Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.0 · Cambridge IELTS 15 · 2026-10-09

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 bar chart illustrates the properton of people's and tea buying and drinking habits, who belong to five cities of Australia. The data is presented in percentages.

Overall, the people of Melbourne look highly fond of going to cafe for coffee or tea than buying instant coffee and low range of buying fresh coffee with the percentages of 64%, 54% and 42% respectively.

In detail, 63% people of Hobart go to cafe, 54% of them buy instant coffee, which is the largest among all catogeries, while 44% are those who like fresh coffee.

Now, people of Sydney are here who have also interest to go to cafe with 66%, buying instant and fresh coffee have percentages of 45% and 44%.

People of Brisbane have low interest in going cafe with 55% which is smallest of all. The instant coffee lovers are 53% and fresh coffee lovers are 33% which is also lowest among all catogeries.

In the last, the city Adelaide has people who also look no more interest in all three things, there are 55% fresh coffee drinkers, and 33% of instant coffee drinkers, and 54% are those who go to the cafe.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.0

You identify the three activities and compare several cities, and your overview correctly notes that café visits are generally popular. However, the overview focuses only on Melbourne and gives figures that do not match the chart: Melbourne’s café figure is about 64%, instant coffee about 49%, and fresh coffee about 43%, rather than 64%, 54%, and 42%. There are also important misreadings in the details: Adelaide’s fresh-coffee figure is about 35%, not 55%, and its café figure is about 50%, not 54%; Sydney’s café figure is about 61%, not 66%. These inaccuracies make the account only partly reliable. Select the main highs and lows accurately, then summarise the overall pattern across all five cities.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.5

The response has a basic structure, moving from an introduction and overview to city-by-city details, so the reader can follow the general subject. However, the progression is largely a list of cities rather than a clear comparison of the three activities. Transitions such as “Now” and “In the last” are mechanical, and the overview is limited to Melbourne instead of preparing the reader for the main patterns. Some sentences also combine several figures without making the comparison clear. Grouping the information by notable trends—for example, café attendance being highest in Melbourne and Hobart, while instant coffee leads in every city—would create a more logical progression and make the comparisons easier to follow.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

You use relevant task vocabulary, including “percentages,” “instant coffee,” “fresh coffee,” and “go to cafe,” so the topic is generally clear. However, the range is limited and several word choices or collocations are inaccurate or unnatural, such as “properton,” “highly fond of going to cafe,” “low range of buying,” and “no more interest.” Spelling errors such as “catogeries” also reduce precision. Repeating “people” and “interest” makes the description less varied. Use neutral reporting language and precise terms for proportions and comparisons, such as “the proportion who visited cafés” or “the lowest figure.” This would make the account clearer and more appropriate for an academic chart summary.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempt both simple sentences and longer clauses, including the sentence beginning “Overall” and the contrast introduced by “while.” However, the range is limited, and errors occur frequently enough to make some sentences awkward or difficult to interpret. For example, “the proportion of people's and tea buying” has an unclear grammatical structure, while “63% people of Hobart go to cafe” is missing an article and uses an incomplete noun phrase. In “there are 55% fresh coffee drinkers,” the construction does not correctly express a percentage. Practise accurate patterns such as “X% of residents visited a café” and “the figure for fresh coffee was X%.” Check articles, prepositions, and sentence boundaries when editing.

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