Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer
Overall Band Score: 6.0 · IELTS Academic Practice Accelerator · 2026-09-21
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 students in three different countries. It is cleary seen that students from Japan spent more time in studying whereas spent least time in relaxing.
On the other hand, students from Uk and Germay has comparatively balance time for all three categories.
Firstly, students from Japan spent most of their time on studies about 13 hours a day and 7 hours for sleeping while has least time for relaxation which is just 4 hours. As a result, students has less time for their hobbies and extra curriculum activities and also might create stress to the students.
On the other hand, Uk's students has quite balanced time for three different categories. Students spent 8.5 hours in sleeping which is least among three countries, 8 hours in studying and 7 hours for relaxing which is same as relaxing time for students in Germay. Additionally, Germany's student spent 8 hours on sleeping and 9 hours on studies.
AI examiner evaluation
| Criterion | Band |
|---|---|
| Task Achievement / Task Response | 6.0 |
| Coherence and Cohesion | 6.0 |
| Lexical Resource | 5.5 |
| Grammatical Range and Accuracy | 5.5 |
| Overall | 6.0 |
Task Achievement / Task Response — Band 6.0
The response covers all parts of the task well by reporting the main features and making relevant comparisons across the three countries. The student accurately notes that Japanese students spent the most time studying (13 hours) and the least time relaxing (4 hours). Comparisons are also made regarding UK and German students, who display more balanced schedules. A clear overview is provided at the beginning. However, the student includes some outside speculation not present in the chart, such as 'might create stress to the students' and 'less time for their hobbies and extra curriculum activities', which slightly detracts from purely reporting the visual data. Overall, the content addresses the prompt effectively, earning a solid band 6.5.
Coherence and Cohesion — Band 6.0
The response is arranged logically with an introduction, body paragraphs focusing on specific trends, and clear paragraphing. Cohesive devices such as 'On the other hand', 'Firstly', and 'Additionally' are used to structure the text, though some transitions feel a bit mechanical. There are minor referencing and cohesion issues, such as 'Uk's students has' rather than smooth pronominal referencing, but the overall progression of information remains clear and easy to follow. Paragraphing is used sufficiently to separate the contrasting trends between Japan and the other two countries, placing this criterion comfortably at a band 6.5.
Lexical Resource — Band 5.5
The vocabulary used is generally adequate for the task, with appropriate topic-related terms like 'students', 'weekday', 'categories', 'studying', 'sleeping', and 'relaxing'. The student attempts some less common vocabulary such as 'comparatively balanced' and 'extra curriculum' (though this contains a collocation/spelling inaccuracy). There are several lexical and spelling errors throughout the text, including 'cleary' instead of clearly, 'spent' instead of spending, and 'extra curriculum' instead of extracurricular. While these errors do not impede communication, they reflect a band 6 level of lexical resource.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy — Band 5.5
The student attempts a mix of simple and complex sentence forms, such as 'It is cleary seen that students from Japan spent more time in studying whereas spent least time in relaxing.' However, grammatical accuracy is weak, featuring multiple tense and agreement errors, such as 'students from Japan spent... whereas spent least', 'students from Uk and Germay has', and 'Germany's student spent'. The frequent presence of basic grammatical slips and awkward verb forms limits the score to a band 5.5, as these errors occasionally cause difficulty or distraction for the reader.
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