Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.5 · Cambridge IELTS 14 · 2026-10-23

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

You recently did a short cookery course. The cookery school has asked for your feedback on this course. Write a letter to the course director at the cookery school. In your letter

• describe what you enjoyed about the course
• say how much cooking you've done since the course
• suggest another cookery course you’d like the school to offer

You do NOT need to write any addresses.

Begin your letter as follows:

Dear Sir or Madam,

Student answer (Band 5.5)

Dear sir,

I am writing a letter to provide feedback on the short cookery course that recently attended at your school.

First of all, I really enjoyed this course because the instructor are friendly, help and experiences. Therefore, I really enjoyed this course and i also my junior and they are respect me on my cookery cours . The instructor help me my every mistakes and i get this mistakes gain knowledge and try another day . If i am not understand any words then i said instructor please help me .

Since completely course, I have prepared food at home for everyday. I prepared rice vegetables curry fried rice and many dishes enjoyed at home. I share meals my family members we enjoyed than feel more confident.

I would also suggest your school offer adviced baking in the future. I am interested to learned new cours in the future.

Thank you for providing such a valuable experiences. I look forward at your school.

Your faithfully,

Anita

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0

You address all three required points: you describe the instructor’s support, explain that you have cooked at home since the course, and suggest a baking course. The reader can understand your positive overall response, especially in “I have prepared food at home for everyday” and your request for a future course. However, some ideas are less fully developed or unclear. For example, the comment about your junior respecting you does not clearly explain what you enjoyed, and the baking suggestion would be stronger if you specified a type, such as bread-making or cake decoration. The letter has an appropriate purpose and closing, but use the requested opening, “Dear Sir or Madam,” and make the feedback more precise.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.5

Your letter has a coherent overall arrangement: you begin with the purpose, discuss the course, describe your cooking afterwards, and then make a suggestion. Paragraph breaks help distinguish these points, and phrases such as “First of all” and “Since” signal progression. This meets the lower-band expectation of an organised response and shows some features of stronger progression. However, linking is sometimes mechanical or unclear: “Therefore” repeats the positive point rather than showing a clear result, while “I share meals my family members we enjoyed” makes the relationship between ideas difficult to follow. Improve cohesion by using clear sentence boundaries and pronouns, and connect each paragraph’s details directly to its main point.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

You use enough topic-related vocabulary to communicate the main message, including “instructor,” “prepared food,” “rice,” “vegetables,” “curry,” and “baking.” However, the range is limited and several noticeable word-choice, collocation, and word-form errors make parts of the letter difficult to interpret. For instance, “the instructor are friendly, help and experiences” does not express the intended qualities clearly, and “offer adviced baking” is not a natural way to request a course. Repetition of “enjoyed” also limits variety. Build a bank of accurate cookery and feedback phrases, such as “patient and knowledgeable instructor,” “practised the recipes at home,” and “a baking course,” then check spelling and word forms.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempt both simple sentences and longer structures, including a conditional sentence beginning “If i am not understand…” and a sentence explaining what you have cooked since the course. This shows an effort to vary sentence forms, but control is limited: attempts at longer structures are often faulty, and errors can make the reader work to understand the message. Examples include “the instructor are,” “I get this mistakes,” and “I share meals my family members we enjoyed.” Verb forms, agreement, articles, and sentence boundaries need attention. Practise building accurate sentences with one main clause and a clear subordinate clause, and check each sentence for a subject, a correctly formed verb, and appropriate punctuation.

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