Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.0 · IELTS Complete Catalyst · 2026-09-15

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

The pie charts below show responses by teachers of foreign languages in Britain to a survey concerning why their students are learning a foreign language. The first chart shows the main reason for learning a foreign language. The second chart shows how many teachers felt that there has been a recent change in the reason.

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

% of teachers reporting the following as most common reason for learning:

Student answer (Band 5.0)

The two pie charts illustrates answers by teachers of foreign languages in britain to a survey concerning why their students are learning a foreign language. The first chart present the main cause for learning a foreign language. The other chart shows how many teachers felt that there has been a recent change in the reason.

Overall, the first pie chart show most common reason for learning foreign language. Travel is the bigest reason for learning it made up the highest amount of the total.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response — Band 4.0

The student has failed to meet the minimum word length requirement of 150 words, writing only 84 words. As a result, the response is severely underdeveloped and incomplete. While the writer successfully identifies the general topic of the two pie charts regarding teachers' responses in Britain, only the first chart is briefly mentioned, and the second chart is completely ignored in terms of data description. There is no comprehensive overview, and key features or comparisons from the charts are missing. According to the band descriptors, responding to the task only partially and failing to reach the required length places this response at Band 4.0 for Task Achievement.

Coherence and Cohesion — Band 5.0

The text is organized into two very brief paragraphs, attempting an introduction and a rudimentary overview. However, because the response stops abruptly after only a few sentences, there is no real logical progression or development of ideas. Paragraphing is inadequate due to the extreme brevity of the text. Cohesive devices are minimal, with simple referencing like 'The other chart' used at the beginning. Overall, the arrangement shows some basic structural awareness, but the lack of sufficient content makes higher cohesive organization impossible to demonstrate, fitting the Band 5.0 descriptor for mechanical and limited cohesion.

Lexical Resource — Band 5.0

The vocabulary used is basic and repetitive, with words like 'learning', 'foreign language', 'chart', and 'reason' repeated multiple times across the short text. There are also spelling errors ('illustrates' versus 'illustrates' in correct form not used, lowercase 'britain', and spelling 'bigest' instead of 'biggest'). While the vocabulary is adequate to convey the simple topic at hand, it lacks flexibility and precision, and contains noticeable spelling and word choice errors, which aligns with the Band 5.0 descriptor for lexical resource.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy — Band 5.0

The student attempts a mix of simple and complex sentence forms, such as 'The first chart present the main cause for learning a foreign language.' However, there are noticeable grammatical errors, such as subject-verb agreement issues ('The two pie charts illustrates', 'The first chart present') and capitalization errors ('britain'). Although these errors do not completely impede communication, the limited range of accurate structures and the presence of basic grammatical mistakes mean the response fits comfortably at Band 5.0.

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