34.5%), while litter peaked in Year 2 before falling, rather than increasing steadily and then decreasing. The statement that noise “remain[ed] constant” also conflicts with its gradual decline. Important comparisons and figures are largely absent, and the response contains 115 words, 35 below the required minimum; 15 words copied from the prompt were excluded. To improve, report the main rankings and changes accurately, using selected figures from all three visuals.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.0

There is some basic organisation: the opening introduces the visuals, followed by an overview and brief comments on positive features, drawbacks and the line graph. Linking words such as “Overall,” “Also” and “Whereas” show an attempt to connect ideas. However, progression is limited, and the short, list-like statements do not clearly group or compare the information. The final lines repeat the point about noise, and “Also bar chart” does not make clear which chart is being discussed. Use separate, purposeful paragraphs for the overview and the main comparisons, and connect each trend to its category and year so the reader can follow the report more easily.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

The response uses some relevant chart vocabulary, including “survey,” “traffic congestion,” “cost of living,” “declined” and “increased.” This gives it a minimally adequate range for the topic. However, vocabulary is repetitive and several choices are inaccurate or awkward, which can make the intended meaning difficult to follow. For example, “high quality shops” does not accurately express the chart’s “range of shops,” and “crime become more surged” is not a natural collocation. “Noise quality” also confuses the category of noise with air quality. Aim for precise chart language such as “was rated as,” “rose,” “fell” and “remained relatively stable,” and check spelling and word forms.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 4.5

The response attempts a few different sentence patterns, including the contrast introduced by “Whereas,” but most sentences are short and the range of structures is limited. Frequent errors in articles, agreement, tense and sentence construction sometimes obscure meaning. For example, “results of survey” needs an article, “what people who live in London” is an incomplete clause, and “the three-year of major problems” is not a grammatical phrase. In “litter were increased,” the subject–verb construction is incorrect; “Noise quality will remain constant” also shifts to an unsupported future tense. Practise complete sentences with accurate past-tense reporting, and check subject–verb agreement and articles when editing.

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