Band 6.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.5 · Cambridge IELTS 20 · 2026-10-14

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 6.5)

The maps show how the Beechwood farm changed from 1950 to present day.

Overall, the farm has undergone extensive developments, with the construction of solar energy farm, a parking, a camp area, a shop, relocation of the barn and converting the old barn into holiday cottages.

In 1950, the Beechwood farm had a track connecting the parts of the farm, a barn beside the track in the right middle corner of it, partitions for fruits trees, soft fruits and vegetables situated between the track and the river. A large area was spared for sheep in the top right corner between the track and the boundary.

In the present day, the track is constructed into a road. The old barn site is developed into holiday cottages and a new barn is located a the triangular junction of the road. A shop is added in the fruit tress area near the main road and a parking opposite to it on the other side of the secondary road. The sheep area now house a solar farm, a parking space and a camping field.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.5

You give a clear overview of the scale and direction of change, identifying new facilities and the conversion of the former barn site into holiday cottages. Most locations are reported accurately, including the new barn at the road junction and the shop near the main road. However, some details are unclear or imprecise: the 1950 sheep area is described as being in the “top right corner,” whereas the plan places it north of the track, and the present-day parking is not simply “opposite” the shop. The account also omits notable changes such as the farmhouse remaining in place and the fruit, soft-fruit and vegetable plots largely retaining their locations. This covers the main task, but some comparisons need fuller and more precise development.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 7.0

The response is organised effectively into an introduction, an overview and two chronological detail paragraphs. This gives the reader a clear progression from the 1950 layout to the present-day changes, and phrases such as “In 1950” and “In the present day” make the time shift easy to follow. The overview also helps establish the main transformation before the details. To make the organisation more fully controlled, group related changes more systematically—for example, describe the road and agricultural plots together, then the new visitor facilities and buildings. Some lists, particularly the overview’s sequence of new features, feel compressed, and “opposite to it” has an unclear reference. More precise linking and referencing would make the cohesion smoother.

Lexical Resource: Band 6.5

You use a suitable range of map vocabulary, including “connecting,” “situated,” “relocation,” “triangular junction” and “converted,” and the meaning is generally clear. There are also attempts at more specific terms such as “solar energy farm” and “partitions.” However, several choices are inaccurate or unnatural for this context: “partitions” does not describe the fields, “a parking” is not the natural expression, and “the sheep area now house” contains an incorrect word form. Spelling slips such as “tress” for “trees” also reduce precision. These issues do not prevent understanding, but more accurate collocations and consistent use of labels from the plan would strengthen the description.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 6.5

You use a mix of simple and more complex structures, including the overview clause “with the construction of…” and the sentence describing the barn’s conversion. Most relationships between features remain understandable. Some grammatical errors persist, however: “a the triangular junction” has an incorrect article, “the sheep area now house” has faulty subject–verb agreement, and “a parking” shows an article error. The phrase “converting the old barn into holiday cottages” is also not parallel with the preceding nouns in the overview. Review articles, agreement and parallel structure, and check sentence patterns when listing several changes. Greater accuracy in these areas, alongside your existing range, would make the report more polished.

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