Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Cambridge IELTS 20 · 2026-11-08

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

The plans below show the site of a farm in 1950 and the same site today.

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



 

Student answer (Band 6.0)

In the imaging provided for the same farm, the size remained the same but the functioning and the use of the farm changed.

In the first picture we see that a great deal of the plot was used for sheep, and farming was divided between fruit tres, soft fruits, and vegetables. The rest was a barn, a farm house, chickens and a track.

For the second picture, the farming side remained the same while adding a farm shop in the fruit trees section. In the side where there used to be sheep, they turned it into parking lots, camping field, and a space for solar panels. They turned the track into a road, and changed the barn place and size they added holiday cottages. They clearly replaced the sheep with a space for camping and used it also for solar panels which is is great for the environment and for saving the planet.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0

You identify the main change from a sheep-farming area to a site with new visitor facilities and renewable energy, and you note that the fruit and vegetable areas largely remain. These are relevant comparisons. However, some details are inaccurate or unclear: the farm shop is between the fruit trees and the internal road, rather than within the fruit-tree section, and the barn is still shown, not replaced by the holiday cottages. The response also says the farming side “remained the same” without explaining that the fruit, soft-fruit and vegetable plots retain their locations while the sheep area becomes a camping field and solar-panel area. A more complete overview and more precise descriptions of the buildings and road changes would make the key features clearer and better developed.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0

The response has a clear overall sequence: it describes the 1950 plan first and then compares it with the present-day layout. Paragraphing supports this basic organisation, and phrases such as “In the first picture” and “For the second picture” help signal the shift. However, the first paragraph is mainly a list, while the second combines several changes without a clear order or precise links between them. The repeated reference to replacing sheep with camping and solar panels also makes the ending feel repetitive. Organise the comparison by areas—for example, retained agricultural land, the former sheep field, and the buildings and access—and use clearer references to show which features have changed or remained.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use relevant task vocabulary, including “sheep,” “soft fruits,” “vegetables,” “parking lots,” and “holiday cottages,” so the main changes can generally be understood. There is some useful variety in phrases such as “remained the same” and “turned it into.” However, several choices are imprecise or informal for a map description: “functioning” and “side” are vague, and “great for the environment and for saving the planet” is an unsupported evaluative comment rather than precise reporting. There are also spelling and word-form slips, notably “tres” for “trees” and “farm house” instead of the usual compound “farmhouse.” Prefer specific location and change vocabulary, such as “located,” “converted,” and “introduced.”

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You use a mixture of simple statements and longer sentences, including the contrast in “the farming side remained the same while adding a farm shop.” Most of the meaning is recoverable, but some sentence structures are awkward or incomplete. In that example, the subject of “adding” is unclear; a clearer form would be “the agricultural plots remained, while a farm shop was added.” The sentence beginning “They turned the track into a road, and changed the barn place and size they added holiday cottages” joins several changes without a clear grammatical relationship. There is also an accidental repetition in “which is is great.” Use controlled passive forms for map changes and divide complex comparisons into complete, clearly punctuated sentences.

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