Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer
Overall Band Score: 5.5 · Cambridge IELTS 15 · 2026-09-28
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 results of a survay about people's coffee, tea buying and drinking habits in five Australian cities.
Overall, it can be easily seen that people living in all the cities used to prefer to went to cafe for coffeeor tea in the last four weeks. And less of the priorrtized to bought fresh or instant coffee.
Subsequently, the Melbourne proportion is higher then all for this, that is almost 64%. 49% of its people had bought instant coffee in this period and 42% of the people had bought fresh coffee.
Afterwards, following Melbourne people, the people belongs to Hobart also used to prioritize to went to cafe for having drinks. Their ratio is 63%. And in buying instant coffee is 54% and 39% of the people had bought fresh coffee.
On the other hand, in Sydney 61% of the people had went for coffe to cafe and 45% of the citizens had bought instant coffee and 44% of them had fresh one.
Likewise, the other two cities(Brisbane and Adelaide) also have high percentage of people who went to cafe for coffee around about 55.5% in Brisbane and 49.9% in Adelaide.
AI examiner evaluation
| Criterion | Band |
|---|---|
| Task Achievement / Task Response | 5.5 |
| Coherence and Cohesion | 5.5 |
| Lexical Resource | 5.0 |
| Grammatical Range and Accuracy | 5.0 |
| Overall | 5.5 |
Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.5
The student covers most of the key features of the chart, successfully identifying the overall trend that visiting a cafe was the most popular activity, followed by buying instant coffee and then fresh coffee. Data points are cited for the cities, such as Melbourne's café percentage at nearly 64% and Hobart's fresh and instant coffee figures. However, there are some minor inaccuracies in reading the data, such as stating Melbourne's instant coffee was 49% (chart shows around 48.5%) and omitting complete figures for Adelaide. Additionally, the overview is somewhat simplistic ('people living in all the cities used to prefer to went to cafe'). Overall, the response addresses the prompt reasonably well, earning a band score of 6.0.
Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.5
The response is organized into paragraphs, starting with an introduction and overview, followed by city-by-city breakdowns. However, the progression between ideas is often clunky due to repetitive and unnatural transitional phrases such as 'Subsequently,' 'Afterwards,' and 'On the other hand,' which do not logically fit the spatial comparison of different cities. Referencing is sometimes unclear, and the overall coherence suffers from a lack of smooth cohesion. Paragraphing is attempted, but linking devices are frequently overused or misused, resulting in a Band 5.5 performance.
Lexical Resource: Band 5.0
The vocabulary used is adequate for the task, allowing the student to communicate basic data comparisons. However, there are frequent word-formation errors and spelling mistakes, such as 'survay' instead of survey, 'priorrtized' instead of prioritized, and awkward phrasing like 'fresh one' and 'ratio' when referring to percentages. Attempts at less common vocabulary lead to lexical inaccuracies. The range is limited and repetitive, which is characteristic of Band 5.0.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0
The response contains a very limited range of grammatical structures, and attempts at complex sentences or infinitive phrases are frequently faulty. Examples of grammatical errors include 'used to prefer to went to cafe' (incorrect verb form after 'to'), 'less of the prioritized to bought' (severe grammatical confusion), 'the Melbourne proportion is higher then all' (spelling 'then' instead of 'than'), and 'had went' instead of 'had gone'. These frequent errors cause some difficulty for the reader and reflect a Band 5.0 level.
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