Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.0 · Cambridge IELTS 14 · 2026-10-17

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

The charts below show the average percentages in typical meals of three types of nutrients, all of which may be unhealthy if eaten too much.

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

Student answer (Band 5.0)

The pie graphs illustrate the average percentages of food eaten by three different sustenance, all of them can cause sickness if eaten very much.These nutrients are sodium, saturated fat and sugar.

Dinner is the most succeeding time for both sodium and saturated fat, however, the intake of sugar declined almost to half .While, breakfast have the least ratio for all three nutrients.

The intake of sodium in snacks is 14% which is incresed to 21% for saturated fats and further inclined to 42% for sugar.The percentages of sodium, saturated fats and sugar in lunch are 29%,26% and 19%. Approximately, dinner contains the biggest intakes of sodium and saturated fats which are 43% and 37%, while sugar is decreased to 23% in dinner.Breakfast contains the average proportion for all three nutrients.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.0

You identify the three nutrients and report several relevant figures, including dinner’s highest sodium and saturated-fat shares (43% and 37%) and snacks’ highest added-sugar share (42%). However, the overview is incomplete and partly inaccurate: breakfast is not the lowest for every nutrient, since snacks also have 14% sodium, and dinner’s sugar share does not “decline” in comparison with another meal unless the comparison is specified. The claim that breakfast has an “average proportion” is also unclear. The response addresses the chart only partially, with limited selection and explanation of the main comparisons. It is also 20 words below the required minimum, leaving less room to summarise the data fully. Add a clearer overview and compare the standout highs and lows accurately.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.0

The response has a basic sequence: it introduces the charts, gives an overview, and then reports figures for snacks, lunch, dinner and breakfast. This gives the reader some organisation, and words such as “however” and “while” attempt to connect comparisons. Nevertheless, progression is not consistently clear: the overview says breakfast is lowest for all nutrients, while the final sentence calls its proportions average. The shift from the overview to individual meal figures is abrupt, and some linking punctuation makes relationships difficult to follow, as in “While, breakfast…”. Group the information more deliberately—for example, compare the meal with the highest shares against the meal with the lowest—and use linking expressions only where their logical relationship is clear.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

You use relevant chart vocabulary such as “percentages,” “intake,” and “proportion,” and the nutrient names are generally recognisable. However, the range is limited and several word choices or collocations are inaccurate enough to make the meaning less clear. “Three different sustenance” is not a natural way to describe the nutrients, “most succeeding time” does not express the highest meal share, and “further inclined” is unsuitable for describing a rise in a percentage. “Sugar” is understandable, but consistently using “added sugar” would be more precise. Spelling errors such as “incresed” also reduce accuracy. Aim for straightforward, precise chart language rather than unusual expressions, and check spelling before submitting.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempt some longer sentences with contrast, such as “Dinner is the most succeeding time for both sodium and saturated fat, however…” and “while sugar is decreased to 23% in dinner.” However, complex sentence attempts are often faulty, and errors occur frequently enough to affect clarity. The opening contains a comma splice between two independent clauses, while “breakfast have” has incorrect subject–verb agreement. Articles and sentence boundaries are also inconsistent, and spaces are missing after full stops in places. The phrase beginning “While” is left as a fragment, and the final comparison would be clearer with a complete, parallel structure. Practise accurate simple sentences first, then combine them with correctly punctuated contrast clauses.

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