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 a survey about people buying coffee and tea in the last 4 weeks and their drinking habits in Sydney, Melboure, Brsbane,Adelaide and Hobart australian cities. The unit is measured in percentage.

overall, Brisbane abd Adelaide cities are the least to buy fresh coffee while Bristbane and Hobart people are high bought instant coffee in the last 4 weeks. Hobart is the highest peolpe to go to coffe.

Sydney city 43% people buy fresh coffee which is highest among other cites , while brisbane and adelaide is the least with 32%. futhermore brisbane people prefer to go with instant coffee with 54% whereas the other cities people remains almost same with 48%.

at the other end of scale 63% of melbourne and hobart 62% choose to go in cafe. Brisbane and adelaide cities 55 and 49% people go to cafe for tea or coffee. moveover, sydney stand on the third place with 61% respectively

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0

You identify the chart’s subject and report several relevant comparisons, including café visits being highest in Melbourne and Hobart and lower in Adelaide. Your overview also attempts to highlight patterns across the cities. However, some key details are inaccurate or unclear: Sydney’s fresh-coffee figure is not the highest (Melbourne is close, and Sydney is about 44%), while Brisbane and Adelaide are around 34.5%, not 32%. Brisbane is not the leading city for instant coffee; Hobart is highest, followed by Brisbane. The overview also says Hobart has the most café visits, although Melbourne is marginally higher. More precise comparisons and a clearer summary of the main patterns would make the response more complete and reliable.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0

The response has a recognisable structure: an introduction, an overview, and paragraphs giving figures for coffee purchases and café visits. This makes the information broadly easy to follow. Some links between ideas are less clear, however. The overview’s claims about which cities lead are difficult to reconcile with the later figures, and phrases such as “at the other end of scale” do not clearly signal the comparison being made. The final sentence gives Sydney’s café figure but “respectively” has no clear paired reference. Use more precise transitions and organise each paragraph around a clear comparison, checking that the overview agrees with the details.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

You use some task-relevant vocabulary, including “percentage,” “survey,” “prefer,” and “highest,” so the reader can understand the general topic. However, the range is limited and several word choices or collocations are inaccurate, which makes parts of the report awkward: “the least to buy fresh coffee,” “choose to go in cafe,” and “people remains almost same.” Spelling errors such as “Melboure,” “Brisbane” written as “Brsbane,” and “peolpe” also reduce accuracy. Aim for standard chart language such as “the proportion of residents who bought” and “visited a café,” and check spelling carefully. More precise vocabulary would help distinguish buying habits from café visits.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempt both simple statements and longer comparisons, for example using “while” to contrast fresh-coffee figures. However, sentence structures are limited, and errors in agreement, articles, and sentence construction occur in several places. In “Brisbane and Adelaide is the least,” the plural subject requires “are”; “63% of Melbourne and Hobart choose to go in cafe” needs a clearer grammatical structure and an article before “café.” The opening sentence also lacks consistent sentence-case capitalization and has an awkwardly joined list of cities. Practise accurate comparison patterns, such as “The figures for Brisbane and Adelaide were the lowest,” and vary these with well-controlled complex sentences.

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