Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · IELTS Predictions Nov 2026 · 2026-11-14

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

The plans below show a museum site before and after redevelopment, including changes to its buildings, entrance, parking, gardens and visitor facilities.

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

Student answer (Band 6.0)

There are two plans of a museum building, one is before development and the second is after development.

The old plan has museum building, car parking, garden and gift shop while new plan has museum, car parking, garden, cafe, gift shop, and lecture room.

Before development the entrance was from south side and museum building in the center. Car parking was left side of the museum building from the entrance and garden was right side of the museum building from entrance and the gift shop was north side of the garden.

But, after development,the entrance is changed from south side to north side. The museum building is almost on the center but it's size is increased. The garden location is totally changed and now garden is located where car parking was located and it's size somehow decreases. The car parking is now located where south entrance was first located. Gift shop location is also changed with garden and it is still on north side of the garden. Cafe and Lecture room is added in new development. Cafe is located near car parking and museum while lecture room is on the left side of north entrance and in the north of museum building.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0

You cover the main changes and make several relevant comparisons: the entrance moves from south to north, the garden shifts from east to west, and the car park moves from west to south. You also identify the new café and lecture room. However, some details are inaccurate or unclear. The gift shop moves from the north-east to the north-west, rather than simply changing location “with garden”; the garden and gift shop do not exchange positions. The claim that the museum increases in size is not supported by the plans. An overview highlighting the major relocation of facilities and the addition of visitor amenities would make the key features clearer, while more precise descriptions of the paths and positions would strengthen the report.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0

The response has a generally understandable sequence: it introduces the two plans, describes the original layout, and then explains the redevelopment. This gives the reader a basic progression through the information. However, the opening repeats the distinction between the old and new plans, and the main body is presented as two long paragraphs with several details crowded together. Connectors such as “But” and “also” help, though some relationships are not expressed precisely; for example, “changed with garden” makes the gift shop’s relocation difficult to follow. Organise the comparison into clearer groups—entrance and paths, relocated facilities, and new additions—and use more precise referencing to make the progression smoother.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use a relevant range of basic location and change vocabulary, including “center,” “left side,” “right side,” “located,” and “changed,” so the layout is generally understandable. There are also attempts at more descriptive wording, such as “totally changed” and “somehow decreases,” but these are imprecise or informal for an academic report. Repetition of “located” and “side” limits flexibility, while phrases such as “car parking” and “museum building” are less natural than standard map-description terms. Choose precise verbs and directional expressions, and avoid vague modifiers. For example, describe facilities as being relocated, added, or removed, and use “to the west/east of” rather than relying repeatedly on “left” and “right.”

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You attempt a mixture of simple and longer sentences, including comparisons between the two plans, and the main meaning is usually clear. Some grammatical errors remain, however. The opening has a comma splice in “one is before development and the second is after development,” and “The old plan has museum building” is missing an article. There are also errors in “it's size” (the possessive should be “its”) and in punctuation around “after development,the entrance.” Several sentences join multiple ideas with “and,” making their structure less controlled. Practise accurate articles, possessives, sentence boundaries, and punctuation, while varying sentence patterns so that comparisons are expressed cleanly.

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