Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

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

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

The chart below shows how frequently people in the USA ate in fast food restaurants between 2003 and 2013.

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

 

Student answer (Band 6.0)

The given bar graph compares the percentage of fast food consumption by people in hotels during the time period between 2003 to 2013.

Overall, the higher proportion was seen in categories known as once a week and once or twice a month over the period, whereas moderate proportions shared by several times a week and a few times a year groups.

Never and every remained at lower levels.

Commencing from once a week category, in 2003 the fast food consumption rate was above 30%, it rose in 2006 figured about 33% and in 2013 it pleatued at below 30%. Subsequently, people who ate fast food once or twice a month was 30% in 2003, it declined at 25% in 2006 and it peaked at between 30 and 35% in 2013. Furthermore, several times a week consumers were more than 15%, they went upward and made up 20% in 2006 and in 2013 it dropped at just above 15%. Moreover, a few time a year eaters were at 13% it increased to 15% in 2006 and 2013.

In contrast, the individuals who never experienced junk food were 5% in 2003 and plummated to 4% in rest of years. Every day eaters were 4% in 2003 and declined to 3% till end of the period.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0

You identify the main pattern that weekly and monthly eating were the most common frequencies, while daily eating and never eating were least common. You also report several key changes, including the weekly figure peaking in 2006 and monthly eating rising to its highest level in 2013. However, some details are imprecise: the 2013 monthly figure is about 33%, rather than merely “between 30 and 35%,” and the 2003 weekly figure is about 31%. The overview also calls the middle categories “moderate” without clearly summarising the notable shift from weekly eating being most common in 2003 and 2006 to monthly eating in 2013. Correcting these details and making the overall comparison more explicit would strengthen the report.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0

The response has a clear overall arrangement: an introduction, an overview, and paragraphs describing the more and less common frequencies. This makes the information generally easy to follow. Sequencing expressions such as “Furthermore,” “Moreover,” and “In contrast” help signal relationships, although several are used mechanically, and “Subsequently” does not clearly describe the comparison between categories. The overview’s grouping of “moderate proportions” is also vague, so the reader has to infer how those categories compare. Improve progression by grouping the figures more deliberately—for example, discuss the weekly-to-monthly shift together, then cover the less common frequencies—and use linking phrases only when they express a precise relationship.

Lexical Resource: Band 6.0

You use a reasonable range of vocabulary for describing data, including “proportion,” “declined,” “peaked,” and “consumers,” and the meaning is usually clear. There are also attempts at less common wording, but some choices are inaccurate or unnatural: “fast food consumption rate” is less precise than the percentage of people eating at a given frequency, while “plummated” is a misspelling and “pleatued” is not the intended word. “People in hotels” also misrepresents the chart’s population, which is people in the USA. Aim for accurate, natural collocations and check spelling, especially in key trend verbs. Using the chart’s category labels consistently will also make the comparisons more precise.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You attempt a mix of simple and complex sentences, and the sequence of past-tense descriptions is generally understandable. Some grammatical errors remain, particularly in sentence structure and agreement. For example, “people who ate fast food once or twice a month was 30%” has a plural subject with a singular verb, and the sentence joining this with “it declined” is a comma splice. “They went upward and made up 20%” also has an unclear pronoun reference. Use a clear subject for each figure, such as “The proportion eating fast food several times a week rose to 20% in 2006,” and separate independent clauses with a full stop or a suitable conjunction. More consistently controlled complex sentences would improve accuracy.

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