Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.0 · Cambridge IELTS 15 · 2026-11-11

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

The chart below shows the results of a survey about people’s coffee and tea buying and drinking habits in five Australian cities.

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

Student answer (Band 5.0)

The bar chart gives the percentages of a survey about people's coffee and tea buying and drinking habit in sydney,melbourne,bridbane,adelaide and hobart.

Overall, The buying of instant coffee experiend always the highest level except in adelaide , While the other figures showed some fluctuation. However, The percentages present that going to a cafe for coffee or tea is always the most popularin all cities, Whereas buying coffee is the least common in australia.

In detail, In sydney going to a cafe rate was about 61%, In melbourne had the peak about almost 64% which is the highest percent to other cities, in contrast buying fresh coffee is always the lowest in all cities, In adelaide buying instant coffee outraced goint to a cafe and buying fresh coffee to became the only place that experienced the higher rate of buying constant coffee.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.0

You identify the chart’s subject and give an overview, noting that café visits are generally popular and that instant coffee leads in Adelaide. However, the overview is internally inconsistent: you say instant coffee is highest except in Adelaide, then say café visits are most popular in every city. In fact, café visits lead in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Hobart, while instant coffee leads only in Adelaide. The claim that fresh coffee is the lowest in all cities is also inaccurate; it is lower than the other figures in most cities, but not Adelaide, where café visits are slightly lower. The response omits several useful comparisons and ends before adequately reporting the data. It is also 9 words below the required minimum. Add accurate city-by-city comparisons and a fuller account of the main patterns.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.5

The response has a basic structure: an introduction, an overview and a detail paragraph. This gives the reader some sense of the intended organisation. However, progression within the paragraphs is weak, and the detail paragraph moves from Sydney to Melbourne and then Adelaide without a clear, consistent comparison. Linking words such as “However,” “Whereas” and “In contrast” are used, but some connections are confusing because the claims they join conflict or do not clearly relate. For example, the overview says café visits are most popular in all cities, while the next sentence says buying coffee is least common. Use a clearer sequence, such as comparing café visits across cities first, then contrasting fresh and instant coffee, and ensure each connector expresses the relationship accurately.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

You use some task-relevant vocabulary, including “percentages,” “survey,” “highest level,” “fluctuation” and “rate,” so the topic is generally recognisable. However, the range is limited and several word choices or collocations are inaccurate, which sometimes makes the meaning difficult to follow. Phrases such as “the percentages present,” “buying constant coffee” and “the peak about almost 64%” are not natural or precise for describing chart data. There are also spelling errors, including “bridbane,” “experiend” and “goint.” Aim for accurate, repeated-use chart language such as “the proportion of residents,” “stood at,” “was the highest,” and “slightly exceeded.” Check spelling and choose terms that distinguish fresh coffee, instant coffee and café visits clearly.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempt some longer sentences and use comparison structures, including “While…” and “Whereas…,” but control is inconsistent. Several sentences contain faulty clause construction or missing grammatical elements. For example, “In melbourne had the peak” lacks a clear subject, and “buying fresh coffee is always the lowest” uses an awkward structure for comparing percentages. Capitalisation and punctuation are also unreliable: city names and sentence openings are inconsistently capitalised, and commas join long sequences of clauses without clear boundaries. These errors sometimes make the relationships between ideas hard to interpret. Practise building shorter, complete sentences first—for example, “Café visits reached about 64% in Melbourne”—then combine them with accurate contrast clauses and check articles, verb forms and punctuation.

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