Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · IELTS Academic Practice Accelerator · 2026-11-11

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

The bar chart shows the typical weekday for students in three different countries.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

Student answer (Band 6.0)

The bar chart illustrates the activities of students on a specific day across three different countries (Japan, UK and Germany).Overall, studying was most popular activity among students followed closely by sleep.Relaxing seemed to be less common than studying and sleeping between students throughout the period.

Looking at details,it is clear that in Japan 13 students took part to make it highest for studies compared to Uk and germany as 8 and 9 students respectively.Additionally, In United kingdom and Germany nearly a equal number students slept on the typical day By contrast, a similar trend is evident for relaxing among students in Germany and UK as same number of students chose to relax on this day.However, in Japan only 4 students relaxed on the specific weekday making it the least activity among others.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0

You identify the main pattern that studying takes the most time in Japan and that relaxing is lowest there, and your comparisons of study and relaxation across countries are broadly relevant. However, the chart reports hours, not numbers of students: phrases such as “13 students took part” misrepresent the data. The overview also says studying is followed closely by sleep, which is not true in Japan, where study is 13 hours and sleep is 7. The UK and Germany sleep figures are similar, but you do not give their values or clearly compare the overall patterns. The response is also 18 words below the required minimum. Include an accurate overview and report the units and key figures consistently.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0

The response has a recognisable structure: an opening overview is followed by a paragraph of comparisons, and signposts such as “Overall,” “Additionally,” and “By contrast” help show relationships between points. This gives the information a generally coherent arrangement. However, the second paragraph combines several comparisons in a long sequence, so the progression is not always easy to follow; the shift from studying to sleeping and then relaxing could be organised more clearly. Some linking is also mechanical, particularly the repeated use of “Additionally” and “However.” Separate the comparisons into clearer sentences or group them by activity, and use references such as “the figures for these two countries” only when the comparison is explicit.

Lexical Resource: Band 6.0

You use an adequate range of task-related vocabulary, including “illustrates,” “popular,” “compared,” and “similar trend,” and the reader can generally understand the intended comparisons. There are also attempts at more formal phrasing, such as “Looking at details.” However, several choices are inaccurate or awkward: “students took part” suggests participation rather than time spent, while “least activity” is not a natural way to describe the lowest figure. “Specific day” is repeated and does not convey the chart’s weekday context precisely. Use vocabulary that describes duration and chart values, such as “spent,” “hours,” “accounted for,” and “the lowest amount of time.” This would make the comparisons more precise without requiring a much wider vocabulary.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You attempt both simple and more complex sentence forms, including a contrast introduced by “By contrast” and a clause beginning “making it the least activity.” The main ideas remain understandable, but some grammatical errors reduce accuracy. For example, “studying was most popular activity” needs an article, and “a similar trend is evident … as same number” has an incomplete comparison structure. In “nearly a equal number students slept,” the article and noun phrase are not correctly formed. Punctuation and spacing are also inconsistent, with missing spaces after full stops and commas. Practise accurate article use and complete comparison patterns, and proofread sentence boundaries; these changes would improve control while retaining your range of structures.

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