Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.5 · Cambridge IELTS 16 · 2026-10-18

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 charts illustrate the ownership of three household electrical items, namely, washing machine, refrigerator and vacuum cleaner; moreover, total hours spending on domestic work on weekly basis from 1920 to 2019.

Overall, over the years, an incline percentage had been shown in terms of purchasing all three elctronic devices. While the dependency on electric domestic devices had been increased, a sharp fall was witnessed in household domestic works during the same period.

It is clear that the highest percentage of having household work helping electronics was washing machine, at 40%, where the refrigerator was the loweet, at 0% in 1920. After 20 years of interval, the purchasing rate had been rose up by 20% both for washing machine and vaccum cleaner. whereas the freezer ownership rocked up to nearly 45%. In 1960, the household percentage in having vaccum cleaner and washing machine were same which was 70%. However, the refrigerator had subsequently increased at 90% in 1960, followed by 100% in 1980. In 2000, the vaccum cleaner was also at 100% along with refrigerator but the proportion of washing machine was at 70% after facing a slight decline. Moreover, in 2019, the vaccum cleaner and refrigerator were at 100%, whereas the washing machine was just above 70%.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.5

You identify the three appliances and the broad contrast with housework, and you report several key appliance figures accurately, including the washing machine’s 40% starting point, the refrigerator reaching 100% by 1980, and two appliances being at 100% in 2000 and 2019. However, the overview is imprecise: ownership did not rise continuously for every item, since washing-machine ownership dipped from 70% to 65% in 1980. More importantly, although housework is introduced and mentioned in the overview, its substantial decline from 50 to 11 hours is not described in the body. Some details are also inaccurate or unclear: the refrigerator was about 2%, not 0%, in 1920, and the 1940 vacuum-cleaner figure was 50%, not a 20-point rise. Include the second chart’s trend and use precise comparisons.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0

The response has a recognisable structure: an introduction, an overview and a detailed paragraph, with information generally moving forward chronologically. Linking expressions such as “After 20 years,” “However” and “Moreover” help signal sequence and contrast. However, the final paragraph focuses almost entirely on appliance ownership and does not develop the housework data, so the two charts are not balanced in the organisation. Some connections are also awkward or unclear, particularly “where the refrigerator was the loweet” and “After 20 years of interval,” which make relationships between figures harder to follow. Grouping the appliance trends together and giving the housework trend its own concise comparison would create clearer progression. Use transitions only where they accurately express the relationship between the data.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use some relevant task vocabulary, including “ownership,” “percentage,” “decline” and “proportion,” and you attempt a range of expressions to describe change. However, several word choices and collocations are inaccurate or unnatural, such as “an incline percentage,” “hours spending on domestic work,” “purchasing rate” and “household work helping electronics.” These choices sometimes obscure the intended meaning. There are also spelling errors in “elctronic,” “loweet” and “vaccum,” and “freezer” is not the appliance shown in the chart; it should be “refrigerator.” Aim for precise, conventional chart language, for example “the proportion of households owning…” and “weekly hours spent on housework.” This would make the description clearer and more appropriately formal.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You attempt both simple and complex sentences, including a contrast structure beginning “While…” and clauses introduced by “whereas” and “which.” The main meaning is usually recoverable, but errors in verb forms, agreement and sentence construction are noticeable. For example, “hours spending on domestic work” needs a grammatical form such as “hours spent doing housework,” while “the purchasing rate had been rose up” combines incompatible verb forms. In “the household percentage … were same,” the subject and verb do not agree, and the article is missing before “same.” Some sentence boundaries and punctuation also need attention, as in “vaccum cleaner. whereas…”. Practise accurate past-tense descriptions and check subject–verb agreement, articles and clause punctuation while retaining your attempts at varied structures.

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