Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.0 · Cambridge IELTS 14 · 2026-10-23

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 three pie charts compared the percentage in typical meals of three of nutries namely; sodium, saturated fat and added sugar, which may be not healthy if indivisual eaten in high quantity.

Overall, in most of the year people consumed fats food at dinner time. Wherese, in sodium and saturated fat ceteogreys most of the indivisual consumed unhealty food at dinner and lunch time and the added sugar most people eated fat food at snacks and dinner time.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 4.0

You identify the three nutrients and attempt an overall comparison, noting that dinner is prominent for sodium and saturated fat and that snacks are important for added sugar. However, the response reports almost none of the chart’s specific figures, and the claim that people consumed “fats food” is not an accurate description of what the percentages measure. The overview is also unclear: sodium is highest at dinner (43%), saturated fat at dinner (37%), while added sugar is highest in snacks (42%), not dinner. The response addresses the task only minimally, and the required minimum of 150 words is not met. To improve, give a clear overview and support it with accurate figures and comparisons across meals.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.0

There is a basic attempt to organise the response: the first sentence introduces the charts, and the second begins with “Overall” to present a summary. This gives the reader a simple starting structure. However, the response ends after these two sentences, so there is no clear progression from an overview to supporting details or comparisons. The linking words “Whereas” and “and” do not make the relationships between the points clear, and the long second sentence combines several ideas without separating them. Develop distinct paragraphs for the overview and key details, then use clear links such as “By contrast” to compare the meal categories.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

The response uses a small amount of relevant vocabulary, including “percentage,” “sodium,” “saturated fat,” “added sugar,” and “Overall,” so the topic is recognisable. However, the range is limited and several noticeable spelling and word-choice errors make parts difficult to understand: “nutries,” “indivisual,” “ceteogreys,” and “eated.” Phrases such as “fats food” and “unhealty food” are also inaccurate for describing chart percentages; the charts show nutrient shares in meals, not whether people ate unhealthy food. Use precise terms such as “proportion,” “accounted for,” and “highest share,” and check spelling and collocations before finishing.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempt both a complex introductory sentence and a longer sentence beginning with “Overall,” showing some effort to connect ideas rather than relying only on short statements. However, the structures are limited and errors recur. In “three of nutries,” the noun phrase is incomplete, while “which may be not healthy if indivisual eaten” has an unclear subject and faulty clause structure. The second sentence also shifts awkwardly between “people consumed” and “most people eated,” and its comparisons are not formed clearly. Practise accurate simple comparison patterns first—for example, “Dinner accounted for 43% of sodium”—then combine them with clauses such as “whereas snacks had the largest share of added sugar.”

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