Band 6.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.5 · IELTS Academic Practice Accelerator · 2026-10-09

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 6.5)

The bar graph compares the typical weekday time students spend on three activites, particularly in sleeping, studying and relaxing in three different countries: the UK, Japan and Germany.

Overall, students spent most of their weekdays on studying in Japan, while relaxing took up the least amount of time.In the UK and Germany almost same number of weekdays the students spent on relaxing.

UK students was spent almost 8.5 hours sleeping on a typical weekday, while students in Japan spent almost 7 hours in sleeping. Meanwhile, Germany students accounted for almost 8 hours on this activity. In addition, time spent on studying in the UK were considerable lower than the japanese students, at 8 hours and 13 hours, respectively. a total of 9 hour period was spent on studying by the Germany students.

As for relaxing, a total of 7 hour was spent by the UK and German students, while students in Japan was spent only 4 hours on this activity, which is considerably lower than other countrie's students.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 7.0

You identify the chart’s three activities and compare all three countries, with the main figures reported accurately: for example, Japan’s 13 hours of study, its 4 hours of relaxation, and the UK and Germany’s 7 hours of relaxation. The overview also highlights Japan’s high study time and the low relaxation figure. This gives the response a clear, relevant summary of the main features. However, the overview is not fully precise: studying is not the largest activity in every country, and sleeping is the largest category in the UK. A more complete overview would compare the overall patterns across all three countries, including the relatively similar sleeping figures and Germany’s intermediate study time.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.5

The response is arranged in a sensible sequence: an introduction, an overview, then details about sleeping and studying followed by relaxation. This makes the comparisons easy to follow, and linking expressions such as “Overall,” “Meanwhile,” and “As for relaxing” help signal shifts between points. The organisation is coherent, but cohesion is not consistently smooth. The overview’s sentence about the UK and Germany is awkwardly constructed, and the transition from sleeping to studying within the same paragraph makes the grouping less clear. There is also a missing space after the full stop in “time.In the UK.” To strengthen progression, use one paragraph for the overview and separate the detailed comparisons into clearly grouped paragraphs.

Lexical Resource: Band 6.0

You use an adequate range of task-related vocabulary, including “compares,” “accounted for,” “considerably lower,” and “typical weekday.” These choices communicate the chart’s subject and allow you to make direct comparisons. Some less natural word choices and collocations reduce precision, however: “time students spend on three activities, particularly in sleeping” is awkward, and “a total of 9 hour period was spent” is unnecessarily wordy. There are also spelling and form errors, such as “activites,” “japanese,” and “countrie's.” Aim for concise, conventional chart language—for example, “hours spent sleeping” and “German students spent nine hours studying”—and check spelling and country-name capitalization.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You attempt a mix of simple and more complex sentences, including comparisons with “while” and “which,” and the main information is generally understandable. However, some errors in agreement, verb forms, articles, and sentence construction remain. For example, “UK students was spent” should be “UK students spent,” while “the time spent on studying … were” needs a singular verb (“was”). In “students in Japan was spent,” the subject and verb pattern are also incorrect; write “Japanese students spent.” The overview phrase “almost same number of weekdays the students spent” is difficult to parse. These errors do not prevent the reader from understanding the figures, but more consistent control of basic sentence patterns and agreement is needed.

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