Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Barron's Writing · 2026-11-14

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

You live in a small apartment building with a parking lot in back, and you often cannot find an empty parking space when you get home from work.

Write a letter to your landlord. In your letter
• describe the situation.
• explain why it bothers you.
• suggest something the landlord could do to solve the problem.

You do NOT need to write any addresses.

Begin your letter as follows:

Dear ____

Student answer (Band 6.0)

Dear mr david,

hope you are doing well. i am writing this letter to let you know about the current situation that's bothering me lately. When I come home in the evening from my work i often find the parking lot filled with cars and there is no space for me to park my car.

As you know, after working 8 hours straight from work coming and not having any parking space is pretty exhausting for me and it's bothering me for a while since last week.

I have come up with a solution which i wanted to share with you if you can put naming board sign infront of every car park so that other people do not park their cars in someone's place, this method is useful and i think it would work well.

thanks in advance

Regards

Miss Mehr

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0

You address all three points: you describe finding the lot full after work, explain that this is exhausting, and suggest marking spaces so residents know where to park. The purpose is clear and the tone is generally suitable for writing to a landlord. However, the explanation of the problem is brief, and the proposed signs are not fully explained—for example, you could clarify whether each space would be assigned to a particular resident and how this would prevent other cars from using it. The response is also 8 words below the required minimum of 150, so it needs a little more relevant detail. Develop the impact on your routine and make the requested action more specific.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0

The letter follows a sensible overall order: it introduces the concern, describes its effect, and then offers a solution. Paragraph breaks help distinguish these stages, and the reader can follow your main message. Some connections are less smooth, however. The opening moves quickly from the greeting to the complaint, while “As you know” does not clearly connect the next sentence to information the landlord is likely to know. The final suggestion is packed into one long sentence, making the relationship between the sign and the intended result harder to follow. Use clearer paragraphing and linking, and separate the suggestion from its explanation. A conventional closing would also make the letter feel more complete.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

Your vocabulary is adequate for communicating the parking problem, with useful phrases such as “parking lot filled with cars” and “no space for me to park.” You also attempt more specific language in “naming board sign,” although this expression is not natural in this context. Some wording is repetitive or imprecise: “bothering me” appears in both the opening and the explanation, and “this method is useful” makes a general claim without specifying why. Spelling and capitalization also need attention, including “mr,” “i,” and “infront.” Choose more natural collocations and precise terms, such as “reserved parking signs” or “designated spaces,” and vary how you describe the inconvenience.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You use a mix of simple and more extended sentence forms, and the main meaning remains understandable. Some grammatical errors occur, particularly in sentence construction and punctuation. For example, “after working 8 hours straight from work coming and not having any parking space” is an awkward, incomplete structure; a clearer version would be “After working an eight-hour shift, I find it exhausting to come home and have nowhere to park.” In “if you can put naming board sign,” the conditional clause is not integrated correctly into the request. Capitalization at sentence beginnings and the pronoun “I” is also inconsistent. Practise forming complete sentences and making requests with structures such as “Could you install…?”

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