Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer
Overall Band Score: 5.5 · Cambridge IELTS 16 · 2026-10-02
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 5.5)
The given both line charts illustrate the proportion of families owned electrical appliances and the relative amount of time they spend doing housework from 1920 and 2019.
Overall, the ownership of three electrical appliances washing machine, refrigerator and vacuum cleaner increased at the time, while people spend time in housework in households steadily decrease all over the year.
According to the graph, 40% of households had washing machine in 1920, which grew significantly to 70% in 1960, despite a slight drop between 1960 to 1980. The ownership of vacuum cleaner started at 30% in 1920, while no families owned refrigerator in this years. After that, both figures grew significantly and last nineteen years ( [redacted phone]) every households owned refrigerator and vacuum cleaner.
According to second graph, 1n 1920, each families work 40 hours per week, after that, in 1980, every families work 20 hours per week, it decreased dramatically to 10 hours per week families worked in 2019 respectively.
AI examiner evaluation
| Criterion | Band |
|---|---|
| Task Achievement / Task Response | 6.0 |
| Coherence and Cohesion | 6.0 |
| Lexical Resource | 5.5 |
| Grammatical Range and Accuracy | 5.0 |
| Overall | 5.5 |
Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0
The response addresses all parts of the prompt by reporting the main features of both charts, such as the overall growth in appliance ownership and the decline in housework hours. However, some aspects are under-developed or contain inaccuracies. For instance, the statement that 'no families owned refrigerator in this years' overlooks the given starting figure of 2% in 1920, and the description of the trends in the second graph is slightly imprecise regarding specific years and figures. While an overview is present, the support for some details lacks precision, placing this response at the targeted band.
Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0
The response maintains a coherent overall arrangement with a clear attempt to structure the essay into an introduction, an overview, and separate paragraphs for each chart. However, cohesion is sometimes mechanical or faulty. Transitions like 'According to the graph' and 'After that' are overused, and referencing is occasionally unclear, such as the ambiguous time reference in 'in this years'. Paragraphing is used to separate ideas, but the logical progression between sentences within paragraphs could be smoother and better managed to reach higher levels.
Lexical Resource: Band 5.5
The vocabulary used is adequate to communicate the main points of the task, meeting the basic requirements. There are several lexical and word-choice errors, such as 'families owned electrical appliances' instead of 'households owning', 'people spend time in housework', and 'every households'. The writer attempts some less common vocabulary like 'proportion', 'significantly', and 'dramatically', but these attempts are accompanied by inaccuracies in word form and collocation, which prevent the lexical score from rising further.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0
The response employs a mix of simple and some complex sentence forms, such as relative clauses ('which grew significantly'). However, there are frequent grammatical errors involving verb tenses, articles, and pluralisation. Examples include 'The given both line charts', 'families owned' instead of 'households owned', 'decrease all over the year' instead of 'decreased over the years', and '1n 1920' with a number-letter substitution. These errors occasionally distract the reader, though they rarely impede overall communication entirely.
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