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 diagram below shows how instant noodles are manufactured.

Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

Student answer (Band 5.0)

The diagram illustrates information about how noodles are manufactured and processing methods that are used for manufacturing noodles. Overall, there are eight steps involved in this manufacturing. Starting with storage silos and end up with labels plus seaking.

In the first stage of making noodles, flour transfered from silos to mixer with the help of truck. Afterthat, flour mixed with water and oil in the mixer machine and transfered to dough sheets with the help of roller. Dough sheets

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 3.5

You identify the process as having eight stages and begin describing the movement from the silos to the mixer, which is relevant to the diagram. However, the response is incomplete: it stops at “Dough sheets” and does not report the later stages—forming strips and noodle discs, cooking and drying, adding vegetables and spices, or labelling and sealing. The overview’s claim that the process ends with “labels plus seaking” is also unclear and does not summarise the finished product. The required minimum of 150 words is not met; at 79 words, the response leaves most of the process unreported. To improve, give a clear overview of the start and end points, then describe all major stages in sequence using the diagram’s details.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.0

There is a basic attempt to organise the response: an opening overview is followed by a paragraph beginning “In the first stage,” and the sequence is introduced with “Overall” and “Afterthat.” These signals help the reader recognise that the subject is a process. However, progression is limited because the account ends abruptly after “Dough sheets,” and the final fragment is not developed into a complete sentence. The overview and the first-stage description are also not clearly separated into a complete, purposeful structure. Use distinct paragraphs for the overview and the stages, and connect each stage with accurate sequencing phrases such as “Next,” “The dough is then cut,” and “Finally.”

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

The response uses some relevant process vocabulary, including “storage silos,” “mixer,” “dough sheets,” and “roller,” so the reader can identify the early stages being described. However, the range is narrow and several choices or spellings are inaccurate, which makes parts of the meaning unclear. For example, “seaking” appears to be an attempt at “sealing,” while “transfered” and “Afterthat” are misspelled or incorrectly written. “Processing methods that are used for manufacturing noodles” is also repetitive and less direct than needed. Build a wider set of precise terms from the diagram—such as “dough strips,” “noodle discs,” “cooking and drying,” and “labelling”—and check spelling and natural word combinations.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempt both a simple overview and a longer sentence describing the first stages, but grammatical control is uneven. In “Overall, there are eight steps involved in this manufacturing,” the noun phrase is incomplete or unnatural; “in the manufacturing process” would be clearer. The sentence “Starting with storage silos and end up with labels plus seaking” is not a complete, correctly formed sentence. In “flour mixed with water and oil,” the passive verb needs an auxiliary (“is mixed”), and “flour transfered” similarly needs a correctly formed passive construction. The final “Dough sheets” is a fragment. Practise complete passive sentences for process descriptions, maintaining consistent present tense and including the necessary auxiliary verbs and articles.

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