Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · IELTS Academic Practice Accelerator · 2026-09-18

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 delineates how a student spents there typical weekday in three different countries; UK, Japan and Germany.

Overall, significant number of students studied during there weekend. Sleeping and relaxing was around neutral in Germany and Uk, whereas students choosing to relax or sleep was least perferred especially in Japan.

In Uk, sleeping was higly perferred, accounting at 8.5%, followed by the students in germany, by 8%. Learners in Japan had the lowest sleeping rate by 7%. Studying was dominated by the students in Japan by 13%. In Germany, it was recored at 9% and in Uk, it was recored at 8%.

Relaxing was the least perferred activity in every country. Germany and Uk's students that choose relaxing were around 7%. Whereas, Japan was accounted at 4%. The learners in Japan did not perfer relaxing during weekdays. They had the most number of students studying during the weekdays.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response — Band 6.0

The response covers the main features of the bar chart, comparing sleeping, studying, and relaxing times across the three countries. However, there are some data misinterpretations; the student writes that 'significant number of students studied during there weekend' (the chart shows weekdays, not weekends) and incorrectly refers to the units as percentages ('accounting at 8.5%', '13%'). Furthermore, the length requirement of 150 words was not met, as the text contains 149 words (being 1 word short). This minor under-length combined with the data inaccuracies and slight over-generalizations limits the band score to 6.0.

Coherence and Cohesion — Band 6.0

The response is organized into logical paragraphs, beginning with an introduction and overview, followed by body paragraphs detailing the categories. Cohesive devices such as 'Overall', 'whereas', and 'followed by' are used to connect ideas, though some referencing is slightly awkward (e.g., 'Germany and Uk's students that choose relaxing'). Paragraphing is present and mostly appropriate, providing a coherent overall arrangement even if transitions can occasionally feel a bit mechanical. This aligns well with the Band 6 descriptors.

Lexical Resource — Band 5.5

The student demonstrates an adequate range of vocabulary for the task, attempting words like 'delineates', 'dominated', and 'activity'. However, there are numerous lexical and spelling errors throughout the text, such as 'spents' instead of 'spends', 'there' instead of 'their' (used multiple times), 'higly', 'perferred' (instead of preferred), and 'recored' (instead of recorded). These errors do not completely impede communication, but they restrict the score to Band 5.5.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy — Band 5.5

The writer attempts a mix of simple and complex sentence forms, utilizing relative clauses and comparative structures (e.g., 'In Uk, sleeping was higly perferred, accounting at 8.5%, followed by the students in germany...'). However, grammatical and mechanical accuracy is weak. There are frequent errors in prepositions, verb forms, and spelling ('spents', 'there' for 'their', capitalization errors for 'Uk' and 'germany'). Because these errors are frequent and noticeable, the performance fits the Band 5.5 descriptor.

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