Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Barron's Writing · 2026-10-14

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

You are planning a business trip to another city. You will have some free time to do some sightseeing while you are there.
 

Write a letter to a friend who lives in the city you will visit. In your letter:
• explain the purpose of the trip.
• ask about things to do and see in the city.
• invite your friend to do something with you during your visit.

You do NOT need to write any addresses.

Begin your letter as follows:

Dear ____

Student answer (Band 6.0)

Dear Mohit,

I hope you're doing well.

It's been a long time since we last spoke. You will be glad to hear that I am visitng your city on November 20. I am coming for a four days business trip arranged by my company. I figured it out that I have time to spend with you before the meeting starts on November 21st.

I would love it if you could arrange your time to visit some famous places of your city with me. Also, with our own vehicle would add more fun to our visits rather than public transportation.

Moreover, I wish to have lunch together and you know very well that I like home made snacks alot, if you can bring those while coming here, it would be grateful.

Hope to see you soon. Take care and stay in touch.

With love,

Aman

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.5

You address the three main points: you explain that the visit is a four-day business trip, ask Mohit to show you famous places, and suggest meeting for lunch. The purpose is clear, but the sightseeing request is not very specific, and the invitation is weakened by asking Mohit to bring homemade snacks rather than clearly proposing an activity together. The timing also needs clarification: you say you arrive on November 20 and have time before a meeting on November 21, but do not explain when you would like to meet. The response is six words below the required minimum, so it needs a little more development. Add a specific sightseeing or lunch plan and ask which time suits your friend.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.5

The letter follows a sensible sequence: greeting and personal update, explanation of the trip, requests, and a friendly closing. Connectors such as “Also” and “Moreover” help signal the next points, and the tone is appropriate for a friend. This gives the message a coherent overall arrangement. However, the ideas are packed into one main paragraph, so the purpose, sightseeing request, and lunch invitation do not stand out as clearly as they could. Some links are also a little abrupt, particularly the move from travelling around the city to asking for homemade snacks. Use separate paragraphs for the trip and plans, and make the relationship between each request explicit to improve progression.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use enough everyday vocabulary to communicate the main message, including “business trip,” “famous places,” “public transportation,” and “stay in touch.” The friendly expressions suit the audience, and the reader can understand what you want to arrange. However, several choices are awkward or imprecise, such as “arrange your time to visit” and “it would be grateful”; these make the requests sound less natural. There are also spelling and form issues in “visitng,” “alot,” and “home made.” Aim for more natural collocations and accurate spelling, for example, ask your friend to “show you around” and say you would “really appreciate” the snacks. This would make the vocabulary more precise and fluent.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 6.0

You use a mix of simple and more complex forms, including “You will be glad to hear that…” and the conditional “if you can bring those…”. Most of the message remains understandable, and the closing sentences are controlled. Some grammatical errors remain, however. In “I am visitng your city,” the verb form should be “I am visiting”; “a four days business trip” needs a singular compound modifier, “a four-day business trip”; and “with our own vehicle would add more fun” lacks a clear grammatical subject. The long lunch sentence also joins several ideas without clear sentence boundaries. Practise accurate verb forms, compound modifiers, and complete sentence structures, and divide longer ideas into shorter sentences.

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