Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.5 · Cambridge IELTS 15 · 2026-10-22

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 Chart below demonstrate the result of a survey which give information about portion of cities residents whome buys tea and coffee and as well as their drinking habits in five major cities of Australia like

Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Hobart

Overall, It is visible that the residents of the Cities preferred going to cafe to buy and drink coffee in last month followed by the people who brought instant coffee, and least people choose to buy fresh coffee from the market in last 4 weeks across all cities residents.

in Sydney around 60 persent of population enjoy buying coffee from cafe. Followed by instant coffee and fresh coffee about 45% each in last month on the other hand people living in Melbourne also choose

to drink coffee in cafe and contribute about 65 percent which is the highest among all the other cities whereas preferrence for instant coffee and Fresh coffee are 50 and 43 percent Respectively. In

Brisbane individual Share allmost same percentage of 55% for

instant coffe and cafe coffee, and 35% for fresh cafe.

In contrast in Adelaide instant coffee and coffee from cafe is baught and sharing almost same portion with 50% each, Hobart tells the same persentage 65% for coffee in cafe and 55 and 40 persent for instant coffee and fresh coffee.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.5

You identify the three behaviours and give an overview that café visits were generally most popular, while fresh coffee purchases were usually lowest. Several comparisons are relevant, including Melbourne’s high café figure and the similar Adelaide proportions for café visits and instant coffee. However, the overview overgeneralises: fresh coffee was not the least popular in every city, since in Adelaide café visits were slightly below fresh coffee, and Hobart’s café figure was about 63%, not 65%. Some data are also missing or imprecise, particularly Adelaide’s fresh-coffee result and the distinction between buying coffee and visiting a café. Select the main patterns more carefully and report the categories and figures consistently to make the summary more complete.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.0

The response has a recognisable introduction, overview and city-by-city detail, so the reader can follow its broad purpose. However, progression within the details is uneven: Sydney and Melbourne are grouped, Brisbane is treated separately, and Adelaide and Hobart are combined without a clear comparison. Linking phrases such as “Followed by,” “on the other hand” and “In contrast” are sometimes awkward or do not clearly signal the relationship between the data. Several sentences run together, and line breaks interrupt the flow. Organise the body into clearer comparison groups and use complete sentences with precise links—for example, compare the two highest café figures, then contrast the lower figures and fresh-coffee results.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use some task-relevant vocabulary, including “residents,” “percentage,” “instant coffee” and “fresh coffee,” and you attempt to vary expressions with “preferred” and “contribute.” However, word choice and spelling are often inaccurate or repetitive, which makes some descriptions difficult to interpret. For example, “coffee from cafe” is used where the chart reports visiting a café, and “individual Share allmost same percentage” is not a natural way to describe the figures. There are also repeated misspellings such as “persent,” “baught” and “coffe.” Use precise chart language consistently, such as “the proportion who visited a café,” and check spelling and collocations before submitting.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempt longer sentences and comparisons, but control is inconsistent, and many sentences contain errors that make the relationships between ideas harder to follow. Examples include “The bar Chart below demonstrate,” where the subject and verb do not agree, and “the residents of the Cities preferred going,” where the tense is unsuitable for describing survey results. Articles and sentence boundaries are also problematic, as in “in cafe” and the long sentence beginning “in Sydney around 60…” that joins several ideas without reliable punctuation. Most structures rely on simple statements or loosely connected clauses. Practise accurate present-tense reporting, subject–verb agreement and complete sentence boundaries before adding more complex comparisons.

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