Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Cambridge IELTS 20 · 2026-10-08

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 pictorials from Little Chalfont Library illustrates findings about loans taken according to the ages of the indivisuals and over the years.

Overall, the pie chart shows the age of library members, and the table shows the total loans taken by category in the year 2016. The bar chart shows the trend of historical data of total number of loans taken over the period from 2007 to 2016.

Adults constitues the majority of the library members by adding 51 to the total. Whereas, children, young adults, and adults over the age of 65 adds close numbers to the total. In terms of category, fictions has came out to be the favourite of both adults and childrens. All other categories share very negligible percentage to the total.

Total number of loans taken in 2007 have been the lowest across the years, which grew to approximately 19,000 in the subsequent years of 2008 and 2009. Following that, the total number of loans have been above 20,000 each year except 2013, when they were slightly lower.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0

You cover all three visuals and provide a clear overview of their subjects, identifying adults as the largest membership group and fiction as the leading loan category. The main trend is also captured: loans were lowest in 2007, rose to around 19,000 in 2008–09, and were generally above 20,000 later, with 2013 as an exception. However, some key details are underdeveloped or imprecise. The age figures are not reported accurately: children account for 22%, young adults 15%, and members aged 65+ 12%, so these groups are not all close in size. The category summary also misses that adult and children’s fiction each represent 38%, while adult non-fiction is a notable 13%, not negligible. Include selected figures and describe the later fluctuations more precisely.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.5

The response has a clear overall arrangement: an introduction, an overview, and separate discussion of membership/categories and the loan trend. This makes the information easy to follow, and phrases such as “Overall” and “Following that” help signal the stages of the report. The paragraphs also broadly group related information appropriately. To make the progression more polished, connect comparisons more explicitly—for example, contrast the two 38% fiction categories with the smaller loan shares, then move to the time series. “Whereas” begins a fragment-like transition after a full stop, and “All other categories” is a broad reference that could be made more precise. The organisation is coherent, but clearer links and references would make cohesion less abrupt.

Lexical Resource: Band 6.0

You use a reasonable range of task-related vocabulary, including “majority,” “category,” “trend,” “historical data,” and “approximately,” and the meaning is generally clear. There are also attempts at more formal reporting language. However, several choices are inaccurate or unnatural: “pictorials” is not the usual term for charts, “loans taken” is an awkward collocation, and “fictions” should be “fiction” when referring to the category. “Negligible” overstates the small categories, especially since adult non-fiction accounts for 13%. Spelling errors such as “indivisuals” also reduce accuracy. Aim for precise chart vocabulary and natural collocations, such as “the proportion of members,” “loans issued,” and “loan categories”; this will improve clarity without requiring unnecessarily complex wording.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You attempt both simple and more complex sentence forms, including the overview sentence beginning “Overall” and the time-series sentence with “except 2013.” Most of the message remains understandable, but some errors in agreement, tense, and sentence construction are noticeable. For example, “The pictorials … illustrates” has a plural subject with a singular verb, while “Adults constitues” also has an agreement and verb-form problem. In “children, young adults, and adults over the age of 65 adds,” the plural list requires “add.” The phrase “fictions has came out” combines an incorrect plural form with an incorrect verb form. Check subject–verb agreement and use simple past consistently when describing the completed 2016 data, for example, “fiction was the most popular category.”

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