Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.5 · Cambridge IELTS 21 · 2026-10-30

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 plans below illustrates a college cafe in past and how it looks after redesigned.

It begans from past before the cafe redesigned there are several changes in cafe when it was redesigned. Firstly before redesigned the cafe there was a big hall in which table and chairs are placed for seating area and two dinning rooms for stuff while also had a toilet and bin in the left of entrance. There is a serving area and kitchen next to the staff dinning rooms. After the redesigning there are several changes like outdoor seating area a separate section for barbecue and extent the entrance doors.In big hall there a section of salad bar and upgrade the bin. as recycle bin.The staff dining rooms change into take away food and coffee bar.The serving area named as hot meal.

In Conclusion, there are several changes after redesigning like seating area change of stuff dinner rooms and Upgadation of bin to recycle bin and further other changes are made after redesigned the cafe.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.5

You identify several important changes, including the new outdoor seating and barbecue, the salad bar, the conversion of the staff dining rooms into takeaway and coffee areas, and the change from a general serving area to hot meals. However, the response does not give a clear overview of the main pattern of change, and some details are inaccurate or unclear: the bin was on the eastern wall, not “in the left of entrance,” and the entrance doors were not extended. The statement that the seating area changed is also misleading, as the central tables and chairs remain. To strengthen the report, distinguish what stayed the same from what was added or repurposed, and describe locations precisely.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.5

The response follows a broadly chronological order, moving from the former layout to the redesigned café, and uses basic linking expressions such as “Firstly,” “After the redesigning,” and “In Conclusion.” This gives the reader some sense of comparison. However, the information is crowded into one long paragraph, and the progression between features is sometimes difficult to follow. For example, the sentence beginning “After the redesigning” combines outdoor seating, the barbecue, and entrance doors before moving abruptly to the salad bar. The conclusion repeats general points rather than summarising the overall layout. Use separate paragraphs for an overview and the main comparisons, and group features by location or by what changed and remained.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use relevant vocabulary for describing a plan, including “seating area,” “serving area,” “outdoor seating,” and “recycle bin,” so the reader can identify many of the features. There is also an attempt to use terms such as “separate section” and “redesigning.” However, word choice and spelling are often inaccurate or repetitive, which sometimes makes the description unclear. Examples include “stuff” for staff, “dinning” for dining, “extent the entrance doors,” and “Upgadation.” Some phrases, such as “upgrade the bin,” do not precisely describe the change from a bin to recycling bins. Build a more accurate set of plan-description terms, especially verbs for changes and phrases for locations.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempt to connect ideas in longer sentences, but control of sentence structure and verb forms is inconsistent, and errors frequently make the description harder to understand. For example, “The plans below illustrates” has a subject–verb agreement error, while “It begans from past before the cafe redesigned” has faulty tense and sentence construction. Articles and prepositions are also often missing or misplaced, as in “in left of entrance.” Several sentences are fragments or run together, including “In big hall there a section of salad bar.” Use clear, complete sentences with a consistent past-versus-present comparison: for example, state what the café contained before, then what it contains now. Check agreement, articles, and punctuation when editing.

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