Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.0 · 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 5.0)

The bar chart illustrates the result of survey about people buying coffee, tea and drinking habits in five cities in australia.

Overall, the want to go cafe for coffee or tea in last four show the highest proportion in bar chart. Moreover, the fresh coffee in last four weeks show the lowest percentage.

In Melbourne the people go to the cafe for coffee is 63% and Instant coffee in 53% Moreover the performance of fresh coffee lowest is only43%. In qdditionally, Sydney is the famouse city in australia and the 61% peoplea go to cafe for coffee. In fresh coffee or instant coffe cannot big difference in sydney beacause his percentage is almost same instant coffee 45% and fresh coffee show the 43%.

In hobert, the percentage of residence in australia when they are go to the cafe for coffee is 63% and instant coffee show the 54% in chart. While, the number of peoples in drinking fresh coffee is 38%. Moreover, Brisbane and adelaide show the normal percentage in last 4 weeks on drinking coffee.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.0

You identify a relevant overall pattern: café visits are generally the most popular activity, while fresh-coffee purchases tend to be lower. You also include several city figures, such as café attendance in Melbourne and Hobart. However, the overview is not fully accurate: fresh coffee is not the lowest category in every city, and café visits are not highest in all five cities. Some figures are misreported—for example, Melbourne’s instant-coffee figure is about 48.5%, not 53%, and its fresh-coffee figure is about 42.5%, not 43% (the latter is close). Brisbane and Adelaide are only described as “normal,” without useful comparisons. Select the main contrasts and report them accurately to address the task more fully.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.0

The response has a basic structure, with an introduction, an overview and city-focused paragraphs, so the reader can recognise the intended organisation. However, the progression is uneven: Sydney, Melbourne and Hobart receive figures, while Brisbane and Adelaide are grouped together without explaining their results. Linking expressions such as “Moreover” and “While” are used, but some connections are unclear or repetitive, and the overview does not lead smoothly into the details. For example, “In addition” introduces Sydney, but the relationship to the preceding Melbourne information is not clear. Organise the body around meaningful comparisons—such as café visits versus purchases, or the highest and lowest city figures—and use linking words only where they clarify those relationships.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

You use some task-relevant vocabulary, including “proportion,” “percentage,” “survey” and “bar chart,” and you attempt to describe comparisons. However, the range is limited and several word choices or collocations make the meaning awkward, such as “the performance of fresh coffee,” “normal percentage” and “peoplea go to cafe.” Spelling errors, including “famous,” “Hobart” and “coffee,” also reduce clarity. Repeated use of “percentage” and “coffee” makes the account less precise. Build a small set of accurate chart-reporting expressions, such as “the proportion of residents who visited a café” and “purchased instant coffee,” and check spelling and word forms before submitting.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempt both simple and more connected sentences, including “While, the number of peoples in drinking fresh coffee is 38%,” but control is inconsistent. Errors in verb forms, articles, agreement and sentence construction occur frequently: “the want to go cafe … show” and “when they are go to the cafe” are difficult to process, while “the 61% people” lacks a natural grammatical structure. Some sentences also join several ideas without clear punctuation, as in the Sydney comparison. These problems can make the reader pause to work out the intended meaning. Practise reliable patterns such as “The proportion of residents who visited a café was…” and “In Sydney, the figures for fresh and instant coffee were similar,” then check each sentence for a clear subject and correctly formed verb.

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