Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Cambridge IELTS 19 · 2026-10-30

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

The plans below show a harbour in 2000 and how it looks today.

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

 

 

Student answer (Band 6.0)

The maps illustrates a plan of porth harbour how looked in 2000 and second map shows the locations of present day.

In 2000, showers and toilets, car park and marina private yachts located in north-western cornor, while car park linked with road and fishing boat connected with water at west-southern cornor. The public beach, dock and Passenger ferries can find north side. Moreover, there were one more public beach, life boat and castle that not in used all locations seem on south side in 2000.

By present day, castle is changed with hotel. North side remained unchanged. However, fishing boats and marina(private yachts) switched the location that held in 2000. There are cafes and shops are constructed between marina(private yachts) and life boat and one more showers and toillets added in near west-southern car park.

Overall, many changes happend throughout the period. First of all, one more showers and toilets added and switched the location of marina(private yachts) and fishing boats and cafes and shops constructed. Although, many places remained unchanged such as a main road, dock, north sided public beach and public ferries

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0

You identify several important changes, including the relocation of the marina and fishing boats, the addition of cafés and shops, and the replacement of the castle with a hotel. You also note that some features remain unchanged. However, the overview is not fully clear: “many places remained unchanged” is too broad, and the claim that the north side “remained unchanged” overlooks the switch between the marina and fishing boats and the altered dock. Some locations are also misreported or vague, such as placing the 2000 car park and fishing boats in the “west-southern corner.” To strengthen the response, distinguish the main transformations from the features that genuinely stayed the same, and describe their positions more precisely.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.5

The response has a recognisable structure, moving from the 2000 layout to the present and then offering an overall summary. This gives the reader a basic progression, and linking expressions such as “However” and “Overall” help signal contrasts and summary. The organisation is not fully controlled, though: the final overview repeats changes already listed, while “North side remained unchanged” conflicts with the earlier account of relocated facilities. Some sentences also group several features together without clear relationships, making the map description harder to follow. Use a concise overview before the detailed comparisons, and organise the body by area or by changed versus unchanged features. Clearer referencing would also help readers track which locations you mean.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use relevant map vocabulary, including “located,” “switched the location,” “constructed,” and “remained unchanged,” so the main changes are generally understandable. However, the range is limited and several word choices or collocations are inaccurate, which sometimes makes descriptions unclear. For example, “car park linked with road” and “fishing boat connected with water” do not express the spatial relationships naturally; “the marina and fishing boats switched places” would be clearer. There are also spelling errors in “cornor,” “toillets,” and “happend,” and inconsistent forms such as “life boat.” Aim for precise location language—“to the north of,” “adjacent to,” or “on the southern side”—and check spelling and standard compound forms.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempt both simple and more complex sentences, including contrasts introduced by “while,” “However,” and “Although.” Some sentence patterns communicate the main ideas, but errors in verb forms, articles, agreement, and sentence construction are frequent enough to make parts difficult to read. For example, “The maps illustrates” has subject–verb disagreement, and “how looked in 2000” is missing the subject and auxiliary needed for a complete clause. “There are cafes and shops are constructed” combines incompatible structures, while “Although, many places remained unchanged” is not a complete concessive sentence. Practise accurate past and present forms for map comparisons, and build each sentence around one clear main clause before adding subordinate information.

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