Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer
Overall Band Score: 5.0 · Cambridge IELTS 15 · 2026-09-17
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 given bar chart provide the information about the outcomes of the survey as conducted about buying the tea and coffee by people and also their drinking activities in five cities of Australia namely as Sydney, Melboume, Brisbane, Adeliade, Hobart in the past 4 weeks.
Overall the graph illustrates that highest ratio of the people went to cafe to for tea or coffee in all the five cities in contrast to this very few percentage of people bought instant coffee in last weeks among all the cities.
the graph show that almost 65% of people of Melboume and Hobart went to cafe and bought tea and coffee while the Sydney as the second city where about 61% people bought from cafe on the other hand Adelaide is the city with the least percentage 48%of people buying from cafe.
its also demonstrates that the instant coffee was mostly buy by Hobart 48% and least in Sydney with 46% and buying fresh coffee is least common in Brisbane with only 34%.
AI examiner evaluation
| Criterion | Band |
|---|---|
| Task Achievement / Task Response | 5.0 |
| Coherence and Cohesion | 5.0 |
| Lexical Resource | 5.0 |
| Grammatical Range and Accuracy | 4.5 |
| Overall | 5.0 |
Task Achievement / Task Response — Band 5.0
The student attempts to cover the main features of the chart, providing an overview and selecting data points related to coffee and tea habits across the five Australian cities. However, there are significant inaccuracies in the reported figures. For instance, the student states that 'almost 65% of people of Melboume and Hobart went to cafe', whereas the chart shows Melbourne at around 63.5% and Hobart at 63%. More noticeably, the text states 'instant coffee was mostly buy by Hobart 48% and least in Sydney with 46%', whereas the chart shows Hobart at 54.5% and Sydney at 45.5%. These data misreadings limit the precision of the task fulfillment. Additionally, the overview contains a minor generalisation error regarding instant coffee. Overall, the response addresses the prompt but suffers from inaccurate data reporting.
Coherence and Cohesion — Band 5.0
The response is divided into a brief introduction and three body paragraphs, attempting an overall structure suitable for an Academic Task 1. However, paragraphing is poorly executed; the second paragraph merges the overview with detailed data points, and sentence boundaries are frequently blurred by missing punctuation and capitalization. Cohesive devices are minimal and basic (e.g., 'Overall', 'on the other hand', 'its also demonstrates'), and referencing is sometimes confusing. There is a lack of smooth progression between ideas, and the overall mechanical flow is occasionally disrupted by run-on sentences and a lack of periods.
Lexical Resource — Band 5.0
The student demonstrates an adequate vocabulary for the task, successfully using terms related to the prompt such as 'outcomes', 'survey', 'ratio', and 'percentage'. However, there are notable word choice and collocation errors, such as 'went to cafe to for tea', 'mostly buy by Hobart', and spelling errors including 'Melboume' and 'Adeliade'. The range of vocabulary is limited, relying heavily on basic terms and repeating phrases like 'bought from cafe' and 'buying fresh coffee'. While communication is not severely impeded, the lexical limitations and inaccuracies prevent the response from achieving a higher band.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy — Band 4.5
The student attempts a mix of simple and complex sentence structures, but grammatical accuracy is weak throughout the text. There are frequent basic errors, including subject-verb agreement issues ('The given bar chart provide'), missing auxiliary verbs, incorrect passive voice formation ('instant coffee was mostly buy by'), and missing articles. Punctuation is largely neglected, resulting in run-on sentences with missing periods at the ends of sentences (e.g., the second-to-last paragraph lacks terminal punctuation). These recurring errors and structural awkwardness frequently distract the reader, though the underlying meaning can generally be deciphered.
See this exact question answered at other band scores — the same prompt compared across bands.
Browse more IELTS Writing model answers or get your own writing scored by the same AI examiner.