Band 7.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 7.0 · Cambridge IELTS 20 · 2026-10-10

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 7.0)

The pie chart displays the porportion of different age of members of Little Chalfont Library, which is located in a town called Little Chalfront. The table illustrates total loans by category in 2016 and the bar chart provides information about the total number of loans between 2007 and 2016.

Overall, more than half of the library members are between the ages of 18-64. The most popular category of books among the library members were clidren's fiction and adult fiction, whereas the least famous categories were children's DVD, adult audio books, and young adults. Total number of loans from the library increased by a third between 2007 and 2016.

Little Chalfont Library had 51 percentage of its member between the ages of 18 and 64, followed by children accoutning for 22%, whereas young adults from ages 13 to 17 and adults aged 65 and over accounted for 15 percent and 12 percent respectively.

Adult fiction and children's fiction both accounted for 38% each of total loans by category in 2016. By contrast, adult non-fiction percentage was 13%, while children's non-fiction was 6%. Adult audio books and yound adults proportion was equal at 2% and the lowest percentage was for children's DVDs at 1%.

At the beginning of the period, the total number of loans was little more than 15,000 in 2007. The total number of loans ranged between 18,000 and 21,000 through the remaining period and ended at approximately 22,000 in 2016.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 8.0

The response covers all three visuals and gives a clear overview of the main patterns: adults aged 18–64 form the largest membership group, fiction leads the loan categories, and loans rise overall. The reported membership and category percentages are accurate, and the comparison between the two 38% fiction categories is useful. The trend description also captures the broad increase from about 15,700 to 21,700. To make the account more fully developed, report key fluctuations in the loan chart: loans rose to around 21,000 in 2011, fell to about 19,600 in 2013, then increased again. The claim that loans increased “by a third” is a reasonable summary, but the intermediate pattern deserves more precise treatment.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 7.0

The response is organised effectively into an introduction, an overview, and separate paragraphs for membership, loan categories, and the time series. This gives the reader a clear progression through the visuals, and linking phrases such as “Overall,” “whereas,” and “By contrast” help signal comparisons. The main limitation is that the final paragraph compresses the decade’s changes into a broad range, so the sequence of rise, dip, and recovery is not clearly connected. Some repeated wording, particularly “the total number of loans,” also makes the cohesion slightly less flexible. Use concise references such as “this figure” and connect the turning points explicitly to strengthen the progression.

Lexical Resource: Band 6.0

Vocabulary is adequate for describing charts, with useful terms such as “accounted for,” “followed by,” “proportion,” and “ranged between.” The response also uses comparison language appropriately. However, some choices are imprecise or unnatural: “most popular category of books” is not ideal for loan data, and “least famous categories” does not accurately describe the smallest shares. There are also spelling errors, including “porportion,” “clidren’s,” “accoutning,” and “yound.” Prefer precise chart language such as “largest share,” “smallest proportion,” and “loan category.” Proofreading spelling and choosing more natural collocations would make the vocabulary more controlled and precise.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 6.5

The response uses a mix of simple and more complex structures, including the overview contrast with “whereas” and the comparison beginning “By contrast.” Most sentences communicate the intended information clearly. Some grammatical errors remain, however. In “51 percentage of its member,” the percentage expression and singular noun form are incorrect; write “51% of its members.” The sentence “The most popular category … were” has a subject–verb agreement problem, and “the lowest percentage was for” is an awkward construction that could be recast as “children’s DVDs had the lowest share.” There is also inconsistent use of articles and number forms. Greater accuracy in agreement and noun phrases, alongside the existing sentence variety, would improve control.

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