Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.5 · Cambridge IELTS 15 · 2026-11-04

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 graph illustrates the result of survey about people's who are buying coffe and tea in Sydney ,Melbourne , Brisbane , Adelaide and Hobart.

Overall, people who went to cafe for coffe or tea in last 4 weeks was the highest and the proportion of people who buy the fresh coffee is last 4 week is the least in all five cities.

The proportion of the people who went to cafe for coffee and tea in last 4 weeks dominated overall in all four cities except Adelaid.The consumptionof tea and coffee reached the highest almost 63% in Melborne and Hobart. The number of people buying instant coffe was the seond highest in survey. People buying instant coffe in sydeny about 45% melbourne 48% brisbane 53% and saw slight decline 50% in adelaide and the 59% all time high in this category.

People buing fresh coffee keep decling in all five cites ans was lowest in brisbane and adeliade 43%.In sydeny 44% people an in melbourne 41% people buy fresh coffe and at last hobart where 37% people buy fresh coffee

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.5

You identify the main pattern that café visits were generally the most popular activity and fresh coffee purchases were usually lower, and you include figures for all three categories. However, the overview is not fully accurate: café visits were not highest in Adelaide, but the response says this was true in all cities except Adelaide; in fact, instant coffee was slightly higher there. The claim that fresh coffee was lowest in Brisbane and Adelaide at 43% also misreports the chart: both were about 34.5%, while Hobart was higher. The final instant-coffee figure of 59% for Hobart is also inaccurate; it was about 54.5%. These errors, along with limited comparison of the cities, leave some key features unclear and the task only partly addressed.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.5

The response has a recognisable structure, with an introduction, an overview and separate discussion of café visits, instant coffee and fresh coffee. This gives the reader some sense of how the information is grouped. However, progression within the body paragraphs is uneven: the café paragraph shifts to instant coffee, and the fresh-coffee paragraph lists cities without a clear comparative pattern. Linking is limited, and phrases such as “The number of people buying instant coffee was the second highest” do not clearly connect to the preceding point. Some references are also difficult to follow, particularly “this category” and “all time high.” Grouping each activity consistently and using clear comparisons between cities would make the organisation easier to follow.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

You use relevant chart vocabulary, including “proportion,” “survey,” “highest,” “lowest” and “decline,” so the topic is generally understandable. However, the range is limited and several word choices or collocations are inaccurate, such as “consumption of tea and coffee” when the chart reports survey behaviours, and “people who are buying” for a past four-week period. Repetition of “people,” “buy” and “coffee” also makes the account less precise. Spelling errors—including “coffe,” “seond,” “sydeny” and “adeliade”—are noticeable and sometimes slow the reader. Aim for accurate forms such as “residents who purchased” and “the proportion who visited a café,” and check spelling carefully.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

The response attempts both simple statements and longer sentences, and the overall meaning can usually be recovered. However, the range is limited, and errors occur frequently in sentence structure, verb forms, articles and agreement. For example, “The proportion of the people who went to cafe … was the highest” has awkward construction and missing article use, while “people buying instant coffee in Sydney about 45%” is not a complete sentence. The phrase “people who are buying” also uses an unsuitable tense for the period described. Punctuation and spacing are inconsistent, especially in the city-by-city figures. Practise writing complete comparative sentences with a clear subject and verb, and use past-tense forms consistently when describing the survey period.

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