Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.0 · Cambridge IELTS 15 · 2026-10-28

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 given bar graph illustrates the information about the survey of people's coffee and tea buying or drinking habits in Sydney, Melbourne,Brisbane,Adelaide,Hoabrt.The data has been measured in percentage.

overall, it can be seen thatthe maximum number of people went to cafe for coffee in last four weeks remained same in Melbourne and Hobart. Respectively, the minimum number of people bought fresh coffee in last four weeks leveled off in Brisbane and Adelaide

To begin with it can be seen that in Sydney people were bought fresh coffee by 44 percent and slightly in melbourne by 43 percent.

moving further, the percentage of bought instant coffee in last 4 weeks was 45 percent by Sydney and slightly in Melbourne by 48 % surprisingly it grew by 54% in Hobart and leveled off by Brisabne.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 3.5

You identify the chart’s subject and include a few relevant figures, such as fresh coffee purchases in Sydney and Melbourne and instant coffee in Hobart. However, the report covers only part of the data and does not provide a sufficiently clear overview of the main patterns. The overview’s claim that café attendance was the same in Melbourne and Hobart is inaccurate: the figures are close, but not identical, at about 63.5% and 63%. You also omit the café series from the detailed comparison and leave the instant-coffee comparison unfinished for Brisbane and Adelaide. The response is 17 words below the required minimum, which further limits its coverage. To improve, report the highest and lowest patterns accurately and compare all three categories across the cities.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.0

There is some basic organisation: an introduction is followed by an overview and two detail paragraphs, and phrases such as “To begin with” and “moving further” signal progression. However, the overall development is incomplete, with the final paragraph ending after “leveled off by Brisbane” and no discussion of Adelaide or café visits. The overview also combines two separate observations in a way that makes the comparison difficult to follow. Some linking expressions feel mechanical rather than showing precise relationships. Organise the details into clear comparisons—for example, fresh coffee across all cities, then instant coffee and café visits—and use linking words to show contrasts or similarities. A complete final paragraph would make the progression more coherent.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use relevant task vocabulary, including “bar graph,” “percentage,” “bought fresh coffee,” and “instant coffee,” so the topic is generally clear. There are also attempts to describe comparisons with “slightly” and “leveled off.” However, the range is limited and some choices are inaccurate or awkward: “maximum number” and “minimum number” refer to people rather than the proportions shown, while “grew” suggests a change over time, which this chart does not show. Spelling errors such as “Hoabrt,” “melbourne,” and “Brisabne” also reduce precision. Use terms such as “proportion,” “highest,” and “lowest,” and describe differences between cities rather than implying a trend over time.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

The response attempts a few longer sentence forms, including “it can be seen that…” and a comparison using “while,” but most sentences rely on simple patterns and several are grammatically faulty. For example, “in Sydney people were bought fresh coffee by 44 percent” uses an incorrect passive construction; write “44% of people in Sydney bought fresh coffee.” In “the percentage of bought instant coffee… was 45 percent by Sydney,” the noun phrase and verb pattern are not formed correctly. There are also missing spaces after punctuation and inconsistent capitalisation at sentence beginnings, as in “overall” and “melbourne.” Practise accurate subject–verb patterns and use a mix of simple and compound sentences to report figures clearly.

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