Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer
Overall Band Score: 5.0 · Cambridge IELTS 15 · 2026-10-17
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 results of a survey on the tea and coffee purchasing and drinking habits of residents in five different australian cities, namely Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Hobart, over the recent four weeks.
overall, melbourne show the highest proportion in the figure whereas inverse could be seen in the Adelaide morover visiting a cafe for bought coffee and tea is the most popular activity.
In sydney, bought fresh coffee approxiamately 43% compared with purchase instant coffee is 45%
AI examiner evaluation
| Criterion | Band |
|---|---|
| Task Achievement / Task Response | 3.5 |
| Coherence and Cohesion | 5.0 |
| Lexical Resource | 5.5 |
| Grammatical Range and Accuracy | 5.0 |
| Overall | 5.0 |
Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 3.5
The opening identifies the chart, its subject and all five cities, and the response attempts an overview by mentioning café visits and differences between cities. However, the overview is inaccurate: Melbourne does not have the highest figure overall; café attendance is highest in Melbourne and Hobart, while Hobart has the highest instant-coffee figure. The claim that Adelaide is the inverse is too vague to communicate a reliable comparison. Only Sydney is described in the detail, and its approximate fresh-coffee figure is close, but the instant-coffee figure is slightly understated. The response also falls 68 words short of the required minimum, leaving most key comparisons and data unreported. To improve, give an accurate overview and cover the main patterns across all five cities.
Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.0
The response has a basic structure: an introduction, an overview and a detail sentence, so the reader can recognise the intended stages of a Task 1 report. However, progression is very limited because the final paragraph gives figures for Sydney only, with no organised comparison of the other cities or categories. The overview’s wording, particularly “inverse could be seen in the Adelaide,” does not make the relationship between the cities clear. Linking is also sparse, and “morover” does not effectively connect the ideas that follow. Develop separate, purposeful paragraphs for the overview and grouped comparisons, and use clear links such as “by contrast” or “while” to show how the figures relate.
Lexical Resource: Band 5.5
The response uses some relevant task vocabulary, including “survey,” “proportion,” “purchasing,” and “activity,” and it attempts to describe approximate figures. This gives it a minimally adequate range for the topic. However, several choices or forms are inaccurate or awkward, such as “inverse” for a contrasting pattern and “visiting a cafe for bought coffee and tea,” which makes the activity difficult to interpret. There are also noticeable spelling errors, including “australian,” “approxiamately,” and “morover.” Use the chart’s category labels more precisely—for example, “bought fresh coffee” and “went to a café for coffee or tea”—and check spelling and collocations before finishing.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0
The response attempts a few different sentence forms, including a complex introductory sentence and an overview beginning with “overall.” Most ideas remain understandable, but grammatical control is inconsistent. For example, “melbourne show” has a subject–verb agreement error, and “In sydney, bought fresh coffee approximately 43%” lacks a clear subject and finite verb. The phrase “compared with purchase instant coffee is 45%” also has an incomplete comparison structure. Capitalisation and punctuation are inconsistent, including lowercase city names and the start of the overview. Build complete sentences with an explicit subject and verb, such as “In Sydney, approximately 43% bought fresh coffee, compared with 45% who bought instant coffee,” and proofread agreement and sentence boundaries.
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