Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Cambridge IELTS 12 · 2026-10-14

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 bar chart illustrattes the frequency with people in United States consumed fast food over a ten year period during 2003 to 2013.

Overall, the majority of Americans ate at fast food once a week or once twice a month, which represented the most popular choices accross all year. Additionally eating fast food daily or never visiting these resturants remained the least common habitts throughout the whole process.

Weekly and monthly, eating fast food once a week started at 31% in 2003, and peaked at 33% in 2006, and decreased at 28% in 2013. Moreover, eating it once or twice a month moved from 30% in 2003 down to 25% in 2006, then rose to 33% in 2013. Those consuming it several time a week flucated between 16% and 20% over the period.

In addition, consumers eating fast food a few times a year remained steady around 13% to 15%.The extremes of eating fast every day or never staying at the bottom, both holding below 5% throughout the 10-year period.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 7.0

You identify the main pattern accurately: weekly and monthly visits were the most common, while daily visits and never eating fast food were the least common. The overview is supported by relevant comparisons, and the figures for once a week and once or twice a month are reported correctly, including their changes across the three years. You also capture the broad range for several-times-a-week visits and the relative stability of occasional visits. This is a clear, well-supported account of the key features. To make the report more precise, distinguish the two lowest categories: daily eating was 3–4%, while never eating was about 3.5–4.5%, rather than implying both stayed below 5% as though their patterns were identical. Also specify the years behind the several-times-a-week range.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.5

The response is organised into an introduction, a clear overview and two detail paragraphs, with information grouped by frequency. The progression from the most common patterns to less frequent categories is easy to follow, and linking expressions such as “Overall,” “Moreover” and “In addition” help signal relationships. This gives the report a coherent structure. However, some transitions feel mechanical, and the opening phrase “Weekly and monthly” is not a complete or especially clear link into the figures. The final sentence also combines the two least common categories without explaining their small differences. For stronger cohesion, use more precise references and vary the links by showing contrast or change, rather than relying mainly on additive connectors.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use relevant task vocabulary, including “frequency,” “majority,” “peaked,” “decreased” and “remained steady,” so the main trends are generally understandable. However, the range and control are limited by repeated or imprecise phrasing, such as “eating fast food” and “the extremes of eating fast every day or never.” Several spelling errors—“illustrattes,” “accross,” “resturants,” “habitts” and “flucated”—are noticeable and weaken the accuracy of the vocabulary. There are also awkward collocations, including “frequency with people” and “consuming it several time a week.” Aim for accurate, natural combinations and check spelling carefully; this will make your descriptions more precise without requiring unnecessarily complex vocabulary.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You attempt a mix of sentence forms, including a complex overview sentence and sentences that compare changes across years. The main information remains understandable, but grammatical control is uneven. For example, “the frequency with people in United States consumed” has an incorrect structure and is missing an article, while “once twice a month” omits “or.” In “Those consuming it several time a week flucated between 16% and 20%,” the participle construction and singular “time” are not well controlled. The final sentence, “The extremes … staying at the bottom,” is also an incomplete construction. Work on complete sentence patterns, articles, plural forms and consistent verb structures; accurate versions of these sentences would make the report easier to read.

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