Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Cambridge IELTS 20 · 2026-10-01

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 summarize the information about the Little Chalfont Library: library members categorized according to the age, proportions of loan contributed by various types of books, and the volume of borrowings between 2007 and 2016.

Overall, the total number of loans depicted a rising trend across the given time period. Most of library members were adults, aging between 18 and 64. Still, children's fiction beside the adult fiction category had the most loans, with 38% of total loans.

51% of library member were adults, while 22% were children. Young adults and adults with the age of 65 or above were in miniority, making up to 12% and 15% of library members respectively. Similarly, children's non fiction (6%), children's DVDs (1%) along with young adults (2%) and adult audio books (2%) had the least number of loans. Adult non-fiction, on the other hand, was second category with most number of loans. The number of loans, in 2007, were around 15,000 which rose to approximately 21,000 in 2011, dipping slightly to just below 20,000 in 2013. This number grew again to almost 21,500 in 2016, reaching the highest point throught the period.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0

The response addresses all parts of the task, successfully covering the age distribution of library members, the categories of book loans, and the multi-year trend in total loans from 2007 to 2016. However, some areas are more fully developed than others. For example, while the overall rising trend and specific figures for member demographics are included, the reporting of loan categories is somewhat compressed and lists percentages sequentially without grouping key highlights effectively. To reach a higher level, the response would benefit from fully extending all comparisons, such as contrasting the dominance of fiction with non-fiction across both adults and children more thoroughly, and ensuring that key trends are synthesized rather than merely listed.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0

The text maintains a coherent overall arrangement with a clear division between an introductory overview and subsequent body details. Logical organization is present, and ideas progress reasonably well from demographics to loan categories and historical trends. However, cohesion is occasionally mechanical or repetitive in its referencing. Transitions between sentences and paragraphs, such as the shift from member statistics to loan distributions, could be smoother to avoid disjointed pacing. Paragraphing is used, but the main body content is lumped into one large block rather than being separated logically by chart type, which detracts slightly from the overall flow and clarity of presentation.

Lexical Resource: Band 6.0

The vocabulary used is adequate for the task, successfully conveying the statistical information with terms like 'proportions', 'rising trend', and 'categorized'. The writer attempts some less common vocabulary, such as 'minority' and 'proportion', but there are occasional word choice and spelling inaccuracies, such as 'miniority' instead of 'minority', 'throught' instead of 'throughout', and referring to adult non-fiction as the 'second category with most number of loans' rather than 'second highest'. These minor lexical slips do not impede communication, but they highlight the need for greater precision in word forms and spelling to achieve a higher tier of performance.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 6.0

The writer demonstrates a mix of simple and complex sentence forms, utilizing structures like relative clauses and introductory prepositional phrases effectively. There are some grammatical errors and awkward phrasing, such as 'Most of library members were adults, aging between 18 and 64' (missing article 'the' before library, and 'aged' is more appropriate than 'aging'), and 'The number of loans, in 2007, were around 15,000' (subject-verb agreement error with 'number... was'). Punctuation is generally acceptable, and while these errors persist, they rarely impede communication, allowing the reader to follow the intended meaning without confusion.

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