Band 4.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer
Overall Band Score: 4.0 · Cambridge IELTS 18 · 2026-09-30
IELTS Writing Task 1 question
The chart below shows the number of households in the US by their annual income in 2007, 2011 and 2015.
Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.
Student answer (Band 4.0)
The given bar illustrates proportion of households with their year of income in US from 2007, 2011 and 2015. Moreover, provided data represented houses in millions and income in thousands dollars.
Overview, The peoples who have income more then tenthousands are highest in initialed year. whereas, people with 75,000 dollars recoarded lowest in that year. The 100,000 dollar once showed the suden surge tell end with other data with some up and dowen. However 50,000 group haved not cruci
AI examiner evaluation
| Criterion | Band |
|---|---|
| Task Achievement / Task Response | 4.0 |
| Coherence and Cohesion | 4.0 |
| Lexical Resource | 4.0 |
| Grammatical Range and Accuracy | 4.0 |
| Overall | 4.0 |
Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 4.0
The response is severely under-length, containing only 79 words against the minimum requirement of 150 words. Because of this, the student fails to select and report all main features or make adequate comparisons. The writing stops abruptly mid-sentence ('However 50,000 group haved not cruci'), meaning parts of the chart are completely unaddressed and the overview is incomplete and disjointed. Based on the official descriptors for being well under the word limit and failing to fully develop the task, this criterion is awarded a band score of 4.0.
Coherence and Cohesion: Band 4.0
The text lacks clear overall progression and proper paragraphing. While the student attempts an overview introduction ('Overview, The peoples...'), the information is presented in a very fragmented and incoherent manner. Cohesive devices are either missing or misused, such as abrupt transitions ('Moreover', 'whereas'). Furthermore, the response is incomplete, breaking off mid-thought at the end, which prevents any logical flow or structural cohesion from being maintained. This corresponds to a band score of 4.0.
Lexical Resource: Band 4.0
The vocabulary used is very basic, repetitive, and plagued by severe spelling and word-choice errors. Examples include 'recoarded' instead of recorded, 'suden' instead of sudden, 'tell' instead of till/until, and 'dowen' instead of down. The student attempts some topic-related vocabulary such as 'proportion', 'households', and 'income', but the frequent inaccuracies and non-standard collocations significantly strain the reader and obscure the meaning, aligning with a band 4.0 descriptor.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 4.0
Grammatical control is extremely weak throughout the short text. There are numerous basic errors in tense usage, prepositional phrases, and sentence structure, such as 'The given bar illustrates proportion of households with their year of income in US', 'The peoples who have income...', and 'haved not cruci'. Complex structures are attempted unsuccessfully, and frequent grammatical errors impede communication and distort intended meanings. This level of control reflects a band score of 4.0.
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