Band 6.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.5 · IELTS Academic Practice Accelerator · 2026-10-12

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 6.5)

The bar chart illustartes the typical weekdays for the students in UK,Japan and Germany and how they spend their weekdays on sleeping, studying and relaxing. Overall, Studying is the most time consuming activity in japan, at 13 hours, while relaxing takes only 4 hours. In comparison, students in the UK and Germany have more balanced daily routine with almost same figures.

In the UK, students spend 8.5 hours sleeping, 8 hours studying, and 7 hours relaxing. Sleeping is the most taking activity, while relaxing is the least time consuming activity. These figures showed that students in the UK have a balanced weekdays routine.

In Japan, students spend 13 hours studying, which is higher than the 7 hours sleeping, and 4 hours relaxing. In Germany, students spends 9 hours studying, 8 hours sleeping, and 7 hours relaxing, therefore, students in the Germany have more balanced weekdays routine as compared to the Japanese students.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.5

You identify the main contrast accurately: Japan allocates the most time to studying (13 hours) and the least to relaxing (4), while the UK and Germany have more even figures. The country-by-country details are also largely correct, including the UK’s 8.5 hours of sleep and Germany’s 9 hours of study. This gives the response a clear overview and relevant supporting data. However, the comparison that the UK and Germany have “almost same figures” is broad: their sleeping and studying totals differ, and the UK’s sleep figure is 8.5 rather than 8. The claim that sleeping is the UK’s most time-consuming activity is correct, but the overview could compare the three countries more precisely and consistently to develop the key features further.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.5

The response is arranged in a sensible sequence: an introduction and overview are followed by separate paragraphs on the UK and Japan/Germany. This makes the information easy to follow, and linking expressions such as “Overall,” “In comparison,” and “therefore” help signal relationships. The organisation is coherent, though the country-by-country approach leads to some repetition of the idea that routines are balanced, especially in the UK and Germany paragraphs. Some connections are also a little mechanical, and “therefore” does not clearly express a consequence in the final sentence. To make progression more flexible, group the figures around the main contrasts—for example, Japan’s unusually high study time versus the similar relaxation figures in the UK and Germany—and use comparisons to link details across paragraphs.

Lexical Resource: Band 6.0

You use an adequate range of task-related vocabulary, including “time consuming,” “balanced daily routine,” and “in comparison,” and the meaning remains clear throughout. There are, however, some inaccurate or unnatural choices that limit precision. “The most taking activity” is not a natural way to describe the largest figure, and “balanced weekdays routine” is awkward; “weekday routine” or “more evenly distributed schedule” would be clearer. “Almost same figures” also needs a more natural construction, such as “almost the same figures.” The spelling error “illustartes” is noticeable, and country names should be capitalised consistently, particularly “Japan.” Aim for accurate collocations and proofread spelling and capitalisation.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 6.0

You use a mix of simple sentences and more complex structures, including the contrast introduced by “while” and the comparison in “which is higher than.” Most meanings are understandable, but some grammatical errors remain. For example, “students spends” should be “students spend,” and “students in the Germany” should be “students in Germany.” In “students in the UK and Germany have more balanced daily routine,” the singular count noun needs an article (“a more balanced daily routine”), or the phrase should be recast in the plural. The sentence “These figures showed” also shifts unnecessarily into the past; use “show” when describing the chart. Greater control of agreement, articles, and tense would make the otherwise clear comparisons more accurate.

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