Band 6.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.5 · Cambridge IELTS 20 · 2026-11-13

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 6.5)

The pie chart compares the age of library members, while table and bar chart provide information about total loans in a Little Chalfont town between 2007 and 2016.

Overall, majority of the library members were in 18 to 64 age group and children's fiction and adult fiction category recorded the highest loan, whereas children's DVDs accounted for the lowest.

Looking first at the library members, more than half at around 51% people are in 18 to 64 age. Followed by children at approximately 22%. Nearly 15% of members were young adults (13-17). Members who are 65 and over recorded only 12%. In contrast, total loans of adult and children's fiction were 38%, which is the highest proportion. Children's and adult non-fiction accounted for 6% and 13% of loans respectively. 2% of loans reported by young adults and adult audio books. Children's DVDs category recorded only 1% of loans.

Regarding total number of loans, started at over 15,000 in 2007 and increased to nearly 18,000 by 2008 and remained the same in 2009. Then experienced a gradual rise to more than 20,000 in 2016 with a little dip in 2013 at approximately 19,000.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 7.0

You cover all three visuals and give a clear overview: adults aged 18–64 form the largest membership group, fiction categories lead loans, and children’s DVDs are least popular. Most figures are accurately reported, including the membership shares and category percentages. The loan trend is also described in the right broad direction, but some details are inaccurate: loans rose to about 19,000 in 2008, not nearly 18,000, and the final figure was approximately 21,700, rather than merely “more than 20,000.” The overview could also capture the overall pattern more precisely: loans rose overall, with fluctuations after 2011, rather than showing a consistently gradual rise. More exact comparisons would make the report better supported.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 7.0

The response is organised into a clear introduction, overview and two detail sections, and the sequence from membership to loan categories and then the time series is easy to follow. Linking phrases such as “Looking first” and “Regarding total number of loans” help signal the shifts between visuals. The contrast marker “In contrast,” however, does not express a clear contrast between the membership figures and loan categories, so a more neutral transition would be more logical. The final paragraph also compresses several years into one sentence, making the trend less precise. Separate the initial rise, the fluctuations from 2010 onward, and the final peak into clearer stages, while retaining the effective overall paragraph structure.

Lexical Resource: Band 6.5

You use a suitable range of chart-reporting vocabulary, including “accounted for,” “proportion,” “recorded,” “gradual rise” and “dip.” These choices generally communicate the data clearly, and terms such as “fiction” and “non-fiction” are appropriately specific. Some phrasing is imprecise or awkward, however: “the age of library members” would be more naturally expressed as “the age profile of library members,” and “total loans of adult and children’s fiction” is less clear than “loans of adult and children’s fiction.” “Recorded only 12%” is also less natural for describing a group’s share than “accounted for 12%.” At this level, the range is adequate and includes some useful task-specific language, but more consistent collocation and precision would strengthen it.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 6.0

You attempt both simple and more complex sentence forms, and the response remains understandable throughout. Some grammatical errors are evident, particularly in articles, sentence completeness and agreement. For example, “while table and bar chart provide” needs articles (“the table and bar chart”), and “Overall, majority” needs “the majority.” The phrase “Looking first at the library members, more than half at around 51% people are…” is awkwardly constructed; a clearer version is “Looking first at membership, adults aged 18–64 made up 51%.” The sentence beginning “Regarding total number of loans, started at…” lacks a clear subject and finite verb. Check that each sentence has an explicit subject and verb, and use past tense consistently when reporting the 2016 data.

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