Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Cambridge IELTS 20 · 2026-11-09

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

The charts below give information about a public library in a town called Little Chalfont.

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

 

Student answer (Band 6.0)

The pie chart illustrates the data on age groups using a library in Little Chalfont town and the table displays the percentages of total loans per section in 2016.

Overall, just above half of the library users are adults followed by children. The smallest percentage is occcupied by adults 65 years and over. Children's fiction books and adult fiction are loaned more and in contrast very few people are taking Children.s DVDs.

51% of adults(18-64) utilised the library in 2016, becoming the highest. On the second position was the children age group with 22%. On the third and fourth postion were the young adults(13-17) and adult at 65 and over with 15% and 12% respectively.

Chidren's fiction and adult fiction were very popular with both having 38% in total loans. The other sections were much far below with 13% loaning the adult non-fiction. Only 1% of the library users loaned the children's DVDs and this was the least category.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.5

You identify the main features of the two 2016 displays: adults aged 18–64 form the largest membership group, while adults aged 65 and over are the smallest, and fiction accounts for the largest loan shares. The figures you give for membership and the two fiction categories are accurate. However, the task includes a line graph of total loans from 2007 to 2016, and this is not reported at all, so the response covers only part of the visual information. Some category details are also imprecise: 1% refers to the share of loans for children’s DVDs, not the percentage of library users who borrowed them. Include the overall loan trend and report the remaining notable categories to make the summary more complete.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 7.0

The response is organised into a brief introduction, an overview, and separate paragraphs for membership and loan categories. This gives the reader a clear route through the information, and phrases such as “Overall” and “In contrast” help signal relationships. The progression within the two data paragraphs is also generally easy to follow. To make the organisation more effective, include the line graph in the structure rather than leaving one visual unaddressed, and use clearer links when moving between comparisons. For example, “On the second position” is understandable but awkward; a direct comparison such as “Children were the second-largest group” would make the relationship smoother and more precise.

Lexical Resource: Band 6.0

You use a suitable range of task-related vocabulary, including “percentages,” “total loans,” “fiction,” and “non-fiction,” and terms such as “highest” and “least” help describe rankings. Meaning is generally clear, but several word choices and collocations are unnatural or imprecise: “age groups using a library,” “occupied by,” “much far below,” and “loaning” do not express the data naturally. There are also spelling and punctuation slips, including “occcupied,” “Chidren’s,” and “Children.s.” Use standard chart language such as “library members,” “accounted for,” and “a much smaller share,” and check spelling and apostrophes carefully to improve accuracy and flexibility.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 6.0

You use both simple statements and more developed structures, including the overview sentence beginning “Overall” and the contrast in “Children’s fiction and adult fiction were very popular with both having 38%.” Most sentences remain understandable, and errors rarely prevent the reader from following the comparisons. Some grammatical control is still uneven. For example, “On the second position was the children age group” has an awkward inversion and a missing possessive form, while “the young adults … and adult at 65 and over” does not maintain parallel plural phrasing. The sentence about DVDs also shifts from the category’s share of loans to “people” borrowing them. Prefer straightforward comparative sentence patterns and check agreement, possessives, and consistent reference.

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