Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.5 · Cambridge IELTS 20 · 2026-11-11

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

It is ten years since you left college. You'd like to organise an event to celebrate this anniversary with all your friends and classmates from college.

Write a letter to one of your college friends. In your letter

• say what kind of celebration event you'd like to organise

• explain why you think it would be good to celebrate in this way

• describe what help you need to organise this event

You do NOT need to write any addresses.

Begin your letter as follows:

Dear ....................................,

Student answer (Band 5.5)

Dear radium,

I hope you doing well. I would like to invite you to help me to organize an event for all the friends that whom we could not meet since we left college.

I want to organize the theme type event and want to invite all the friends. In this event we can arrange a food and music to cheers the mood along with this I am going to plan some activities and games so that we can recreate the whole college time.

I plan this event on Sunday so that no one make excuses of their work.This event help us to meet everybody together.

I want your help to give me the contact details of some the friends because I don't have contact detail of all the friends, my phone broken last month and I have to buy another one. Along with this, I need your music system for this event.

Hoping to hear from you soon

yours lovingly

Parveen

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0

You address all three points in the prompt: you propose a themed gathering with food, music, activities and games; explain that it could recreate college memories and bring everyone together; and ask for classmates’ contact details and a music system. These are relevant, practical ideas, and the purpose of the letter is clear. Some parts are less fully developed, however. For example, you do not explain what the theme would be or how the activities might help classmates reconnect, and the reason for choosing Sunday is only briefly stated. Develop these points with a little more detail, and make the celebration’s purpose and benefits more explicit, to make the response more complete.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0

The letter has a generally clear sequence: you introduce the reunion, describe the event, give a reason for holding it, and then request help. Paragraph breaks also separate the main ideas. Some connections are less smooth or precise, though. The sentence beginning “In this event” combines several plans, while “Along with this” is used to add a request but does not clearly distinguish it from the previous one. The transition from the Sunday plan to the benefit of meeting everyone is also abrupt. Use clearer links between the event details, its purpose and your requests, and ensure each paragraph has a focused role. A conventional closing and consistent letter formatting would also make the organisation feel more polished.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

You use enough vocabulary to communicate the main plans and requests, including “activities and games,” “contact details,” and “music system.” However, the range is limited and several word choices or combinations sound unnatural, which makes the letter less fluent. For instance, “theme type event” is unclear, “cheers the mood” is not the natural expression here, and “recreate the whole college time” does not convey the idea idiomatically. There are also awkward repetitions of “event” and “friends.” Choose more precise phrases for the reunion and its atmosphere, and check common collocations. More natural wording would help you express the same relevant ideas with greater clarity and flexibility.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You attempt both simple and longer sentence forms, and the reader can generally understand your plans. Some grammatical errors remain, particularly with verb forms, agreement, articles and sentence construction. For example, “I hope you doing well” needs an auxiliary verb, and “no one make excuses” requires agreement. In “all the friends that whom,” the relative structure is incorrect; “all the friends whom we have not seen” would be clearer. The sentence about arranging food and music also needs more accurate article use. Practise checking each sentence for a complete verb phrase and subject–verb agreement, while continuing to use longer structures. These corrections would make your meaning more consistently clear.

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