Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer
Overall Band Score: 5.0 · Cambridge IELTS 15 · 2026-10-06
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 given pie chart illustrates the proportion of student who finished their graduation and take a degree from college. The table provides the data on salaries of the anthropologists in work after five years.
Overall, approximately half of the anthropology students do full time work after graduation and in government sector, half of the student earn up to one lakh salary after five years.
Top second priority of the students choose part-time job which was 15 percent and then some of these was unemployed nearly 12 percent. In two sector, full-time postgrad study and not know have same number of graduate students about 8 percent. Remaining 5 percent choose part-time work and postgrad study.
The student which earn the salary between 25 thousand dollars to fifty thousand highest percent in private sector about 10 percent and all the sector has half of the percent. In between 75 thousand dollars to 1 lakh salaries choose freelance consultants about 40 percentage in other sector it was low then this sector. Above 1 lakh salaries the government has 50 percent graduate students.
AI examiner evaluation
| Criterion | Band |
|---|---|
| Task Achievement / Task Response | 5.0 |
| Coherence and Cohesion | 5.0 |
| Lexical Resource | 5.0 |
| Grammatical Range and Accuracy | 4.5 |
| Overall | 5.0 |
Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.0
The response addresses the task only partially. While the writer attempts to summarize both the pie chart and the table, the selection of main features is incomplete and includes inaccurate reporting. For instance, the statement 'in government sector, half of the student earn up to one lakh salary' misinterprets the data, as the 50% figure for the government sector actually refers to the $100,000+ salary bracket. Additionally, the overview is overly simplistic and misses key highlights from the visual data, such as the highest salary tiers for different sectors. Ideas remain limited and under-developed, lacking a comprehensive comparison between the employment destinations and the salary distributions.
Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.0
There is some organization evident through the division of paragraphs into an introduction, overview, and body sections, but there is no clear overall progression of ideas. Cohesive devices are used mechanically and sometimes inaccurately, leading to abrupt transitions between sentences and paragraphs. For example, expressions like 'Top second priority of the students' and 'In two sector' feel unnatural and fail to establish clear logical links. Furthermore, referencing is occasionally unclear, such as when the writer uses ambiguous pronouns like 'these' and 'it' without proper antecedents, making the relationships between the data points difficult for the reader to follow.
Lexical Resource: Band 5.0
The vocabulary used represents a limited but minimally adequate range for the task. The writer attempts some less common terms related to employment and salaries, such as 'freelance consultants', 'government sector', and 'postgrad study'. However, there are noticeable lexical errors in word choice, word form, and collocation, such as 'proportion of student' instead of 'students', 'take a degree' instead of 'earn a degree', and 'one lakh salary' which is informal or culturally specific. These errors, alongside awkward phrasings like 'not know' instead of 'unknown', cause some difficulty for the reader and prevent the response from achieving a higher band.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 4.5
The writer demonstrates a limited range of structures, relying mostly on simple sentences alongside a few clumsy attempts at complex forms. Frequent grammatical errors occur throughout the text, including subject-verb agreement issues ('the student which earn', 'all the sector has'), missing articles ('in government sector'), incorrect prepositions ('salaries between 25 thousand dollars to fifty thousand'), and awkward sentence construction. These frequent errors cause strain for the reader and restrict the grammatical performance to a lower level.
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