Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.5 · Cambridge IELTS 20 · 2026-10-28

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 Mehak,

I am writing to invite you on my son's birthday party. It would be a great Opportunity to meet with you and all of our collage friend whom i am inviting since it has been ten years of our meeting. Nowadays everyone is busy in their own life but it would be great of we get some time for us as well. Furthermore, i will introduce you to my son who wanted to see you because i am always showing our college pictures to him. Moreover, i will add some pictures of our memories on the screen of that day.

Adding to this, I need your help to organise this event because i know you are very good in this skill for organising events. I want you to make some videoes so we can add on screen. I hope you will definitely come and get some time for us from your busiest schedule. we will happy to see you.

Yours truly

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.0

You address the main purpose of writing to a college friend and explain that you want to bring former classmates together after ten years. You also give a reason—everyone is busy and you would like to reconnect—and ask Mehak to help by making videos. However, the proposed event is unclear: you say it is your son’s birthday party, rather than clearly describing a reunion celebration, and the birthday detail distracts from the anniversary. The help requested is also quite limited, with no practical organising tasks beyond making videos. Make the event and its connection to the college anniversary explicit, then develop the reason and request with specific details.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.5

The letter follows a broadly understandable order: you introduce the invitation, explain why meeting would be worthwhile, and then ask for help. Linking expressions such as “Furthermore,” “Moreover,” and “Adding to this” help connect points, and the closing makes your hope that Mehak will attend clear. However, the progression is weakened by the shift from a ten-year college reunion to your son’s birthday, and several ideas are crowded into one long opening paragraph. Some connectors feel mechanical rather than showing a precise relationship between ideas. Separate the event details, reasons, and request into clearer paragraphs, and use simpler links where appropriate to make the sequence easier to follow.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

You use enough everyday vocabulary to communicate the invitation and your request, including “memories,” “pictures,” and “organise this event.” However, the range is limited and some word choices or collocations are noticeably inaccurate, which can make the message less natural. For example, “invite you on my son’s birthday party” does not express the intended invitation naturally, and “good in this skill for organising events” is awkward. There are also spelling and form errors such as “collage” and “videoes.” Choose more precise reunion-related vocabulary and check spelling and common word partnerships; this will make the letter clearer and more fluent.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You attempt both simple and longer sentences, including a reason clause in “since it has been ten years” and a relative clause in “my son who wanted to see you.” The main message is generally understandable, but errors in sentence construction, verb forms, agreement, and punctuation remain noticeable. For instance, “it would be great of we get some time” has an incorrect conditional pattern, while “we will happy to see you” is missing a verb. Capitalisation is inconsistent in “Opportunity” and “i,” and the final sentences need clearer punctuation. Practise accurate conditional forms and complete verb phrases, then proofread each sentence for subjects, verbs, and sentence boundaries.

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