Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · IELTS Academic Practice Accelerator · 2026-10-05

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 hours of a normal weekday activities between sleeping, studying and relaxing for students in UK, Japan and Germany.

Overall, the number of students with the most hours spent studying are Japnese students, while the number decreases for Japanese students when it comes to sleeping and relaxing as opposed to students from UK and Germany.

To begin with, students from Japan spend around 13 hours studying in a typical weekday, the figure then falls with 9 hours spent by students from Germany and slightly drops to 8 hours by students from UK. When it comes to sleeping, students from UK spend the most hours of sleep during a weekday with 8.5 hours in contrast to German students with 8 hours, the number falls with Japanese students with only 7 hours of sleep.

However, when it comes to relaxing, students from UK and Germany get an equal number of hours by 7 hours each, then the number declines to its lowest with only 4 hours by students from Japan.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 7.0

The response addresses all parts of the task by reporting the main features of the chart and making relevant comparisons between the three countries. You successfully identify the key data points, such as Japanese students spending the most hours studying (13 hours) and the UK and Germany spending equal time relaxing (7 hours). Your overview captures the main trends effectively, noting that Japanese students study the most while spending fewer hours on sleeping and relaxing compared to the other two nations. However, the response tends to over-generalise slightly in the overview when discussing the number of students rather than the number of hours, which prevents a higher score. Ideas are extended and supported with accurate figures from the visual data, fulfilling the requirements for this level well.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0

The text presents a coherent overall arrangement with a clear logical organization from the introduction to the body paragraphs and the final comparison. Paragraphing is used appropriately to separate different categories of activities. However, cohesion can sometimes feel mechanical or repetitive, particularly in the way you introduce your points using phrases like "To begin with," and "However, when it comes to relaxing,". Referencing is generally clear, but the progression between sentences occasionally feels slightly disjointed due to run-on structures, such as "students from Japan spend around 13 hours studying in a typical weekday, the figure then falls...", where a semi-colon or full stop would improve the logical flow and cohesive structure.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use an adequate range of vocabulary for the task, successfully attempting less common items and descriptive phrases such as "typical weekday activities," "figure then falls," and "declines to its lowest." However, there are some noticeable lexical errors and awkward word choices that reflect this band, such as spelling "Japanese" as "Japnese," and stating "the number of students with the most hours spent studying are Japnese students," where you mean the amount of time rather than the number of students. While these inaccuracies do not seriously impede communication, they prevent the vocabulary score from reaching a higher level. Expanding your range of collocations and checking spelling carefully will help improve this criterion.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

The response contains a mix of simple and complex sentence forms, demonstrating an attempt to use varied structures to compare the data across countries. There are, however, some grammatical errors and awkward phrasing present throughout the text. For instance, the sentence "students from UK and Germany get an equal number of hours by 7 hours each" misuses prepositions, and there are missing articles in phrases like "students in UK" instead of "students in the UK." Punctuation errors also occur, such as comma splices where independent clauses are linked without proper conjunctions or punctuation. These errors do not impede overall communication, but they occur frequently enough to keep the writing at this level.

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