Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.5 · Cambridge IELTS 15 · 2026-10-13

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 illustrate the fractions of individuals consuming coffee and tea in five distinct cities in Australia over the past four weeks.

Overall, more residents are preferring visiting cafe for coffee and tea. However instant coffe is more popular to fresh coffee in all the five given cities. Very few residents are taking tea and coffee in Adelaide comparing with all other given cities.

Melbourne recoeded the highest percentage of residents visting the cafe which is just below 65%. Conversley, Adelaide recorded the lowest rate at almost 50% becoming the lowest. At almost 55%, Hobart had the highest percentage of residents buying instant coffee followed by Brisbane at 52.5, and least rate being recorded in Sydney at just above 45%.

Sydney recorded the highest rate (just below 45%) of people buying fresh coffee in the last four weeks although more people in that city are prefferring visiting the cafe. In contrast Brisbane recorded only slightly less than 35% of people taking fresh coffee, beng the lowest.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.5

You identify several important patterns, including café visits being highest in most cities and instant coffee exceeding fresh coffee everywhere. The comparisons for Melbourne’s café figure, Hobart’s instant-coffee figure, and Sydney’s fresh-coffee figure are broadly accurate. However, the overview is not fully reliable: Adelaide is not the lowest for both habits, and saying “Very few residents” drink coffee or tea there is misleading, since its café figure is about 50%. Some key comparisons are also missing, such as Hobart’s café rate being almost as high as Melbourne’s, and Adelaide having the lowest café figure. Develop the overview around the main contrasts and report the categories precisely rather than making broad claims about residents’ preferences.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0

The response has a clear overall arrangement: an introduction, an overview, and paragraphs giving city-specific details. Linking expressions such as “Overall,” “Conversely,” and “In contrast” help signal comparisons, and the reader can generally follow the progression. However, the overview combines a broad claim about café visits with an unclear statement about Adelaide, so the relationship between the main features is not always clear. The final paragraph also moves from Sydney to Brisbane without fully comparing the other cities’ fresh-coffee figures. Grouping information by category—for example, café visits first, then the two purchasing habits—would make the comparisons more systematic. Check that contrast markers introduce genuinely contrasting information.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use a reasonable range of task-related vocabulary, including “percentage,” “recorded,” “highest,” “lowest,” and “followed by,” which helps describe the chart. However, several word choices and collocations are inaccurate or imprecise: “fractions of individuals consuming” does not naturally describe survey percentages, while “taking fresh coffee” and “preferring visiting cafe” are not suitable expressions here. “Very few residents” also overstates the data. Spelling errors such as “coffe,” “recoeded,” and “Conversley” are noticeable and reduce the accuracy of the vocabulary. Aim for precise chart language such as “the proportion of residents who bought” and “the percentage who visited a café,” and proofread carefully.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You attempt both simple and more complex sentence forms, including a contrast introduced by “although” and a comparison beginning “In contrast.” Most of the meaning remains understandable, but some grammatical errors recur. The opening says “The bar graph illustrate,” where the singular subject requires “illustrates.” In “more residents are preferring visiting cafe,” the verb pattern and article are faulty; a clearer construction is “more residents visited a café.” The phrase “Adelaide comparing with all other given cities” also needs a grammatical comparison, such as “compared with the other cities.” There are some sentence-boundary and punctuation issues, including the comma splice in “At almost 55%, Hobart had …, followed by Brisbane …”. Review agreement, articles, verb patterns, and punctuation while retaining your attempts at varied structures.

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