Band 6.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.5 · IELTS General Essentials · 2026-10-07

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

A family member is coming to stay with you. He/she will be arriving by train in the morning, but you won’t be home until the evening.

• explain arrangements you have made for them to have keys and get into the house

• tell your relative how to get from the train station to your house

• say when you will be home and suggest what you could do together that evening

Student answer (Band 6.5)

Dear Mom,

How are you? It's been a long since I saw you. I'm so glad that you are coming to stay with me till next month.

I read your letter and got to know that you're coming on 20 September 2026 and will arrive my city at 10 in the morning. Unfortunately, I will be at my workplace that time. However, I tried to take an off but it got rejected as we are working on our annual project. Don't worry, my friend lives next door to me so you can just ring her bell she will handover you the keys.

you told me that you're coming by train. My home is just on 8 minutes walk from the train station. Once you exit the station, you'll see a big sign " Jalalapur Apartments". you can go straight in that building and my house number is 12 on ground floor and my friend Shruti lives in 13.

I'll try to finish my part for the project and come home as soon as possible but i won't be late past 4 pm. We will go for a dinner in the night in one of my favorite indian restaurant. Moreover, in the morning we will go to my friend Shruti's cafe.

I'm so excited to see you soon.

Lots of love,

Sukh

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 7.0

You address all three parts of the task and maintain a warm, appropriate tone for a letter to your mother. The key arrangements are clear: your neighbour Shruti will provide the keys, you give directions from the station, and you say you expect to be home by 4 p.m. You also suggest dinner and a visit to Shruti’s café. These details make the letter useful and relevant. To strengthen the response further, make the access instructions more precise—for example, explain whether your mother should ring Shruti’s doorbell at number 13 before going to your home. The evening plan is clear, though adding a specific activity or more detail about dinner would develop it further.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 7.0

The letter follows a clear sequence: you begin with a personal greeting, explain the arrival and key arrangements, give directions, and finish with your expected arrival and plans. This logical progression makes the information easy to follow. Paragraphing also helps separate the main topics. You use linking expressions such as “However,” “Moreover,” and “but” to connect ideas, although some transitions feel slightly mechanical or could be more precise. For instance, the café visit is described as happening “in the morning” after the evening plan, which may briefly confuse the timeline. Keep each paragraph focused on one stage of the visit and use time markers such as “that evening” and “the following morning” to make the sequence unmistakable.

Lexical Resource: Band 6.0

Your vocabulary is adequate for this familiar situation, and phrases such as “annual project,” “train station,” and “ground floor” communicate useful details. The friendly expressions “Lots of love” and “I’m so excited to see you” suit the relationship. However, some word choices and collocations are inaccurate or less natural, including “take an off,” “hand over you the keys,” and “go for a dinner.” There are also spelling and capitalisation slips, such as “indian” and “i.” These do not prevent understanding, but they limit precision and polish. Aim to learn common combinations as complete phrases, and check spelling and capitalisation during proofreading.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 6.0

You use a mix of simple and more complex sentence forms, including “Unfortunately, I will be at my workplace that time” and the sentence explaining that your leave request was rejected because of the project. Most ideas remain understandable, but some grammatical errors occur. For example, “It’s been a long since I saw you” needs a noun after “long,” and “you’re coming … and will arrive my city” has an incorrect verb pattern. In “ring her bell she will handover you the keys,” two clauses need clearer punctuation or a linking word. Also check articles, prepositions, and capitalisation, as in “in one of my favorite Indian restaurants” and “I.” These are useful targets for editing while retaining your varied sentence structures.

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