Band 4.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 4.0 · Cambridge IELTS 11 · 2026-10-04

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

The take below gives information about the underground railway systems in six cities.

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

Underground Railway Systems

City	Date opened	Kilometers of route	Passengers per year (in millions)
London	1863	394	775
Paris	1900	199	1191
Tokyo	1927	155	1927
Washington DC	1976	126	144
Kyoto	1981	11	45
Los Angeles	2001	28	50

Student answer (Band 4.0)

Here in the table Underground Railway Systems lounched in Differents Cities in the word like London, Paris and Tokyo etc.

Underground Railway System is very digitals tool based projects.Butt the given table show that Underground Railway Systems lunched in different cities in the word such as London, Paris, Tokyo, Washington DC, Kyoto and Lon Angeles with Date opened, Kilometers of route, and Passengers per year(in millions).

On the other hand, Underground Railway Systems is a crucial project for every country becasue it is a very professional technologies based project.Here in the table some cities of the words that perform the system of Underground Railway Sytems such as London, Paris, Tokyo, Washington DC, Kyoto and Lon Angeles.In the table also perform the different activies like opened date, kilometer of route and passengers per year(in millions).In london that project lunched in 1863, in paris that prject lunched in 1900.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 3.0

The response fails to adequately cover the requirements of the prompt and falls short of the minimum length requirement, containing 147 words instead of the required 150. The student provides a very minimal response that attempts to describe the table of underground railway systems, but the data is handled poorly with repetitive introductions and a lack of proper reporting of the main features or comparisons. Ideas are extremely limited and under-developed, resulting in a response that only touches upon the task tangentially without giving a proper overview of the cities, dates, routes, or passenger numbers.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 3.5

Information and ideas are not arranged coherently throughout the text. The response lacks a clear overall progression, and the structuring of paragraphs is very poor, with the writing divided into repetitive introductory blocks that simply restate the prompt in slightly different ways rather than building a logical body of information. Cohesive devices are either missing or used inadequately, such as repetitive use of phrases like 'Here in the table' and 'In the table', which fails to guide the reader smoothly through the data points.

Lexical Resource: Band 4.0

The vocabulary used is very basic and repetitive, frequently relying on simple words from the prompt like 'table', 'cities', and 'system'. There are numerous spelling and word-choice errors that stem from a restricted range of vocabulary, such as 'lounched' instead of launched, 'Differents' instead of different, 'word' instead of world, 'digitals' instead of digital, and 'Butt' instead of But. These lexical limitations and errors are noticeable and often strain the reader's ability to fully understand the intended meaning of the sentences.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 4.5

The grammar demonstrates a very limited range of structures, with frequent errors that cause difficulty for the reader. There are persistent issues with basic sentence formation, verb tenses, and agreements, such as 'Underground Railway System is very digitals tool based projects' and 'In the table also perform the different activies'. Simple sentence patterns dominate, and attempts at more complex structures are faulty or incomplete, while punctuation and capitalization also show frequent inaccuracies.

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