Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Recent IELTS Exams (Canada & India) · 2026-10-13

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

The pie charts below show how working adults in a particular country spent their time in 1958 and 2008.

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

* Note: these aren’t the original diagrams given in the test, they were recreated for the purpose of demonstration.

Student answer (Band 6.0)

The pie charts illustrate the proportions of adults working in a particular country who spent their time in 1958 and 2008.

1958 pie chart showed that adults spent 2% of their time traveling to work, 33% working, and 8% relaxing at home. Adults spending time with going out with friends/ family was 19%, and 32% of their time was spent sleeping. Time for playing sport was 7%.

In 2008, 42% of adults' time was spent working, which rose from the previous year, with 25% sleeping and 13% relaxing at home. 7% was devoted to traveling to work and playing sports, and 6% to going out with friends.

In both years, the highest percentage of time adults devoted was to the work sector. While sleeping and family time showed a decrease, however,a rise was observed in adults spending time resting at home and travelling to work in the recent year. Time passed while playing sports remained the same throughout the period.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0

You report most of the chart figures accurately and identify important changes: working rises from 33% to 42%, sleeping falls from 32% to 25%, and travel increases from 2% to 7%. Your overview also notes that work is the largest category in both years. However, the account is not fully precise: “family time” is not a chart category, and the 19% and 6% figures refer specifically to going out with friends/family. You also say sports remained unchanged, although it appears only in 2008, at 7%; the 1958 figures already total 100% without it. The overview would be stronger if it highlighted the sharp fall in social outings and clarified that sports is shown only in the later chart.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0

The response follows a generally clear sequence: it introduces the charts, describes 1958, moves to 2008, and ends with a comparison. This makes the information easy to follow overall. The final paragraph attempts to synthesise the main trends, which is appropriate, but its comparisons are not always clearly expressed: “While sleeping and family time showed a decrease, however” combines two contrasting linkers, and “family time” makes the reference to the chart category unclear. The sentence about sports also gives a misleading sense of continuity across both years. Use one contrast marker at a time and make each comparison explicit—for example, state that social outings declined while working and commuting increased.

Lexical Resource: Band 6.0

You use an adequate range of task-related vocabulary, including “proportions,” “devoted,” “decrease,” and “rise,” and the meaning is generally clear. There are some imprecise or unnatural choices that limit precision. “Work sector” does not describe a share of the day as naturally as “working,” while “family time” changes the chart’s category of going out with friends/family. “Time passed while playing sports” is also an awkward way to describe a percentage, and “traveling” uses a different spelling convention from the British English typically used in IELTS materials, though it remains understandable. Aim for consistent, accurate category labels and use standard chart language such as “accounted for” or “was spent on.”

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You use a mix of simple statements and more complex comparisons, including “which rose from the previous year” and the contrast beginning “While sleeping…”. Most sentences remain understandable, but some grammatical and punctuation errors are present. “1958 pie chart showed” needs an article (“The 1958 pie chart showed”), and “Adults spending time with going out…” has an awkward, incomplete construction; a clearer form is “Going out with friends and family accounted for 19%.” In the final sentence, “While …, however” uses two contrast markers, and there is no space after the comma in “however,a”. The phrase “which rose from the previous year” also has an unclear reference. More controlled sentence construction and punctuation would improve accuracy.

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