Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Cambridge IELTS 16 · 2026-10-13

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

The plans below show the site of an airport now and how it will look after redevelopment next year.

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

SOUTHWEST AIRPORT

Student answer (Band 6.0)

The plans elobrate how the Southwest airport will look after redevelopment in the following year and the present site.

Overall, there will be an addition of significant numbers of gates and some liesure facilities in order to improve the airport for travellers.

Looking at the present plan, there is only one entrance and exit available for departures and arrivals respectively. Moving upward, there is a cafe on the right and checkin counter on the left of departure, before completing the security check and the passport control. After that, there is walkways for passangers to reach at their perspective gate number, while there are total eight of them.

After development, there will be an addition of one more entrance and exit to both of the side, making it efficient for large numbers of peolple sometimes. There will be few rearrangements at departure space, like checkin counter will replace cafe and the original place of counter will have the bag drop facility, while the cafe will reopen at bottom left corner. Moreover, the arrivals space will be providing some amenities next year such as cafe, atm and a small place to hire taxis. Moving forward, the customs, passport and security check will remained but the number of gates will almost get doubled, along with the replacement of walkway with sky train.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 7.0

The response gives a clear overview of the main changes: the increase from eight to eighteen gates, the addition of passenger facilities, and the replacement of the walkway by a sky train. It also reports several relevant layout changes, including the relocated check-in counter and new café, ATM and car-hire area. These details address the task and are generally grounded in the plans. However, some descriptions are inaccurate or over-generalised: the plans do not show extra entrance and exit points, and the original café is not replaced by check-in; check-in moves to the inner wall while the café moves to the bottom-left corner. Security and passport-control arrangements are also not described precisely. More exact spatial comparisons would make the account more fully supported.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.5

The response is organised into an introduction, a concise overview, and separate paragraphs for the current and future layouts. This gives the reader a clear overall progression, and phrases such as “Looking at the present plan” and “After development” help signal the shift between stages. Within the final paragraph, however, several changes are packed into one long sequence, so the relationship between the departure-area changes and the arrivals additions is not always easy to follow. Some linking is also mechanical, particularly the repeated use of “Moreover” and “Moving forward.” Grouping details by area and using clearer references to the two plans would make cohesion more flexible and precise.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

The response uses relevant vocabulary for describing airport layouts, including “redevelopment,” “amenities,” “counter,” “facility,” and “gates.” This provides enough range to communicate the main changes, but several spelling and word-choice errors are noticeable and sometimes make the description less precise. Examples include “elobrate,” “liesure,” “passangers,” and “peolple”; “perspective gate number” is also an unsuitable phrase for the gates passengers use. “Hire taxis” does not accurately describe the labelled car-hire facility. Aim for accurate spelling and standard collocations, and use more precise location language such as “along the west wall” or “adjacent to Arrivals” rather than broad or unclear expressions.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

The response attempts a mix of simple and more complex sentences, including clauses introduced by “while,” “before,” and “in order to.” Meaning is usually recoverable, but errors recur in agreement, articles, verb forms, and sentence construction. For example, “there is walkways” should be “there are walkways,” and “the customs, passport and security check will remained” needs a corrected verb form and clearer subject agreement. The sentence beginning “After that” also has an unclear construction, while “one more entrance and exit to both of the side” contains faulty number and article patterns. Practise checking each sentence’s subject and verb, and keep longer sentences controlled with clear clause boundaries.

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