Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

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

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 illustates about the survey in five cities of Australia about the general public preferences on coffee and tea.

Overall, the population of Australia prefer to drink coffee or tea in a cafe. People of Hobart and Melbourn are most in number followed by the other cities. Residents also prefer to bought instant coffee in all five cities.

The Hobart and Melbourne city have highest percentage of residents who went to cafe for coffee or tea. The percentage is 65. The percentage of people who prefer instant coffe and fresh coffe is 54% and 37% respectivily in Hobart and 48% and 43% in Melbourne.

The preferences of the people for instant coffe and fresh coffee in other cities are leaa comapre to Melbourne and Hobart. The sydney have same amout of peopl who prefer instant coffee and freh coffee where other cities like Brisbane and Adelaide have similar amount of population who prefer coffee an

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.0

You identify the chart’s broad subject and include relevant comparisons, such as café visits being high in Hobart and Melbourne and instant coffee being popular across the cities. However, the overview is not consistently accurate: Hobart and Melbourne are not the only leading cities for café visits, as Sydney is also high, and the claim that residents prefer instant coffee in all five cities overlooks café visits being the most common activity in four cities. Some figures are misreported, including Hobart’s café figure (about 63%, not 65%) and its fresh-coffee figure (about 38.5%, not 37%). The final comparison is unfinished, and the response gives limited coverage of the main patterns. A clearer, accurate overview and complete comparisons would make the report more fully address the task.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.0

The response has a basic paragraph structure: an introduction, an overview, and paragraphs attempting to compare the cities. This gives the reader some sense of organisation, and phrases such as “Overall” and “followed by” signal relationships between ideas. However, progression is limited because the comparisons are not developed systematically across all five cities. The final sentence breaks off at “coffee an”, leaving the last point incomplete, while “other cities” is vague and makes the comparison harder to follow. Some ideas are also repeated without adding detail. Grouping the data into clear comparisons—for example, café attendance first, then fresh and instant coffee purchases—and using precise references to each city would improve cohesion.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

You use some relevant vocabulary for describing survey results, including “percentage,” “preferences,” “residents,” and “followed by.” This shows a basic ability to discuss the chart. However, the range is limited and several spelling and word-choice errors are noticeable, such as “illustates,” “Melbourn,” “coffe,” “respectivily,” and “leaa comapre.” Some expressions are also unnatural or imprecise: “most in number” and “same amout of peopl” do not clearly describe the proportions shown. Repeating “people,” “prefer,” and “coffee” also limits variety. Practise accurate chart language such as “accounted for,” “the proportion of residents,” and “was higher than,” while checking spelling and choosing natural collocations.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempt both simple statements and longer comparative sentences, and the opening overview shows an effort to summarise several patterns. However, the range is limited, and errors occur frequently enough to make some sentences difficult to interpret. For example, “Residents also prefer to bought instant coffee” combines verb forms incorrectly, while “The Hobart and Melbourne city have highest percentage” has problems with number, agreement, and article use. The final sentence is incomplete, so its grammatical relationship cannot be understood. Work on subject–verb agreement, articles, and verb patterns such as “prefer to buy,” and make sure each sentence has a complete main clause. Shorter, carefully checked comparisons would improve accuracy.

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