Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.5 · Cambridge IELTS 21 · 2026-10-28

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

You rent a flat from an accommodation agency. Your neighbour who rents their flat from the same agency plays very loud video games late at night.

Write a letter to the accommodation agency. In your letter

• explain when the problem began

• describe how the noise affects you

• say what you would like the agency to do

You do NOT need to write any addresses.

Begin your letter as follows:

Dear Sir or Madam,

Student answer (Band 5.5)

Dear sir,

I am writting this lettter to point some serious concernes of building rules that is not in support of noise disturbance which are delivered from my new neighbour next to my door and i found that they also rent this flat from the same company. Thus, it will be great to reach you out to address it.

We moved here two month before and since then we are struggling for our sleeping hours and it effects to kids as well.

Moving forward, we got trouble all nights and our kid's sleep get dsiturbed that result us their health concerns and schedule. While looking for a positive response to have a solution to this problem we got to know that our neighbours are not in favour to be on the same page.

I will appriciate your initiatives to addressed it with a legal notice if needed to proceed it as soon as possible and we can arrange a community meeting where we can discuss this issue and can find an effective solution.

your sincerely,

Navjot kaur

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0

You address all three requested points: you say the issue has existed since you moved in two months ago, explain that it disrupts your family’s sleep and affects your children, and ask the agency to intervene, possibly through a formal notice or a community meeting. The purpose of the letter is clear and the details are relevant. However, the timing is not fully precise: the task concerns loud gaming late at night, but you describe the problem as happening “all nights” without specifying when the gaming began or giving a clear example of its impact. Your requested action is also somewhat broad. State explicitly that the neighbour plays loud video games late at night and ask the agency to contact them and enforce the building’s noise rules.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0

The letter has a recognisable progression: you introduce the complaint, describe its effect, and then request action. Paragraph breaks help separate these stages, and phrases such as “Moving forward” and “While looking for a positive response” attempt to connect ideas. However, some links feel mechanical or do not express the relationship clearly. For example, “Thus, it will be great to reach you out” is an unclear transition into your request, while the second and third paragraphs repeat the effect on sleep. The reference to “our neighbours” also leaves it uncertain whether you mean the single neighbour described earlier. Use simpler, more direct transitions and organise the information so the timeline, impact, and requested action each have a distinct purpose.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You attempt a range of formal complaint vocabulary, including “noise disturbance,” “legal notice,” “initiatives,” and “effective solution,” which shows an effort to use language suited to a letter to an agency. However, several choices are inaccurate or unnatural and sometimes make the message harder to understand: “reach you out,” “on the same page,” and “in favour to be” do not express your intended meaning clearly. Spelling errors such as “writting,” “concernes,” “dsiturbed,” and “appriciate” also reduce accuracy. Aim for precise, familiar collocations rather than formal-sounding phrases, for example, “contact you about the problem” and “the neighbour is unwilling to cooperate.” Proofreading would help make your vocabulary more reliable.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You try to combine ideas in longer sentences, for example with “since then” and “While looking for a positive response,” and the reader can generally follow the main complaint. However, some sentence structures and grammatical forms are faulty. In “it effects to kids as well,” the verb pattern is incorrect, and “our kid’s sleep get disturbed” has problems with agreement and sentence construction. The opening sentence also joins several ideas without a clear grammatical structure, making the relationship between the building rules, the noise, and the neighbour difficult to follow. Use shorter, controlled sentences alongside complex ones, and check subject–verb agreement, articles, and verb patterns. For instance: “The noise affects my children as well. Their sleep is often disturbed.”

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