Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · IELTS General Essentials · 2026-10-17

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

New neighbours have recently moved into the house/flat next door to where you live. You have examinations soon, but your neighbours play music late at night which is affecting your studies and sleep.

• explain what the problem is
• why it is causing you difficulties
• what action you would like them to take

Student answer (Band 6.0)

Dear Sir,

I am writing this letter regarding the distress that I am facing due to emerging late night loud music noise from your apartment. It has been not more than a week that you shifted next door and I do not want to bother you but current situation is impacting my college studies.

I am preparing for my university exams that will start next week and continous music voice hampering my concentration in studies along with that making situation more stressful. Furthermore, I work part time in the morning so hardly gets enough time to study and that too gets lost from disturbance from your house.

I would really appreciate, if you not listen songs late night for few days otherwise lower the volume of music speaker and closed your doors so that It should not reach to my room.

Hope you understand my situation and take appropriate action before playing the songs.

Yours sincerely,

Rahul Kumar

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.5

You address all three points: the late-night music is identified, you explain its effect on exam preparation and sleep-related routine, and you request that the neighbours stop or reduce it. The details about exams starting next week and your morning part-time work make the difficulty personal and relevant. The request is understandable, but the letter focuses more on studying than on the effect on sleep, and the proposed actions could be expressed more clearly and tactfully. For example, specify a reasonable quiet time and ask them to keep the volume low after that. This would develop the request more fully and make the purpose of the letter consistently clear.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.5

The letter follows a sensible overall order: you introduce the disturbance, explain its consequences, and then ask for a change. Paragraphing supports this progression, and linking expressions such as “Furthermore” and “Hope you understand” help connect the points. Some connections are less smooth, however. “Along with that” and “and that too” make the second paragraph feel repetitive, while the final request combines several actions in one sentence, making the sequence harder to follow. Use clearer transitions and separate the request into a direct sentence—for instance, first ask for lower volume at night, then mention keeping doors closed. This would make the organisation more fluent and the relationships between ideas clearer.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use relevant vocabulary for the situation, including “distress,” “concentration,” “disturbance,” and “appropriate action,” and the reader can understand the main problem. However, several word choices and collocations are noticeably unnatural or imprecise, such as “emerging late night loud music noise,” “music voice,” and “listen songs.” “Continous” is also misspelled, and “closed your doors” does not use the appropriate form for the request. These choices sometimes make the reader pause, even though the intended meaning is generally recoverable. Aim for natural combinations such as “loud music late at night,” “the sound of the music,” and “turn the volume down.”

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You attempt both simple and more complex sentences, including a reason-and-result structure in “I am preparing for my university exams … and … making situation more stressful.” The overall message remains understandable, but errors in verb forms, agreement, articles, and sentence construction are evident. For example, “It has been not more than a week that you shifted” has an awkward tense structure, and “I work part time in the morning so hardly gets enough time” lacks a clear subject for “gets.” The request “if you not listen songs … and closed your doors” also needs correctly formed verbs. Practise building accurate request forms and checking that each clause has a subject and a correctly conjugated verb.

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