Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Cambridge IELTS 20 · 2026-11-13

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)

The maps demonstrates the location of a farm in 1950 and how it looks in present time.

Overall, many changes have been observed from the past. There is an addition of solar panels and the camping field. Parking is a new addition beside the camping field. Holiday cottages are now seen instead of barn. Tracks have been replaced with roads.

To commence with, in 1950 there was very scarce shops of fruit trees, soft fruits, and the vegetables on the left side of the track and sheep was on the right side of the track. Below the track there was a barn, a farmhouse, and chickens area. River was flowing besdise them.

On the other hand, today the track has been replaced with the road. Addition of parking near the solar panels and farm shop is now seen. Camping field is now seen beside the road. There is an addition of holiday cottages near farmhouse and chickens area. Fruit trees, soft fruits and vegetables are at the same place.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0

You identify the main transformation from a working farm to a site with new visitor facilities, including the camping field, solar panels, parking and holiday cottages. You also note that the fruit, soft-fruit and vegetable areas remain, which is an important comparison. However, some details are inaccurate or unclear: the 1950 description places sheep on the right of the track, whereas the plan shows it north of the track, and the present-day parking is not described as being near the solar panels and farm shop. The overview also says cottages replaced the barn, although the barn remains, and the farm shop is omitted from the main comparison. Report the retained barn and distinguish the two parking areas to make the key changes more precise and complete.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.5

The response has a clear overall structure: an introduction, an overview, and separate descriptions of the earlier and current layouts. The contrastive phrase “On the other hand” helps signal the move to today, and the reader can generally follow the comparison. This meets the lower-band expectation of coherent overall arrangement and shows some progression. However, the overview groups several changes together without clearly distinguishing additions from replacements, and the final paragraph repeats the same features rather than developing a precise spatial comparison. Some references, such as “them” in “River was flowing beside them,” are not fully clear. Organise the details by location or by what changed versus what remained, and use clearer references to improve the flow.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use relevant vocabulary for describing maps, including “addition,” “replaced,” “beside,” and “at the same place,” so the main ideas are usually understandable. There is some attempt to use less common wording, but several choices are inaccurate or unnatural for this task: “very scarce shops of fruit trees” does not describe the three agricultural plots, and “in present time” is an awkward way to refer to today. “Parking is a new addition beside the camping field” is also imprecise because the plan shows two parking areas in different locations. Spelling errors such as “besdise” further reduce accuracy. Build a more precise set of map terms, such as “plot,” “located,” “retained,” and “converted,” and check spelling and collocations.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You use a mix of simple statements and some more developed structures, including “Holiday cottages are now seen instead of barn” and “Fruit trees, soft fruits and vegetables are at the same place.” The meaning is generally recoverable, but some grammatical errors remain. The opening should use plural agreement (“The maps demonstrate”), while “there was very scarce shops” has problems with both the verb and the noun phrase. Articles are also missing in “instead of barn” and “near farmhouse,” and the past description shifts awkwardly between forms such as “was flowing” and “there was.” Use consistent past tense for 1950 and present tense for today, and check subject–verb agreement and articles. More accurate complex sentences would help you express location and change without relying mainly on short statements.

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