Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Cambridge IELTS 12 · 2026-10-13

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 middle area of a small city named Islip, its present condition, and planned development of the same centre.

Overall, there will be built dual carriageway around the centre. On the north side, the shops will replaced with bus station, shopping centre, and car parking area. The main road wil be reserve for pedestrians. As school, housing, and park will remain on the map with a subtle changes.

Firstly, the most striking change is that there will built a dual carriageway around the centre. The countryside area will be removed from the map. The shops which are along the country side will reconstructed, and divided into a bus station, a large shopping centre, a car park, along with a new housing society on the north-east side. The main road which is surrounded by shops will specified for pedestrians in future.

Furthermore, some areas as, shops on the other side of the road will remain unchanged. Also school, housing, park will remain on their existed locations with slightly differences. A new housing also built on the left side of the park.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.5

You identify the main transformation clearly: a dual carriageway is planned around the centre, the northern shops are replaced by transport and retail facilities, and the central road becomes pedestrian-only. You also note that southern shops remain and that new housing is added. These points give the response a relevant overview and cover the principal changes. However, some details are inaccurate or insufficiently precise: the countryside is not simply “removed”; the school and some housing remain outside the new loop, while the park is reduced rather than unchanged. The location of the new housing is also described inconsistently as north-east and “on the left side” of the park. More exact comparisons of what remains, changes, or moves would make the account more complete.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0

The response has a clear overall structure, with an introduction, an overview, and two paragraphs describing changes. Sequencing words such as “Overall,” “Firstly,” and “Furthermore” help signal the stages of the description, and the reader can follow the broad contrast between the northern and southern areas. However, the progression is sometimes mechanical, and several details are repeated: the dual carriageway and pedestrian-only road appear in both the overview and the first body paragraph without adding much further information. References such as “the other side of the road” and “their existed locations” are not fully clear. Grouping features by location and using more precise references would strengthen the flow and connections between ideas.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use a relevant range of map vocabulary, including “dual carriageway,” “pedestrians,” “reconstructed,” and “remain unchanged,” and the main meaning is generally understandable. There are, however, noticeable problems with word choice, collocation, and spelling that reduce precision. For example, “middle area” and “small city” are less suitable than “town centre” and “small town,” while “new housing society” does not naturally describe a housing area on a map. “Country side” is also incorrectly written as two words in this context, and “wil” is misspelled. Aim for concise, conventional map-description terms and check spelling; this will make your descriptions more natural and exact.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempt a mixture of simple sentences and longer clauses, including relative clauses such as “The main road which is surrounded by shops…” This shows some range, but grammatical control is inconsistent, and errors occur in several sentence patterns. For example, “the shops will replaced” and “there will built” omit the required passive form, while “As school, housing, and park will remain” has problems with articles and sentence construction. In “A new housing also built,” the verb form is incomplete. Work on future passive structures (“will be replaced”), articles before singular countable nouns, and complete verb phrases. More accurate control of these common patterns would make the information easier to read.

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