Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.5 · Cambridge IELTS 14 · 2026-11-02

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 5.5)

The pie chart illustrates the average proportion of nutrients like sodium, saturated fat and added sugar consumed from daily meals by people from USA. Excessive consumption of these foods items can also cause negative impact on heath.

Overall, it can be seen that source of these nutrients are come from the food they eat daily in their lunch, breakfast, dinner and snacks. Sodium is something that they consume most as it recored at the first place in high percentage, mostly saturated fat is eaten in dinner that called the second highest nutrient people eat. while main source of added sugar is snacks.

Breakfast always provide the lowest percentage of all these protien as it noticed at 16% in most areas. On the other hand dinner play a dominant role in term of these nutrients in meal at 43%, 37% and 23%, Lunch is recorded for the constent provider of all these items at 29%,25% and 19% in general, While added sugar is recorded at highest level in snacks at 42%.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0

You identify the chart’s subject and give an overview that captures two important patterns: dinner has the highest shares of sodium and saturated fat, while snacks lead for added sugar. You also include several relevant figures, such as dinner’s 43% and 37% and snacks’ 42%. However, some comparisons are unclear or inaccurate: breakfast is not the lowest for every nutrient, since snacks have the same sodium share (14%), and lunch’s saturated-fat figure is 26%, not 25%. The claim that sodium is consumed “most” is also too broad, because added sugar in snacks is 42%, close to dinner sodium at 43%. More precise comparisons across all four meals would make the report more complete and the overview clearer.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.5

The response has a recognisable structure, moving from an introduction to an overview and then to details, and contrast markers such as “Overall” and “On the other hand” help signal relationships. However, progression within the final paragraph is difficult to follow: it shifts from breakfast to dinner, then lunch, and back to snacks in one long sentence. The overview also repeats information that appears again in the detail paragraph, while some links between claims are unclear, as in “Lunch is recorded for the constent provider … While added sugar…”. Use separate sentences to compare meal patterns and group related information—for example, dinner’s high sodium and saturated fat together, then snacks’ high added sugar. This would make the organisation more coherent and cohesion less mechanical.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use some relevant chart-reporting vocabulary, including “average proportion,” “dominant role,” “source,” and “highest level,” so the topic is generally understandable. However, several word choices and collocations are inaccurate or awkward, such as “source of these nutrients are come,” “provider of all these items,” and “foods items.” “Protein” is also not an appropriate label for sodium, saturated fat, and added sugar, which are nutrients. Spelling errors such as “heath,” “recored,” and “constent” are noticeable and reduce precision. Aim for a smaller set of accurate expressions—such as “accounted for,” “share,” and “was highest in”—rather than forcing less natural phrases. This would improve clarity and control.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempt both simple and more extended sentence forms, and the main comparisons can usually be understood. However, errors in verb forms, agreement, articles, and sentence boundaries are frequent enough to make parts of the response awkward. For example, “source of these nutrients are come” has faulty agreement and verb construction; “Breakfast always provide” needs subject–verb agreement; and “dinner play a dominant role” also needs a singular verb. The final sentence joins several independent ideas with commas and inconsistent capitalisation, making the relationships harder to follow. Practise building accurate short comparison sentences first, then combine them with controlled clauses. Check each sentence for a clear subject and verb, and use full stops where the topic changes.

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