Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer
Overall Band Score: 5.5 · Cambridge IELTS 15 · 2026-09-14
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 5.5)
The bar chart compares the conclusions of a suvey about people's habit of buying and drinking coffee and tea in five different cities of Australia.
Overall,there are results of five different cities including Sydney,Melbourne,Brisbane,Adelaide and Hobart.The percentage for going to cafe for coffee or tea moderately remained high in all the cities except Adelaide.
The city named Brisbane has 53% who bought instant coffee and 56% of people who went to cafe for tea or coffee and a lowest percentage of around 32% among all the cities who bought fresh coffee. Melbourne has the highest of percentage of 63% of people who were going to cafe.
Sydney has compartively lowest percentage of 46% for the people who bought instant coffee in last 4 weeks.Hobart also a high percentage of arounf 62% for the people who went to cafe for the coffee.In Adelaide there was minor disparity between the people who bought instant coffee and went to cafe for coffee.
AI examiner evaluation
| Criterion | Band |
|---|---|
| Task Achievement / Task Response | 5.5 |
| Coherence and Cohesion | 5.0 |
| Lexical Resource | 5.5 |
| Grammatical Range and Accuracy | 5.0 |
| Overall | 5.5 |
Task Achievement / Task Response — Band 5.5
The response covers the main features of the chart well, identifying key trends and comparing the five Australian cities. The introduction accurately paraphrases the prompt, and an overview is provided, noting that café visits remained generally high except in Adelaide. Specific data points are cited, such as Brisbane having 53% for instant coffee and Melbourne having the highest percentage for café visits at 63%. However, there are some minor inaccuracies or omissions in the data reporting, and the comparisons could be more fully developed to reach a higher band. Overall, the task is adequately addressed in line with Band 6 requirements.
Coherence and Cohesion — Band 5.0
The response has a coherent overall arrangement, with a clear attempt to structure the essay into an introduction, an overview, and body paragraphs. However, paragraphing is poorly executed due to missing spaces after punctuation (e.g., 'Overall,there' and 'cities.The percentage'), and some paragraphs are overly fragmented into single-sentence blocks. Cohesive devices are basic and sometimes mechanical or repetitive. Referencing is generally clear, but the lack of smooth transitions between sentences and paragraphs detracts from the overall flow, placing the response firmly at Band 5.5 to 6.0. We award a Band 5.0 due to the mechanical errors in spacing and basic cohesion.
Lexical Resource — Band 5.5
The vocabulary used is adequate for the task, successfully conveying basic statistical information using terms like 'percentage', 'survey', and 'cities'. There are some attempts at less common vocabulary such as 'disparity', 'moderately', and 'comparatively', though these are occasionally misused or awkwardly phrased (e.g., 'compartively lowest percentage'). Spelling is mostly accurate, but word choice and collocation errors occur (e.g., 'conclusions of a suvey' instead of 'results of a survey', and missing letters in 'suvey' and 'arounf'). Because communication is not impeded and a minimally adequate range is demonstrated, a Band 5.5 is appropriate.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy — Band 5.0
The student attempts a mix of simple and complex sentence forms, such as 'The city named Brisbane has 53% who bought instant coffee and 56% of people who went to cafe for tea or coffee'. However, there are frequent grammatical errors, particularly with missing articles ('bought instant coffee', 'went to cafe'), preposition choices ('for the coffee' instead of 'for coffee'), and subject-verb agreement or tense inconsistencies ('Hobart also a high percentage' missing a verb). Punctuation and spacing errors are also prevalent throughout the text. Despite these issues, the meaning remains largely clear, supporting a Band 5.0 score.
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