Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.5 · Cambridge IELTS 20 · 2026-10-02

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 Rohit,

i hope you are doing well and i want to organise an events with college friends because these days everyone are busy in our life to make sucess in our life so they have not connect with each other so it is best way to meet with each other in events.I will decide to organise events in community hall which is very popular in our cities. Along with this, it can opportunities for them to not only spend time with each other but also get relief from the work. I want to organise small party with different arrangements including different dishes, music and games that helps them to remember past memories.

I will really appericiate for you to help me to organise reunion party and help me to find connects of classmats so i would arrange partiesand games according to that person who attend it. I hope we will meet as soon as.

Yours lovely,

Gagn

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0

You successfully covered all parts of the prompt by mentioning the type of celebration event you would like to organise, explaining why it would be good to celebrate in this way, and describing the help you need. For instance, you clearly stated your intention to host a small party in a popular community hall and asked your friend for assistance in finding contacts of classmates. However, some ideas remain under-developed or briefly touched upon, such as the specific details of the games and dishes, which prevents the response from achieving a higher score. The tone is appropriately informal and friendly for a general letter format.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.5

Your letter has an overall coherent arrangement and a clear purpose from the beginning, addressing Rohit directly. However, the organisation suffers from a lack of clear paragraphing, as the text is clumped together into large blocks of writing rather than distinct paragraphs for each bullet point. Furthermore, cohesive devices are sometimes mechanical or missing, and referencing is not always clear, such as in sentences like 'according to that person who attend it,' which disrupts the logical flow and progression of your ideas.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

You used an adequate range of vocabulary suitable for the task, attempting some less common words and phrases like 'community hall' and 'reunion party'. However, there are noticeable spelling and word-choice errors, such as 'appericiate', 'connects', and 'classmats', as well as awkward phrasing like 'find connects'. These lexical errors do not seriously impede communication, but they restrict your vocabulary score because control over word forms and spelling is inconsistent.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempted a mix of simple and complex sentence forms, demonstrating some ability to link clauses with conjunctions and relative pronouns. However, there are several errors in grammar and punctuation, including subject-verb agreement issues ('everyone are busy', 'person who attend'), awkward tense shifts ('i want to organise... I will decide'), and missing capitalisation and punctuation marks. While these errors rarely impede overall communication, they represent a recurring pattern of mistakes that keep the grammatical score at this level.

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