Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer
Overall Band Score: 5.5 · Cambridge IELTS 15 · 2026-10-04
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 proportions of a survey about people's coffee and tea buying and drinking habits in five Australian cities.
Overall, people visited cafe for coffee or tea had highest figures, whereas people who brought fresh coffee was lowest. while, people who bought instant coffee in last four weeks was recorded second highest.
Looking first at Melbourne and Hobart represented same 63%, followed by Sydney at 61%. By comparsion Brisban and Adelaide was lowest figures with 55% and 49%.
As for people who bought fresh and instant coffee, Sydney accounted for 44% and 46%, while in Melbourne instant coffee was higher up to 48% than fresh coffee was 42%. The Hobart had 54% in instant coffe and 36% in fresh, but in Brisbane and Adelaide people who bought fresh coffee have same 34% and instant coffee stood at 53% and 50%. so, this is the percentage of city residents for buying and drinking habits in five cities in Australia
AI examiner evaluation
| Criterion | Band |
|---|---|
| Task Achievement / Task Response | 6.0 |
| Coherence and Cohesion | 5.0 |
| Lexical Resource | 5.5 |
| Grammatical Range and Accuracy | 5.0 |
| Overall | 5.5 |
Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0
The response successfully addresses all parts of the task by presenting an overview and reporting key data from the bar chart across the five Australian cities. However, some areas are developed more fully than others. While the highest and lowest general habits are mentioned, the organisation and selection of data lack balance, leading to a tendency to list figures rather than fully synthesizing the comparisons. A few minor details are slightly misstated or generalized, such as grouping certain cities together without clear comparative context. To reach a higher band, the response would need to provide a more consistently developed selection of main features with clearer, more precise comparisons throughout.
Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.0
The response presents an overall arrangement that can be followed, and attempts to group information into paragraphs. However, the progression of ideas is frequently jerky and lacks a clear logical flow, largely due to mechanical and inadequate cohesive devices (such as repetitive use of 'while', 'as for', and conversational transitions like 'so, this is the percentage'). Paragraphing is present, but internal cohesion within paragraphs is faulty, and referencing is sometimes unclear, meaning the reader has to work harder to follow the relationships between data points. To improve, the writer needs to use a wider and more accurate range of cohesive devices to smoothly link sentences and paragraphs together.
Lexical Resource: Band 5.5
The vocabulary used is adequate to communicate the basic information from the chart, meeting the minimum requirements for the task. The writer attempts some less common vocabulary and topic-specific terms related to coffee and tea habits. However, there are notable lexical inaccuracies, including awkward phrasing like 'people visited cafe for coffee or tea had highest figures' and 'brought fresh coffee', along with minor spelling and word-form errors like 'comparsion', 'Brisban', and 'coffe'. These errors do not seriously impede overall communication, but they restrict the lexical score. Incorporating more precise vocabulary and ensuring accurate word forms would lift this criterion.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0
The response features a mix of simple and complex sentence forms, demonstrating some attempt at variety. However, there are frequent errors in grammar and sentence structure, such as missing articles ('visited cafe'), incorrect relative clauses ('people visited cafe... had highest figures'), and awkward prepositional or verb patterns ('people who bought fresh coffee have same'). Punctuation is also inconsistent, particularly with capitalization and sentence boundaries, as seen in run-on structures and the informal concluding sentence. While these errors rarely completely obscure the meaning, they are frequent enough to cause some difficulty for the reader and prevent the text from achieving a higher band.
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