Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.0 · IELTS Complete Catalyst · 2026-09-30

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 pie charts illustreate the most common reasion for learning foreign languages by students and the changes in persentage for those reasion in britain.

Overall, travel and business perpose are the main reasion for learning foreign languages. These account more then 50% of the all all reasions. Foreign partner is the less reasion to learn new languages.

Travel is the most common reasion for learning new languages. It is accont 33% with first position. Followed by 26% for business and work perpose at second pesition. Buying property overseas account 19%. The reasion for social contacts and personal devlopment make up 7% each. General interest and foreign partner with 5% and 3% respectivly.

In recent years, learn foreign language for travel become less reasion dropped from 33% to only 3%. The most comment reasion is buying property overseas with 34%. The reasion for business and work perpose slightly dropped from 26% to 19%. General interest ross with 1% from 5% to 6%. Reasion for social contacts increase and accounte 15%.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.0

The student attempts to address both parts of the task by reporting data from the two pie charts regarding the most common reasons for learning foreign languages and the recent changes in trends. An overview is attempted in the second paragraph ('Overall, travel and business perpose are the main reasion...'). However, there are significant misinterpretations of the data, particularly in the fourth paragraph where the student confuses the category 'no change' or misreads the percentage comparisons (e.g., stating that travel dropped from 33% to 3% when the second chart shows the 'recent increase' figures). Some key features are inaccurately described or lack precision. Consequently, the task is only partially addressed, aligning with a Band 5.0.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.0

The response is organized into four paragraphs, including a brief introduction and an overall summary. However, the logical progression is frequently disrupted by poor referencing and unclear relationships between ideas. Cohesive devices are minimal and often misused or mechanical (e.g., 'Followed by 26%', 'In recent years...'). Paragraphing is attempted, but the grouping of data lacks a clear cohesive structure, particularly in the body paragraphs where sentences are disjointed. Referencing across sentences can be ambiguous, which makes following the comparisons difficult. This level of organization and cohesion corresponds to a Band 5.0.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

The vocabulary used is basic and repetitive, with frequent misspellings and word-form errors that strain the reader. Examples of errors include 'illustreate', 'reasion', 'persentage', 'perpose', 'less' instead of 'least', 'ross' instead of 'rose', and 'accounte'. While the student attempts some less common terms like 'personal development' and 'buying property overseas', the pervasive spelling and lexical errors prevent the score from rising higher. The range is minimally adequate for the task, reflecting a Band 4.5, rounded to 5.0 based on positive achievement of basic topic-related vocabulary.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

The response displays a very limited range of sentence structures, relying primarily on simple sentences and flawed attempts at complex or passive constructions (e.g., 'These account more then 50% of the all all reasions', 'learn foreign language for travel become less reasion'). Grammatical errors are frequent throughout the text, including subject-verb agreement errors, tense inconsistencies ('ross with 1%', 'become less reasion'), and missing prepositions or articles. These errors occasionally cause difficulty for the reader and restrict the grammatical performance to a Band 4.5, rounded to 5.0.

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