Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer
Overall Band Score: 5.0 · Cambridge IELTS 15 · 2026-10-03
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 5.0)
The chart illustrates the proportion of the direction that students from anthropology department of a university chose after completion of their undergraduate degrees. However, the table demonstrates the salaries of graduates who served for almost five years in anthropology industry.
Overall, anthropologists who started working full-time accounted for the highest amoong all, whereas part-time workers and unemployed students were found to be the second common categories, although salaries of the senior anthropologists varied according to the type of employment they had in their careers.
In terms of career prospects, students who started doing full-time employments found to be the highest at 52%, while those who prefered doing part-time work figured the second leading category
AI examiner evaluation
| Criterion | Band |
|---|---|
| Task Achievement / Task Response | 3.5 |
| Coherence and Cohesion | 5.0 |
| Lexical Resource | 5.5 |
| Grammatical Range and Accuracy | 5.5 |
| Overall | 5.0 |
Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 3.5
The response fails to meet the minimum length requirement of 150 words, stopping at only 114 words. Consequently, the task is only partially addressed. While the writer attempts to provide an overview and report some features from the charts, the information remains incomplete and underdeveloped. Key data from the table regarding salaries across different types of employment is entirely omitted, and the summary cuts off mid-sentence at the end of the third paragraph. To achieve a higher band, the writer must ensure the response is sufficiently long to cover all parts of the prompt, including both the destinations chart and the salary table, with well-developed supporting data.
Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.0
The response shows some basic organization with an introductory paragraph, an overview, and the start of a detail paragraph, but there is no clear overall progression due to the incomplete nature of the writing. Cohesive devices are limited and mechanical, with transitions like 'Overall' and 'In terms of' used in a somewhat formulaic manner. Paragraphing is attempted, but the final paragraph is abruptly cut off. For improvement, the writer needs to ensure that ideas are fully developed and logically sequenced from introduction to a proper conclusion, using a wider and more natural range of cohesive markers to guide the reader smoothly through the response.
Lexical Resource: Band 5.5
The vocabulary used is adequate for basic communication, featuring attempts at less common items such as 'proportion', 'anthropologists', and 'career prospects'. However, there are noticeable lexical inaccuracies and awkward phrasing, such as 'anthropology department of a university' (missing articles) and 'anthropology industry' (collocational error). There is also a spelling slip ('prefered' instead of preferred) and a word form error ('amoong'). To improve, the writer should focus on precise word choices and correct collocations relevant to academic data reporting, while ensuring proper spelling and accurate word forms.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5
The writer demonstrates a limited range of sentence structures, attempting a mix of simple and complex forms with varying success. There are several grammatical errors that disrupt the flow, such as missing articles ('from anthropology department'), incorrect passive constructions ('found to be the highest' instead of were found to be), and preposition misuse. Punctuation is also incomplete, as the final sentence lacks a concluding full stop. To reach a higher band, the writer needs to increase grammatical accuracy, particularly with verb forms, voice, and articles, and produce a higher proportion of error-free complex sentences.
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