Band 6.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.5 · Cambridge IELTS 15 · 2026-11-13

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

A museum near your home is looking for people to do part-time voluntary/unpaid work. You would like to do some voluntary/unpaid work at the museum. Write a letter to the museum director to apply for the voluntary/unpaid work. In your letter

• explain why you want to do voluntary/unpaid work at the museum
• describe some skills and qualities you have that would be useful
• give details of when you would be available for work

You do NOT need to write any addresses.

Begin your letter as follows:

Dear Sir or Madam,

Student answer (Band 6.5)

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am writing to apply for the job as a part-time voluntary unpaid work in your museum.

I would like to do this work because I enjoy helping other and museum have different tranditional statues that give a emotinal happiness. Working in museum would help to see them on daily basis.In additon,I would like to contribute to save our traditional belongings.

I have experience of librarian, so i could help in record keeping.Moreover, i could do cleaning,and gardening in museum garden if required.I can help visitors to learn and get knowledge about statues if needed.

I will be available from Monday to Friday between 9:00 am and 3:00 pm.However, I will not be able to work on weekends because i spend that time with my family and have other commitments.On top of that, i can only work for 6 months because after that i have to go back to my school.

I hope to hearing back from you soon.

Yours faithfully,

Deepak Sharma

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 7.0

You address all three requested points: you explain your motivation, identify relevant abilities, and give clear working hours and a six-month availability period. The application purpose is clear from the opening, and the reason about helping preserve traditional objects gives the letter a relevant personal focus. Your librarian experience and willingness to assist visitors also support your application. To make the ideas more fully developed, explain briefly what your library duties involved or how you would help visitors, rather than listing these contributions. The reason for choosing unpaid work could also be made more specific. Overall, the letter fulfils the task clearly, with some ideas supported more fully than others.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 7.0

The letter follows a clear, useful sequence: application and motivation, relevant experience and possible duties, availability, then a polite closing. Paragraphing helps the reader distinguish these stages, and connectors such as “Moreover,” “However,” and “On top of that” make relationships between ideas clear. The progression is easy to follow throughout. Some linking is a little mechanical, however, because several sentences begin with a connector, and the motivation paragraph moves quickly between helping others, viewing the statues, and preserving heritage. Grouping related reasons more smoothly and using a few pronouns or other references to avoid repeating “museum” and “I” would make the cohesion more flexible and natural.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

Your vocabulary is sufficient to communicate the application and includes relevant terms such as “record keeping,” “visitors,” “traditional belongings,” and “commitments.” However, noticeable spelling, word-form, and collocation problems limit precision: “tranditional,” “emotinal,” and “additon” are misspelled, while “a emotinal happiness” and “experience of librarian” are not natural expressions. “Job as a part-time voluntary unpaid work” is also awkwardly phrased. These choices do not prevent the reader from understanding your main points, but they make the letter less fluent and professional. Build accuracy by checking spelling and learning common combinations such as “volunteer at a museum,” “library experience,” and “preserve cultural heritage.”

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You use a mixture of simple sentences and some longer structures, including “because I enjoy…” and “because after that I have to…,” so the message is not limited to isolated statements. However, errors in sentence construction and grammatical forms occur often enough to reduce accuracy. For example, “museum have” needs subject–verb agreement, “helping other” needs a plural noun, and “I hope to hearing” uses the wrong verb form. Articles are also missing or incorrect in phrases such as “in museum” and “a emotinal happiness.” Punctuation and spacing are inconsistent, as in “basis.In additon” and “record keeping.Moreover.” Practise accurate articles, agreement, and verb patterns, then proofread sentence boundaries.

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