Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.0 · IELTS Complete Catalyst · 2026-10-21

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 the percentage between learning foreign languages and the teachers point of view about recent change in reasons.

Overall, the first pie chart describes most common reason for learning is travelling and in second buying property overseas.

32 % travelling was the reason of learning foreign language but recent changes show a huge decrease in demand of travel that is only 3 percent. However , business and work is the major reason of learning with 19% and ratio of buying property overseas is slightly higher that is 34%.

Furthermore, 7% teachers reported personal development and social contact followed by 3% recent increase which declined and 15 % of social contact upward, while general interest and foreign partner have minor difference of 1%.

To sum up, report of teachers about learning languages and recent changes in learning people illustrates fluctuations. In second pie chart 15% teachers showed no changes in people learning.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.0

You identify the broad contrast between the charts: travel is the leading first-chart reason, while buying property overseas is the largest reported recent increase. However, the report only partially covers the data, and some comparisons are inaccurate or unclear. The first figure for travel is 33%, not 32%, and the second chart reports a 3% recent increase for travel rather than explicitly showing a decrease in demand. The statement that business/work is the major reason “with 19%” confuses its 26% share in the first chart with its 19% share in the second. You mention several smaller categories and the 15% reporting no change, but a clearer overview and accurate, chart-by-chart comparisons are needed.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.0

There is some organisation: you begin with an introduction, give an overview, add comparisons, and finish with a concluding sentence. However, the progression is not consistently clear, and the two charts are often mixed within the same sentence. For example, the paragraph beginning “Furthermore” moves from first-chart figures to recent-change figures without clearly signalling which chart each number belongs to. Linking words such as “However” and “while” are used, but the relationships they introduce are sometimes difficult to follow. The final “To sum up” repeats the report’s general idea rather than adding a useful comparison. Group the information by chart or by clear comparisons, and use explicit references such as “In the first chart” and “Regarding reported increases.”

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use some relevant vocabulary for describing charts, including “percentage,” “major reason,” “recent changes,” and “no changes.” This gives you a basic range for the task, but several word choices and collocations are inaccurate or repetitive, which sometimes makes the meaning unclear. For instance, “percentage between learning foreign languages” does not naturally describe what the charts show, and “recent increase … which declined” combines incompatible ideas. “Ratio” is also not the best term for a chart percentage, while “upward” is imprecise when describing a reported share. Aim for precise reporting language such as “proportion,” “accounted for,” “reported an increase,” and “remained unchanged,” and check that each phrase accurately describes the data.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempt both simple and more complex sentences, including comparisons joined with “while” and “however,” but grammatical errors are frequent and sometimes make relationships between figures hard to understand. The opening has a subject–verb agreement error: “The two pie charts illustrates” should be “illustrate.” In “the first pie chart describes most common reason,” the article and sentence structure are incomplete; a clearer form is “the first chart shows that the most common reason…”. There are also inconsistent sentence patterns in “32% travelling was the reason” and “15% of social contact upward.” Punctuation spacing is uneven, particularly before commas. Practise complete, controlled comparison sentences and check agreement, articles, and punctuation.

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