Band 4.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 4.0 · Cambridge IELTS 16 · 2026-09-15

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

The charts below show the changes in ownership of electrical appliances and amount of time spent doing housework in households in one country between 1920 and 2019.

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

Percentage of households with electrical appliances (1920-2019)

Student answer (Band 4.0)

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AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response — Band 4.0

The response is severely under-length, containing only 83 words compared to the required minimum of 150 words. As a result, the student only partially addresses the task. While an attempt is made to provide an overview ("ownership of all three electrical appliances increased substantially... while the time spent on housework declined sharply"), the details are severely truncated, fragmentary, and cut off mid-sentence ("ownership three appliances were the reach all most"). Key trends and comparisons are left undeveloped, and the response fails to properly report the final data points for 2019.

Coherence and Cohesion — Band 4.0

The text suffers from a lack of proper paragraphing, punctuation, and structural organization. Sentences run together without periods or capital letters (e.g., "...and the piateaued in 1920 washing machines..."), making the logical progression very difficult to follow. Cohesive devices are largely absent due to the incomplete nature of the response. The writing breaks down entirely towards the end into disjointed clauses.

Lexical Resource — Band 4.0

Vocabulary usage is basic and marred by severe spelling and word-formation errors throughout the text (e.g., "trents" for trends, "owership" for ownership, "houswork" for housework, "piateaued" for plateaued). The student attempts some task-relevant vocabulary such as "ownership", "appliances", and "increased", but the high frequency of typographical and lexical errors significantly impedes comprehension.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy — Band 4.0

The grammatical range is extremely limited, and there is an almost complete absence of correct punctuation. Sentences lack terminal punctuation, leading to massive run-on structures. Clauses are frequently incomplete or grammatically broken (e.g., "...while vacuum cleaners were owned by 1940 all three appliances were owned by..."). Frequent, dense grammatical errors disrupt the flow and obscure meaning entirely.

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