Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.5 · Cambridge IELTS 21 · 2026-10-06

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

The plans below show a college cafe before it was redesigned and how it looks now.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The plans below show a college cafe before it was redesigned and how it looks now.

Student answer (Band 5.5)

The blurptint below illustrate college cafeteria area before it was redesigned and how it looks currently after reconstruction.

Overall,whole design have been changed and new setting arrangement had been made outside, new facalities have been introduced in both inside and outside of the cafe.

Before construction,There were only minimal facilities like there was a kitchen,serving area where all fodd and drinks are served and only two staff dinning rooms along with toilets and recycling bins in front of rest rooms.

After construction wide range of new facalities are added staff dinning rooms are replaced by take way food service and a coffee bar a new area inside cafe is added which is salad bar and location of bins and washroom remains in same place as before.Outside of a cafe open space sitting arrangement is made and option of barbecue can be accessed by all before entering a cafe in both design tables and chairs remains constant in middle of the cafetria.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0

The response addresses all parts of the task by summarizing the main features of the college cafe before and after the redesign, and includes some comparisons such as the tables and chairs remaining in the middle. However, some areas are under-developed or lack precision. For example, the writer mentions bins and washrooms remaining in the same place, but misses specific details regarding the new salad bar placement along the western wall and the exact nature of the outdoor seating and barbecue additions. Note that eight words were copied from the prompt and excluded from the word count, though the final tally still successfully clears the minimum requirement.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.5

The writing demonstrates a coherent overall arrangement with a logical progression from the original layout to the modern version. However, cohesion is sometimes faulty or mechanical. The text suffers from run-on sentences and a lack of proper punctuation to separate distinct ideas, such as in the sentence beginning with 'Before construction, There were only minimal facilities...'. Paragraphing is attempted with a brief overview followed by body paragraphs, but referencing and linking words are basic, making the flow somewhat choppy.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

The vocabulary used is adequate for the task, attempting some less common items like 'reconstruction', 'facilties', and 'arrangement', but this is offset by frequent spelling errors ('blurptint', 'fodd', 'dinning', 'facalities', 'take way', 'cafetria') and word-choice slips. While communication is not severely impeded, these lexical inaccuracies prevent the score from rising higher. The range is minimally sufficient to convey the intended changes in the floor plans.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 4.5

The response shows a mix of simple and complex sentence forms, but control over grammar and punctuation is weak. There are frequent errors in verb tense consistency, subject-verb agreement, and article usage, such as 'Overall,whole design have been changed' and 'Outside of a cafe open space sitting arrangement is made'. Punctuation is largely neglected, resulting in comma splices and run-on structures that place strain on the reader, keeping the accuracy level constrained.

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