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 chart given below illustrate the habit of people buying coffee and tea in different cities of australia.

The people of Melbourne provides a major portion in the chart . It have people around 63% who likes to drink coffee and tea in a cafe .If we compare this with the all other cities, it is city with higest participation of people who like to cafe for cofee or tea.If we explore more the Hobart city palce occupy second the second place . Then other cities like sydney ,Brisbane and Adelaide comes in decending order .

If we check how many people bought coffee and tea we found that sydney is at top place with 44% and other cities like Brisbane,Adelaide ,Hobart and Melborune we found that they are in assending order .if we go with instant coffee we see Habort at first place and then Brisbane ,Adelaide ,Melbourne in an order and sydney with lowest percentage of people who likes to buy isntant coffee.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.0

You identify relevant features, including café visits being highest in Melbourne and Hobart and instant coffee being most popular in Hobart. However, the report only partially covers the chart and several comparisons are inaccurate or unclear. Melbourne, not Hobart, has the highest café figure, though the difference is small; Sydney is not the city with the highest fresh-coffee purchases, as its figure is close to Melbourne’s and Hobart’s is also higher than some cities. The statement that other cities follow an “ascending order” does not specify the figures or a clear ranking. Include a concise overview of the main patterns, then compare the three categories accurately using selected figures.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.5

The response has some organisation: it first discusses café visits, then turns to coffee purchases, and uses phrases such as “If we compare” and “If we check” to signal comparisons. However, the progression is not consistently clear because the categories and rankings are sometimes mixed together. For example, “how many people bought coffee and tea” does not distinguish fresh from instant coffee, and the sequence of cities is difficult to follow. Repeated conditional openings also make the linking mechanical, while the response lacks a clear overview paragraph. Organise the report into an overview followed by focused comparisons, and use precise references such as “for fresh coffee” to guide the reader.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

You use some task-relevant vocabulary, including “percentage,” “participation,” “instant coffee,” and “ascending order,” so the topic is generally recognisable. However, the range is limited and several word choices or collocations are inaccurate, which sometimes makes the meaning difficult to interpret. “People who like to cafe” is not a natural way to describe café visits, and “the people of Melbourne provides a major portion” is imprecise for survey results. There are also noticeable spelling errors, including “higest,” “cofee,” “Habort,” and “isntant.” Use accurate chart language such as “the proportion of residents who visited a café” and check spelling carefully.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempt some longer sentences with comparisons, but the range is limited and errors occur frequently enough to make parts of the report difficult to follow. For example, “The chart … illustrate” has subject–verb disagreement, while “It have people around 63%” has an incorrect verb form and unclear sentence structure. In “If we compare this with the all other cities,” the article use is faulty, and several sentences run together without reliable punctuation. Try building clear, controlled sentences with a subject and verb, such as “About 63% of Melbourne residents visited a café.” Then vary these with accurate comparative clauses, checking agreement, articles, and sentence boundaries.

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