Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Cambridge IELTS 12 · 2026-10-24

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 graph illustrtes the fast food eating habits of people at the dinning rooms from 2003 and 2013. Overall, eating at the resturants are very common once a week and one or two times a month in the interim, while its very least commmon to visit eating points everyday and never.

However, approximately 31% of people use to visit resturant once a week in 2003 followed by 33% in 2006 and 27% in 2013 respectively. Similarly, 30% of individuals visit fast food resturant in 2003 this number dropped by 5% in 2006 before its gradual increase to 33% in 2013.

Conversly, in case of sevral times a week this trend started with 17% in 2003 and went to 20% in 2006 before a slight decline to 16% in 2013. Likewise a few times a year 13% visitors in 2003 and 15% in 2006 and 2013 both years faced same percentage of visitors. Although, every day and people who never visited were sharing almost the same perccentage everyday eater are high in 2003 which was 3% and it dropped 1% to 2006 and 2013 but people who never visited the resturant were 5% in 2003 and almost 2% in 2006 and 2013.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.5

You identify the main pattern: weekly and monthly visits account for the largest shares, while daily visits and never eating at these restaurants are least common. You also compare all six categories across the three years, which gives the report relevant coverage. Several figures and descriptions, however, are inaccurate: weekly visits in 2013 were about 28%, not 27%; monthly visits rose to 33% in 2013, but this is described as a gradual increase after 2006; and the daily figures are 4%, 3%, and 3%, rather than 3% followed by a one-point drop. The overview also says the pattern held “in the interim,” which is unclear. The main features are present, but more precise reporting and a clearer overview would strengthen the response further.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0

The response has a recognisable structure: an introduction and overview are followed by comparisons of the categories, and the information generally moves from the more common frequencies to the less common ones. Linking expressions such as “Similarly,” “Conversely,” and “Likewise” help signal relationships. However, some links are mechanical or do not accurately express the relationship between the data. For example, “Similarly” introduces a change from 30% to 25%, while “Although” begins a sentence that does not complete a clear contrast. The final sentence combines daily and never-visit figures in a confusing way. Use shorter, clearly focused comparisons and ensure each connector matches the relationship being described.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

You use relevant vocabulary for describing a chart, including “dropped,” “decline,” “increase,” and “percentage,” and the reader can generally identify the categories being discussed. However, the range and precision are limited by repeated use of “visit” and “people,” as well as awkward or inaccurate expressions such as “dinning rooms,” “eating points,” and “everyday eater.” Several spelling errors—“illustrtes,” “resturants,” “commmon,” and “sevral”—also make the writing less polished. Choose standard chart language and use the category labels consistently, for example, “ate at fast-food restaurants once a week” or “the proportion who never visited.” More accurate collocations and spelling would make the comparisons clearer.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You attempt a mixture of simple and more complex sentences, including clauses with “while,” “before,” and “although.” The overall meaning is usually recoverable, but some grammatical errors affect clarity. For example, “eating at the resturants are very common” has subject–verb disagreement, and “people use to visit” uses an incorrect verb form for describing past data. In “this number dropped by 5% in 2006 before its gradual increase,” the sentence structure makes the sequence difficult to follow. The final sentence also contains several clauses joined without clear punctuation. Practise accurate past-tense reporting, agreement, and sentence boundaries; separating the final comparison into two sentences would help. These changes would improve control while retaining your attempts at complex structures.

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