Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.5 · Cambridge IELTS 15 · 2026-10-12

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 graph illustrate the outcome of survey about purchasing and consuming coffee and tea habits of Australian citezen in five different Australian cities.

Overall, we see a pattern in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Hobart that in a month fresh coffee is less consumed as people buy instant coffee and a high sales in cafe of people who drink coffee and tea while in Adelaide the fresh coffee are on the bottom but isntant coffee buyer are on top and people who went to cafe for coffe or tea are lie in middle.

Diving into the details, if we look at the customer of fresh coffee Sydney is on top with 44%, then Melbourne lie after it with 42%. going on Hobart have 38%, Adelaide 34.5% and Brisbane is on lower position with 34%, Now if we look at the people who went to cafe for coffee and tea their is pattern that Sydney, Melbourne, Bristane and Hobart all of 4 are above 55% onlt Adekaide have 49% cx. Lastly citezen who bought coffee instantly are random in evey city, Hobart is on the top with 54%, Brisbane with 53% customer, Adelaide have 50%, Melbourne have 48% and Sydney is on low position with 45%.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.5

You identify the three survey categories and make relevant comparisons across the cities, including the high café figures in Sydney, Melbourne and Hobart and the prominence of instant coffee in Hobart. However, the overview is difficult to interpret and does not clearly summarise the main pattern: café visits are highest in most cities, while fresh coffee is generally the least popular category. Some details are inaccurate or unclear: Brisbane and Adelaide are tied for the lowest fresh-coffee figure, rather than Brisbane being clearly lower, and the café figures for Sydney, Melbourne and Hobart are not all simply above 55% as the wording suggests. Report the main comparisons more precisely and avoid describing the results as “random.”

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.5

The response has a basic structure, moving from an introduction and overview to details about fresh coffee, café visits and instant coffee. This gives the reader some sense of organisation. However, progression is weakened by long, crowded sentences and abrupt transitions, particularly in the overview and the sentence beginning “Now if we look at the people who went to cafe.” Linking phrases such as “Diving into the details” and “Lastly” help, but the information is not consistently grouped or connected clearly. Use separate, focused sentences and organise the body around meaningful comparisons—for example, café visits first, then the two types of coffee purchases. Clearer punctuation and references would also make the relationships between figures easier to follow.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

You use some task-relevant vocabulary, including “survey,” “fresh coffee,” “instant coffee,” “customer” and “on the top,” so the reader can usually identify the categories being discussed. However, the range is limited and several choices are inaccurate or unnatural, which sometimes makes the meaning difficult to follow. For example, “a high sales in cafe” and “people who went to cafe … are lie in middle” do not express the comparisons clearly; “random” is also unsuitable for describing the variation between cities. Spelling errors such as “citezen,” “Bristane” and “Adekaide” further reduce clarity. Aim for precise chart language such as “proportion,” “highest,” “lowest” and “accounted for,” and check spelling carefully.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

There are attempts to use longer structures, including the contrast beginning “while in Adelaide,” and the response generally communicates that it is comparing survey results. However, sentence structures are often faulty, and errors frequently make the relationships between ideas hard to understand. Examples include “The graph illustrate,” “the fresh coffee are on the bottom,” and “Hobart have 38%,” where subject–verb agreement is not controlled. Articles and sentence boundaries are also problematic, as in “a pattern in Sydney” and the run-on sequence “going on Hobart have 38%, Adelaide 34.5% and Brisbane is on lower position.” Use shorter, complete sentences, check singular and plural agreement, and punctuate each comparison clearly.

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