Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer
Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Cambridge IELTS 20 · 2026-09-28
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 charts illustrate the information about public library in a town called little Chalfont. Units are measured in percentage and number.
Overall, it is clear that adults accounted for the largest proportion, whereas elder people represented the smallest share. Adult and children's fiction had the highest figure, while children's DVDs had that lowest. The total number of loans was most in the final year as compared to initial year.
Looking first at adults between 18-64, it accounted for 51% of the total, while children represented 22%. Turning to the remaining categories, young adults between 13 to 17 made up 15 percent. Followed by adults between 65 and over at 12%. Both children's and adult fiction shared the same proportion with the percent of 38. Children's DVDs, adult audio books, and young adults categories recorded the lowest proportion ( 1%, 2%, 2%). Meanwhile, adult non-fiction was 13% making it lower than children's fiction.
Looking first at the initial years, the ratio of loan was very low from 2007 to 2010 with the number around slightly above 20,000. After that in 2011, it increased marginally to 22,000. By the end of the period, the figure peaked around 23,000.
AI examiner evaluation
| Criterion | Band |
|---|---|
| Task Achievement / Task Response | 6.0 |
| Coherence and Cohesion | 6.0 |
| Lexical Resource | 6.0 |
| Grammatical Range and Accuracy | 5.5 |
| Overall | 6.0 |
Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0
The student addresses all parts of the prompt by summarizing the main features from the charts, such as membership demographics, loan categories, and the trend in total loans from 2007 to 2016. An overview is successfully provided in the second paragraph, highlighting key extremes. However, there are some minor inaccuracies in reading the data; for instance, the student states that the number of loans from 2007 to 2010 was around 'slightly above 20,000' and reached 'around 23,000' at the end, whereas the chart shows 15,700 in 2007 and 21,700 in 2016. Despite these minor misreadings, the overall response covers all three visual components adequately.
Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0
The response is organized into logical paragraphs, starting with an introduction and overview, followed by specific body paragraphs for the demographic and loan data. Cohesive devices such as 'Overall', 'Looking first at', 'Turning to the remaining categories', and 'Meanwhile' are used to guide the reader, although some transitions feel slightly mechanical or repetitive ('Looking first at'). Paragraphing is used appropriately to separate different chart features, ensuring a coherent overall arrangement even if the referencing is occasionally basic.
Lexical Resource: Band 6.0
The student demonstrates an adequate range of vocabulary for the task, successfully incorporating terms such as 'proportion', 'share', 'categories', and 'marginally'. However, there are noticeable word choice and collocation errors, such as 'elder people' instead of 'elderly people' or 'older adults', 'the percent of 38' instead of 'at 38%', and 'the ratio of loan' instead of 'the number of loans'. Despite these errors, communication is not impeded, and the vocabulary used is sufficient to fulfill the basic requirements of an academic task.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5
The writer attempts a mix of simple and complex sentence structures, using relative clauses and introductory prepositional phrases. There are, however, several grammatical errors throughout the text. For example, subject-verb agreement issues appear in 'adults between 18-64, it accounted' (plural subject with singular pronoun), and punctuation or phrasing errors occur in 'made up 15 percent. Followed by adults...' (fragment sentence). While these errors are noticeable and detract from precision, they do not severely impede communication.
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