Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.0 · Cambridge IELTS 15 · 2026-10-30

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 illustrates the result of a survey about peoples,s coffee and tea buying and drinking habits in sydney,meilbourne ,brisbane ,adelaide and hobart australian cities.Overall it is clear that highest city has melboune in cafe for coffee or tea.The second grow city has hobart in instant coffee.The lowest city has brisbane and adeiaide of 4 weeks.

In context of cafe for coffee or tea high drinking habits city has melbourne at around at 63%.The sechond cafe for caffe or tea drinikng city has hobart .It is at around 62 %.The low drinking city has brisbane and adelaide at around 56 and 50 %. Instant coffee second grow drinking city is hobart at around 58%.The brisbane and adelaide has at aroound 53 and 50 %.The lowest instant coffee drinikng city has sydney and melbourne at around 47 between 45 %.

In context of fresh coffee drining high city has sydney at around 43 %.The second group city has melbourne .It is around 42 %.The fresh coffee in low driking city is brisbane and adelaide .This is a similar percentages drining cities at around 33%.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.5

You identify the three survey activities and make some relevant comparisons, including that café visits were high in Melbourne and Hobart and that fresh-coffee purchases were lower in Brisbane and Adelaide. However, the overview is unclear and includes inaccurate rankings: Melbourne, not Hobart, had the highest café figure, while Hobart had the highest instant-coffee figure. You also describe Sydney and Melbourne as the lowest for instant coffee, although Sydney was lower than both and Melbourne was above Brisbane and Adelaide. Several figures are misreported, such as Hobart instant coffee at about 58% rather than roughly 55%, and the fresh-coffee figures for Brisbane and Adelaide are closer to 34.5% than 33%. A clearer overview and more accurate selection of key comparisons would strengthen the response.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.5

The response has a basic structure: an opening overview followed by paragraphs about café visits, instant coffee and fresh coffee. This gives the reader some sense of how the information is grouped. However, progression within the paragraphs is difficult to follow because comparisons are presented in a repetitive, list-like way, and phrases such as “The second grow city” and “The lowest city” do not clearly explain what is being ranked. Linking expressions such as “In context of” are repeated and do not establish precise relationships between the data. Use a concise overview, then organise the details into clear comparisons—for example, café visits versus purchases, or the highest and lowest cities for each category—and use accurate references to connect the figures.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

You use some task-relevant vocabulary, including “survey,” “instant coffee,” “fresh coffee,” “around,” and “percentages,” so the reader can recognise the subject and categories. However, the range is limited and several repeated or inaccurate phrases make comparisons hard to interpret. Expressions such as “second grow city,” “high drinking habits city,” and “lowest city” are not natural ways to describe survey rankings; “second-highest proportion” or “lowest percentage” would be clearer. There are also frequent spelling errors, including “melboune,” “adeiaide,” and “drinikng,” which reduce precision. Aim to use a small set of accurate chart-reporting terms consistently, and check spelling and collocations before submitting.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 4.5

The response mainly uses short, simple statements, with limited control of more varied sentence structures. Some basic meaning is conveyed, but frequent errors in sentence formation and agreement make several comparisons difficult to understand. For example, “The second grow city has hobart in instant coffee” lacks a clear grammatical structure, while “The brisbane and adelaide has” has a subject–verb agreement problem. Articles and prepositions are also often missing or misplaced, as in “high city has sydney” and “at around at 63%.” Punctuation and capitalisation are inconsistent, particularly in the city names and opening sentence. Practise forming complete comparison sentences with a clear subject and verb, then check agreement, articles and sentence boundaries.

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