Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.5 · Cambridge IELTS 15 · 2026-09-24

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 graph illustrates the proportion of people's pattern divided in three categories of purchasing and consuming coffee and tea in last 4 weeks who lived in five Australian cities (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Hobart)

Overall, majority of people preferred to had a coffee or tea at cafe, while least preferred was buying fresh coffee in last 4 weeks. People from cities Sydney, melbourne, and Hobart showed more proportion of buying or drinking coffee and tea, least was from the peoples of Brisbane and Adelaide.

In last 4 weeks people who went to a cafe for having coffee or tea in last weeks the most proportion accounted from Hobart around 63% closely followed by Sydney and Melbourne about 63% and 61% respectively. While Brisbane and Adelide showed fewer interest in it close to 55% and 50% respectively.

While buying instant coffee in last 4 week, this trend showed moderate respose in all the cities with peak accounted for Hobart with near 55% and the least was preferred by the people of Sydney around 45%. In terms of buying fresh coffee in last 4 weeks, was less favoured by the people of all cities and totalled least for Brisbane and Adelaide nearly 35% with peak of approximately little below 45% in Sydney.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0

The student successfully covers all parts of the task by reporting the main features and making relevant comparisons across the five Australian cities. An overview is provided, noting the general preference for cafés and the contrasting levels of consumption between cities like Hobart and Sydney versus Brisbane and Adelaide. Specific data points are cited, such as Hobart's approximately 63% café attendance and Brisbane's fresh coffee figures near 35%. While the expression in the introduction is slightly awkward ('proportion of people's pattern divided in three categories'), the overall content accurately reflects the provided visual data without noticeable fabrications.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.5

The response is arranged coherently with a clear overall progression. An introductory sentence is followed by an overview paragraph, and subsequent body paragraphs group information logically by category ('went to a café', 'buying instant coffee', 'buying fresh coffee'). However, paragraphing is somewhat cramped, and cohesive devices are occasionally repetitive or mechanical, such as starting multiple sentences and clauses with 'While' or 'In last 4 weeks'. Reference links and pronoun usage are functional but could be smoother to elevate the flow of ideas.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

The student demonstrates an adequate vocabulary range for the task, successfully using terms like 'proportion', 'category', 'moderate response', and 'favoured'. However, there are noticeable word choice and collocation errors, such as 'preferred to had a coffee', 'peoples of Brisbane', and 'respose' (response). Spelling and morphological errors ('Adelide' instead of Adelaide) appear occasionally, preventing the lexical score from reaching higher bands. Less common lexical items are attempted but lack precision.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

A mix of simple and complex sentence forms is attempted, but grammatical control is inconsistent. There are several structural errors and missing prepositions, such as 'preferred to had a coffee', 'least preferred was buying', and 'the most proportion accounted from Hobart'. Punctuation is generally weak, with run-on phrasing and missing commas in introductory clauses. While communication is not severely impeded, the frequency of basic grammatical slips keeps this criterion in the mid-band range.

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