Band 4.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer
Overall Band Score: 4.5 · Cambridge IELTS 15 · 2026-10-08
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 4.5)
The provided chart illustrates the overall result of servay about people buying tea and coffee buying and drinking habits in different five cities in one nation. The data was callebrated in the percentage.
Overall, the proportion of city residents remained went to a coffee or tea in last 4 weeks was the highest ratio in the all cities, whereas the lowest ratio was the bought fresh coffee in the last 4 weeks.
AI examiner evaluation
| Criterion | Band |
|---|---|
| Task Achievement / Task Response | 3.5 |
| Coherence and Cohesion | 5.0 |
| Lexical Resource | 5.0 |
| Grammatical Range and Accuracy | 5.0 |
| Overall | 4.5 |
Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 3.5
The response identifies the chart’s general subject and attempts an overview, noting that café visits were highest overall and fresh-coffee purchases were generally lower. However, it does not adequately summarise the data: there are no city-by-city figures or comparisons, and the claim that fresh coffee was the lowest in every city is not accurate, since instant coffee was lower than fresh coffee in Sydney and Melbourne. The response also contains only 72 words, well below the required 150, so the task is addressed only minimally and the key features are not developed. To improve, include an overview supported by several accurate comparisons, such as café attendance being highest in Melbourne and Hobart, and report representative percentages for all three categories.
Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.0
There is a basic attempt to organise the response into an introduction and an overview, with “Overall” signalling the second paragraph’s purpose. This gives the reader a simple structure. However, the response ends after these two brief paragraphs and does not progress to a detailed comparison of the cities or categories. The overview sentence is also difficult to follow because several ideas are compressed into “the proportion of city residents remained went to a coffee or tea.” Develop a clear sequence: introduce what is measured, summarise the main patterns, then compare the cities using separate, logically connected points. More precise linking and reference would make the relationships between the data easier to understand.
Lexical Resource: Band 5.0
The response uses some relevant chart vocabulary, including “proportion,” “percentage,” “residents,” and “ratio,” and it attempts to describe the subject in its own words. However, the range is limited, and several spelling and word-choice errors make the writing less clear: “servay” and “callebrated” are misspelled, while “the overall result of survey” and “the lowest ratio was the bought fresh coffee” are unnatural or imprecise. “Ratio” is not the best term for these percentages; “proportion” or “percentage” would be more suitable. Build a small set of accurate expressions for reporting chart data, such as “the share of residents who…,” “recorded the highest figure,” and “was lower than.”
Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0
The response attempts both a longer introductory sentence and an overview sentence, and the basic message can be inferred. However, grammatical control is inconsistent, and the structures are mostly limited to simple statements. For example, “people buying tea and coffee buying and drinking habits” has an unclear noun structure, while “the proportion of city residents remained went to a coffee or tea” combines incompatible verb forms. The phrase “in the all cities” also shows difficulty with articles and sentence patterns. Practise forming a clear subject and verb for each comparison—for example, “The proportion of residents who visited a café was highest in…”—and check that each sentence has a complete, grammatically consistent structure.
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