Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Cambridge IELTS 12 · 2026-10-09

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

The maps below show the centre of a small town called Islip as it is now, and plans for its development.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

Student answer (Band 6.0)

The maps illustrate the changes that tooks place in a small town called Islip at the present and in the future.

Overall, Islip town center is going have many significant changes. While some features such as school and housing remained unchanged, several new facilities such as Bus station, shopping center and new housing areas are going to be developed, while park is replaced.

At present, north part of the town is having main features which are shops are on the eitherside of the main road, park and school are in the southern part. The central area is totally occupied by housing. The extented road in the west side connected to the mainroad is the way to school.

In future, the development is majorly planned in the north side of the town centre. The shops are going to converted into bus station, shopping centre, car parking and a very small portion for new housing. The main road is turned into Pedestrians walk way. The shops on the other side of road remained same. A dual carriageway is constructed starting from west side the road is deviated to south and then it is looking like a ring road. There are many changes that are going to take place in the name of development.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.5

You identify the main contrast between the current town centre and the proposed development, and your overview notes that the school and some housing remain while new facilities are added. You also correctly describe the northern shops being replaced and the central road becoming pedestrian-only. However, some important details are incomplete or inaccurate: the park is not replaced, but reduced in size, and the planned southern area includes new housing between existing housing and the park. The bus station, shopping centre and car park are listed, but their west-to-east arrangement is not made clear. Your account of the dual carriageway is also general. More precise coverage of these changes would make the summary more fully developed.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.5

The response has a clear overall structure: an introduction, an overview, a description of the present layout and a paragraph on the plan. This gives the reader a sensible progression from current features to future changes. Linking expressions such as “Overall,” “At present” and “In future” help signal these stages. However, some sentences group several locations together without a clear spatial sequence, and the final sentence—“There are many changes that are going to take place in the name of development”—repeats the general point rather than adding information. The contrast between what remains and what changes could be organised more consistently, for example by describing the northern and southern areas in turn.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use relevant map vocabulary, including “main road,” “dual carriageway,” “pedestrians” and “facilities,” and the reader can generally understand the intended changes. There is some variety in how you describe the plan, but several choices are imprecise or awkward for a formal map summary. “The central area is totally occupied by housing” does not accurately describe the layout, while “a very small portion for new housing” is vague. Spelling and word-form slips such as “tooks,” “eitherside” and “extented” also reduce accuracy. Aim for precise location language and standard collocations, rather than broad phrases such as “in the name of development.”

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempt both simple and more complex sentences, including a contrast in the overview (“While some features…”) and a relative clause in “the road…is the way to school.” However, errors occur across verb forms, articles and sentence construction. For example, “is going have” needs an infinitive marker, “are going to converted” needs a passive form, and “the shops…remained same” has an incorrect tense and missing article. The opening phrase “changes that tooks place…at the present and in the future” also combines an incorrect verb form with an unclear time construction. These errors sometimes make relationships between features less clear. Practise accurate future passive forms and check each sentence for complete, correctly formed clauses.

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