Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.0 · Cambridge IELTS 13 · 2026-10-28

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

The chart below shows the percentage of households in owned and rented accommodation in England and Wales between 1918 and 2011.

Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

Student answer (Band 5.0)

The bar graph depicts information about percentage of households owned and rented housing in England and wales between the period 1918 to 2011.

Overall it is clearly seen that households rented in 1918 is highest at 75 and rented is drooped 2011 is at 35 . The owned is lowest in 1918 it is at 20 but it is rise 2011 at 65.

Turing to the details the highest point was reached by owned at 65

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 4.0

You identify the chart’s subject and give a basic overview of the opposing trends: renting falls while ownership rises. However, the response addresses the task only minimally. The overview says renting is highest in 1918 and ownership is lowest, but the figures are imprecise, and the claim that ownership reaches 65 in the final detail is inaccurate: ownership peaks at about 69% in 2001 before falling to 64% in 2011. The response also stops before describing the intervening years or making useful comparisons across the period. It contains 76 words, so it does not meet the required minimum of 150. To improve, report the main stages and key turning points, using accurate approximate figures.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.0

There is a basic attempt to organise the response: an opening sentence is followed by an overview and then a detail paragraph, with “Overall” and “Turning to the details” signalling these sections. This gives the reader some sense of structure. However, the final paragraph is only a fragment of the report and does not develop a clear progression through the years. Connections between ideas are limited, and the overview’s comparisons are not clearly expressed—for example, “rented is drooped 2011” makes the relationship difficult to follow. Build a fuller sequence by grouping the early, middle and later years, and use clear linking language to show how the two categories change in relation to each other.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

The vocabulary is sufficient to identify the chart topic and its two categories, with phrases such as “bar graph,” “percentage of households,” “owned and rented housing,” and “highest point.” However, the range is limited and some word choices or forms are inaccurate, making parts of the report awkward to understand. For example, “rented is drooped” does not express a decline naturally, and “Turing to the details” appears to be a misspelling of “Turning.” “The owned” is also an unnatural way to refer to households in owned accommodation. Use precise chart language consistently, such as “the proportion of households that owned their homes,” “fell,” “rose,” and “peaked,” while checking spelling and collocations.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You use a few basic sentence patterns, including a present-tense introduction and an overview with contrasting trends. However, the range is limited, and frequent errors in sentence construction and verb forms make several statements difficult to read. In “households rented in 1918 is highest,” the subject and verb do not agree, while “rented is drooped 2011 is at 35” combines clauses without a workable grammatical structure. “The owned is lowest” also lacks a clear grammatical subject, and the final detail, “the highest point was reached by owned at 65,” is incomplete in form. Practise complete sentences with clear subjects and verbs, and use consistent past-tense reporting, for example, “The proportion renting fell to about 36% in 2011.”

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