Band 4.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 4.0 · Cambridge IELTS 15 · 2026-09-30

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

The chart below shows what Anthropology graduates from one university did after finishing their undergraduate degree course. The table shows the salaries of the anthropologists in work after five years.

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

Student answer (Band 4.0)

The chart illustrates the student of anthropology from one university did after finishing their undergraduate degree course.The table shows the salaries of unthropologists in work after five year.

Overall,The anthropology student after graduates from the university most of the student choose the

full time work.

First of all, the student gain main destination is full time work. The 52% student are choose the part time work.the most of the student is final destination is full time work.And the next is part time work almost15% student join in this. The Not known and full time is equally same the 8% join in this category.The free and unemployed students is 12%. And we go Almost the last destination is part time work and postgrad study is low percentage the 5% student are only join.

In the next step salaries of anthropology in the private sector around 30%earned over$[redacted phone],compared to only10% freelance and 5%goverment workers. on the other hand , about 50%of goverment employees earned between$25000 and$75000.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 4.5

The student attempts to address the prompt by summarizing both the chart and the table, but the execution falls short of Band 5 requirements due to numerous inaccuracies and a lack of clear data reporting. For instance, the text states 'The 52% student are choose the part time work,' which confuses the main category (full-time work at 52%) with part-time work (15%). Furthermore, important data points are misreported or garbled, such as claiming that 'almost 50% of government employees earned between $25000 and $75000' (the table actually shows 50% earned $100,000+ in the government sector, with 30% earning $75,000-$99,999). While the student does mention some figures from both the chart and the table, the information is largely disjointed, poorly interpreted, and lacks a coherent overview of the main trends.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 4.0

The response shows severe deficiencies in coherence and cohesion. The text is broken up by erratic spacing and formatting, and paragraphing is ineffective, with ideas lumped together confusingly. While the student attempts some basic cohesive devices like 'Overall' and 'First of all,' the logical progression breaks down immediately due to repetitive phrasing ('final destination is full time work') and unclear referencing. Sentences often contradict one another or fail to connect logically to the preceding statement, resulting in a text that is difficult to follow. There is no clear overall progression or structure expected for an academic report.

Lexical Resource: Band 4.0

The lexical range is very limited and basic, with frequent word-choice and word-form errors that impede communication. Examples include 'unthropologists,' 'graduates' used as a noun in 'after graduates from,' and awkward phrasing like 'join in this category' and 'The free and unemployed students.' There are also noticeable errors in copying terms directly from the visual data without proper grammatical integration. Vocabulary is repetitive, relying heavily on words like 'student,' 'destination,' and 'work,' without demonstrating the ability to use less common lexical items accurately or appropriately for an academic task.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 4.0

Grammatical control is weak throughout the response, corresponding to a Band 4 level. The text contains frequent, severe errors in basic sentence structure, subject-verb agreement, and tense usage. Examples include 'The chart illustrates the student of anthropology... did after finishing' (incorrect singular/plural agreement), 'The 52% student are choose' (serious error combining auxiliary verbs and main verbs), and missing prepositions or articles throughout ('earned over $100000,compared to only10% freelance and 5%goverment workers'). Simple sentences are often malformed, and attempts at more complex structures result in completely ungrammatical or incomprehensible clauses. Punctuation and spacing are also erratic.

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