Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer
Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Cambridge IELTS 17 · 2026-09-21
IELTS Writing Task 1 question
Your English-speaking friend who lives in your town has asked for your advice about learning a new sport. Write an email to your friend. In your email:
- recommend a new sport that would be suitable for your friend to learn
- explain how your friend could learn this sport
- suggest that you both learn this sport together
You do NOT need to write any addresses.
Begin your letter as follows:
Dear ....................................,
Student answer (Band 6.0)
Dear Friend,
I hope you are doing well. I am writing this email to recommend you a new sport to learn. I was currently looking through all my emails , and when I saw your email, I immediately opened it. Sports play a significant role to keep our body energetic and healthy. I will suggest you Kho-Kho as a sport to learn. Well, I believe you have never heard about this sport because its not that much recognised as an international sport. It is moslty played in India in local areas. It requires around 10-14 persons to play this game. Basically, you need all your friends or family members to play this sport. It will help you to spend more time with your family.
Currently, we both are having hectic schedules, but I am planning to visit you in next month. Whenever we will meet, we will definately play this game together with our families.
Best wishes,
Samanpreet Kaur
AI examiner evaluation
| Criterion | Band |
|---|---|
| Task Achievement / Task Response | 6.5 |
| Coherence and Cohesion | 6.0 |
| Lexical Resource | 6.0 |
| Grammatical Range and Accuracy | 6.0 |
| Overall | 6.0 |
Task Achievement / Task Response — Band 6.5
The response successfully covers all three bullet points required in the task instructions. You begin by appropriately recommending a new sport, Kho-Kho, to your friend. You then explain how this sport can be learned by describing its context, player requirements, and local popularity in India. Finally, you suggest that you both learn and play this sport together during your upcoming visit next month. The tone is friendly and suits a general training email format. Although some ideas like the rules are kept quite general, the purpose of the communication is clearly fulfilled and all prompt requirements are met satisfactorily. Therefore, this performance meets the criteria for Band 6.5, leaning towards Band 7.
Coherence and Cohesion — Band 6.0
The email has a clear overall arrangement and flows quite naturally from the greeting to the closing statement. You use basic cohesive devices adequately, such as 'Well', 'Basically', and 'Currently', to guide the reader through your thoughts. However, the paragraphing is a bit weak, as almost the entire body of the email is clustered into one large paragraph rather than being broken down into logical sections for each point. Referencing is generally clear, though transitional links between sentences could be smoother to achieve a higher band. Overall, the organization is sufficient to ensure the message is easily understood, placing it firmly at Band 6.0.
Lexical Resource — Band 6.0
You demonstrate an adequate range of vocabulary for the task, successfully using terms like 'significant role', 'energetic', 'hectic schedules', and 'recognised'. There are a few noticeable vocabulary and collocation errors, such as 'recommend you a new sport' instead of 'recommend a new sport to you', 'moslty' (spelling error), and 'in next month' instead of 'next month'. Despite these minor lexical inaccuracies and spelling slips, communication is never impeded, and your choice of words is appropriate for an informal email to a friend. These features reflect the characteristics of Band 6.0.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy — Band 6.0
Your writing displays a mix of simple and complex sentence forms, such as 'I was currently looking through all my emails, and when I saw your email, I immediately opened it.' You demonstrate good control over basic tenses, although there is an unnatural use of the past continuous in 'I was currently looking', which should simply be 'I was looking' or 'I recently looked'. Punctuation is generally acceptable, though there are minor spacing errors around commas. While a few grammatical inaccuracies occur, they are non-systematic and do not impede the reader's understanding. This performance is characteristic of Band 6.0.
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