Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · IELTS Academic Practice Accelerator · 2026-11-12

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 compares the typical weekday for pupils for three different countries:The UK, Japan, Germany.

Overall, Most of the students in Japan and Germany spent their time on studying and relaxing, while people in the UK mostly used their time on sleeping.

In the UK, people spent their 8.5 hours of time on sleeping, which was the highest compared to Japan and Germany whom hours were 7 and 8 respectively. In Japan, students spent almost 13 hours while studying which noted as the highest in this category while, in the UK students spend 8 hours on studying and this proprotion was stood at 9 for Germany.

By following that, scholars spend 7 hours on relaxing for both countries:the UK and Germany.This number was only 4 in Japan, which is almost 3 hours less then Germany and the UK and this figure was noted as the modest among all categories.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 7.0

You cover all three countries and all three activities, and the main comparisons are generally accurate: Japan records the most studying (13 hours), while its relaxing figure is the lowest (4 hours); the UK and Germany both show 7 hours of relaxation. Your overview also identifies studying as prominent in Japan and Germany. However, the claim that UK students “mostly used their time on sleeping” is not supported: sleeping is 8.5 hours, compared with 8 hours studying, so the difference is small. The overview would be stronger if it highlighted the clearest overall contrasts, including Japan’s unusually high study time and lower sleep and relaxation figures. The response selects relevant data, though some interpretation is over-generalised.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0

The response has a clear overall arrangement: an introduction, an overview, and paragraphs reporting the figures. This makes the information easy to follow. However, some linking is mechanical or unclear. “By following that” does not naturally introduce the relaxation comparison, and “while” in the studying sentence creates an awkward connection between the figures. Punctuation also affects flow, particularly the missing spaces after colons in “countries:The UK” and “countries:the UK,” and the full stop joined directly to “This.” Use straightforward transitions such as “Regarding relaxation” and connect comparisons with clear sentence structures. More precise referencing would also help the reader follow which country each figure belongs to.

Lexical Resource: Band 6.0

You use an adequate range of task-related vocabulary, including “compares,” “respectively,” “category,” and “proportion,” and the meaning is generally clear. There are, however, several inaccurate or unnatural choices. “People” is less precise than “students,” while “whom hours” is an incorrect expression and “this proportion was stood at 9” is not a natural way to report a figure. “Modest” is also not the best fit for the lowest value; “lowest” is clearer and more precise. Spelling errors such as “proprotion” and “then” weaken accuracy. Aim for natural chart-reporting collocations, such as “spent 8.5 hours sleeping” and “the figure stood at 9 hours.”

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You attempt both simple and more complex sentences, including a relative clause in “which was the highest” and a comparison using “while.” Meaning is usually recoverable, but some grammatical errors remain. For example, “Japan and Germany whom hours were 7 and 8” has an incorrect relative pronoun and sentence structure; write “Japan and Germany, where the figures were 7 and 8 hours.” In “students spend 8 hours,” the past-tense reporting requires “spent.” The construction “this proportion was stood at 9” also has an incorrect verb form; use “stood at 9.” Capitalisation is inconsistent in “Most,” and punctuation around colons and sentence boundaries needs attention. More accurate control of these patterns would strengthen the response.

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