Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Barron's Writing · 2026-09-18

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

You have rented a house by a lake for the summer.

Write a letter to a friend. In your letter
• describe the house.
• describe how you are spending your time there.
• invite your friend to come and visit.

You do NOT need to write any addresses.

Begin your letter as follows:

Dear ____

Student answer (Band 6.0)

Hi Gurpreet,

I hope you are well. I would like to inform you that i have rented a house near Sukhna Lake in Chandigarh,India. This is two bedroom house build in 1999 and very big living area along with 2 seprate washroom one is master washroom . This is flat roof house and there is a fireplace in the living room.

Apart from that, When i wake up in the morning, I sit in the balcony and enjoy the fresh environment and beauty of the lake. there is a one gym in the basement and theater room so where i spent my free time with my children.

I am inviting you to come in this weekend with your family . we will spend quality of time with each other and click pictures for memory . we will have a dinner

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response — Band 5.0

The student covers all three bullet points required in the prompt: describing the house (location, bedrooms, flat roof, fireplace), describing how time is spent there (enjoying the lake view from the balcony, using the basement gym and theater room), and inviting the friend for the weekend. The tone is appropriate for a letter to a friend. However, the response has a length issue, containing only 140 words, which falls short of the 150-word minimum requirement. Due to this under-length penalty, the task achievement is constrained to a lower band, despite the satisfactory coverage of content points.

Coherence and Cohesion — Band 6.0

The letter exhibits a basic logical organization. It moves sequentially from greeting and describing the house, to daily activities, and finally to the invitation. Paragraphing is attempted, with the second paragraph starting with 'Apart from that,' to transition into daily routines, and the third paragraph introducing the invitation. However, cohesive devices are sometimes mechanical or poorly managed, and the paragraphing is somewhat disjointed with short, abrupt sentences. Referencing is occasionally unclear, such as 'come in this weekend'. Overall arrangement is coherent, earning a Band 6.

Lexical Resource — Band 6.0

The vocabulary used is adequate for the task, with acceptable words like 'environment', 'fireplace', and 'basement'. The student attempts some less common vocabulary, such as 'flat roof house' and 'master washroom', but there are noticeable inaccuracies in word choice, such as 'spend quality of time' instead of 'spend quality time', and spelling/capitalization errors like lowercase 'i' instead of 'I', and 'seprate' instead of 'separate'. These errors do not seriously impede communication, but they restrict the lexical score to a Band 6.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy — Band 6.0

The writer employs a mix of simple and complex sentence forms, such as 'I would like to inform you that i have rented a house...' and 'When i wake up in the morning, I sit in the balcony...'. However, there are frequent errors in punctuation and capitalization (e.g., lowercase 'i', spacing issues before commas and periods like 'lake, India.', 'environment .'), and minor grammatical slips like 'This is two bedroom house build in 1999'. While these errors rarely impede overall communication, they prevent the text from achieving a higher band.

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