Band 7.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 7.0 · Barron's Writing · 2026-10-17

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 7.0)

Dear Mr Patel,

I am writing to complain about a parking issue that I am facing almost every day at your apartment building parking lot.

Over the past few months, I have been dealing with the parking space problem as often I cannot find any vacant spot when I get back from my work at 5:30pm. I had asked for one permanant parking space when I signed the apartment lease with you and signed the agreement as well.

However, other residents often park their car on my designated spot throughout the day. I had tried talking to them multiple times and explain that I have got many parking tickets as I had to park my car on the street. It has become overly expensive and inconvenient for me to cope up with this situation.

I would therefore like you to speak with the other tenants and remind them of not using my parking place, especially in the evening time when I come back home after a long day at work. Moreover, I would appreciate it if you could schedule a small building meeting and discuss this problem so that they can avoid repeating similar mistakes again.

I hope you will consider my complain seriously and take an appropriate action promptly.

Yours sincerely,

Tom Harris

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 7.5

The letter clearly addresses all three requirements: you describe the recurring lack of spaces, explain the cost and inconvenience of parking on the street, and ask the landlord to intervene. The detail that you requested a permanent space when signing the lease also makes the complaint specific and gives it a clear basis. Your proposed actions—speaking with tenants and holding a building meeting—are relevant, though the meeting suggestion is less directly tied to preventing cars from occupying your assigned space. To strengthen the response further, explain how the landlord could enforce the parking arrangement, for example by marking the space or issuing a reminder that unauthorised parking is not permitted. The purpose and tone remain clear throughout.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 7.0

The letter follows a clear progression: it introduces the problem, gives background and consequences, then makes requests and closes politely. Paragraphing helps distinguish these stages, and linking expressions such as “However,” “I would therefore,” and “Moreover” guide the reader through your points. The sequence is easy to follow, although some connections feel slightly mechanical, particularly the move from asking tenants to stop using your space to proposing a general meeting. You could make that relationship clearer by explaining that the meeting would remind residents of the assigned-space rules. The reference to “my designated spot” is understandable, but a more explicit link to the permanent space agreed in the lease would make the central issue even more cohesive.

Lexical Resource: Band 6.0

You use an adequate range of vocabulary for a formal complaint, including “vacant spot,” “designated spot,” “inconvenient,” and “appropriate action.” These choices communicate the issue clearly, and the tone is generally suitable for writing to a landlord. Some word choices and collocations are less natural or precise: “cope up with this situation” is not idiomatic, “parking place” is less specific than “assigned parking space,” and “consider my complain” uses the wrong form of the word. “Permanant” is also misspelled. Greater accuracy with common formal phrases would make the letter sound more fluent and controlled; the meaning remains clear despite these slips.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 6.5

The response includes a mix of simple and more complex sentence forms, such as the sentence beginning “I would therefore like you to speak with the other tenants” and the conditional request “I would appreciate it if you could schedule…” Most sentences are understandable, and the errors do not prevent the reader from following your complaint. Some grammatical patterns need more control. In “as often I cannot find,” the clause is awkwardly formed; “because I often cannot find” would be clearer. In “I had tried talking to them multiple times and explain,” the verb forms are not parallel; use “had tried talking … and explaining” or “tried … and explained.” Review tense consistency and clause construction to make the complex sentences more accurate.

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