Band 7.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 7.0 · Cambridge IELTS 12 · 2026-10-17

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 7.0)

The bar chart illustrates how often people in America ate at fast food restaurants in three specific years: 2003, 2006, and 2013.

Overall, it is evident that eating fast once a week and once or twice a month remained the most popular trends. In contrast the daily eating and never eating accounted for the lowest percentages across the entire period.

Looking at the details, in 2003, about 31% of the Americans ate fast food once a week. This category witnessed a small increase to 33% in 2006, before dropping to slightly 28% in 2013. Similarly, the proportion of people eating junk food once or twice a month stayed stable at around 30% and 25% respectively in the first two years, but peaked at 33% in 2013.

Conversely, the figure for daily consumers were very low. The percentage of daily eaters witnessed a decline form 4% to 3% over the decade. Subsequently, the ratio of Americans who never ate also faced a decline from 5% to 4% during the entire period.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0

You identify the main pattern that weekly and monthly visits were the most common, while daily visits and never eating were least common. You also report the key weekly figures accurately (31%, 33%, then 28%) and note the monthly category’s rise to 33% in 2013. However, the overview is somewhat broad: these two leading categories did not remain equally popular, as monthly visits fell to 25% in 2006 before becoming the most common in 2013. Several relevant categories are omitted, especially eating several times a week and a few times a year, so the account covers the chart unevenly. Some figures are also imprecise: daily eating was 4%, 3%, and 3%, while never eating was about 4.5%, 3.5%, and 3.5%, rather than declining throughout. Include these trends and sharpen the overview around the changing peak.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 7.5

The response is clearly organised into an introduction, an overview, and two detail paragraphs, with a sensible progression from the main categories to less common behaviours. Linking expressions such as “Overall,” “Similarly,” and “Conversely” help signal relationships, and the comparisons between 2003, 2006, and 2013 are generally easy to follow. This shows strong control of organisation and cohesion. To make the progression more complete, group the data systematically—for example, discuss the two most common frequencies together, then cover the remaining categories—rather than moving directly from the leading categories to daily and never. “Subsequently” is not quite suitable for describing the final comparison, since it suggests a sequence of events rather than simply reporting another category. More precise transitions and fuller coverage would make the structure even more effective.

Lexical Resource: Band 6.5

You use a reasonable range of task-related vocabulary, including “proportion,” “percentage,” “decline,” and “peaked,” and the meaning is generally clear. There is some flexibility in referring to the chart’s categories, but a few choices are imprecise or unnatural for formal data reporting. “Eating fast” is an incomplete expression, while “junk food” changes the chart’s neutral wording and is less appropriate here than “fast food.” “Witnessed” is also repeatedly applied to figures or categories in a way that sounds awkward. The phrase “stayed stable” does not accurately describe the monthly figures, which changed from 30% to 25%. Aim for precise, neutral collocations such as “the proportion who ate at fast-food restaurants” and “the figure rose/fell.”

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 7.0

You use a mix of simple and complex sentence forms, including a clear contrast structure in “before dropping to slightly 28% in 2013” and a longer sentence comparing the monthly figures. Most sentences are understandable, and punctuation generally supports the meaning. Some grammatical errors remain, however. In “the figure for daily consumers were very low,” the singular subject requires “was”; “decline form 4%” contains a spelling error rather than a grammatical one, and the sentence would be clearer as “fell from 4% to 3%.” The construction “dropping to slightly 28%” also needs a different placement of the adverb: “dropping slightly to 28%.” Check subject–verb agreement and adverb placement, and vary sentence patterns while maintaining this generally clear control.

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