Band 6.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.5 · IELTS Academic Practice Accelerator · 2026-10-16

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)

This bar graph illustrates the average daily time spend by the students in three different nations.

Overall, this can be seen from the graph that most students prefer to invest more time while studying with the highest peak of Japanese students. After studying, sleeping and relaxing take the remaining time of the students.

On an average, Japanese students spend most of thier time about 13 hours while studying, which is followed by sleeping around 7 hours and relaxing about 4 hours. Similar trends are followed by German students with the highest peak of studying around 9 hours, following by sleeping around 8 hours and relaxing around 7 hours.

On the other hand, the UK students prefer to invest most of their time about 8.5 hours while sleeping, which is followed by studying 8 hours and relaxing about 7 hours. Taken together, Japanese students prefer to invest more time in study and least time while sleepying compared with other nations. Furthermore, the time spend by the UK and German students while studying, sleeping and relaxing is comparable.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 7.0

You identify the main pattern accurately: Japanese students spend the most time studying (13 hours), while the UK figure is highest for sleeping (8.5 hours), and relaxing is lowest in Japan (4 hours). The country-by-country comparisons are relevant, and the overview captures the broad contrast between Japan and the other two countries. Most reported figures match the chart. To make the account more fully developed, state the overall comparisons more precisely: for example, Germany has the highest sleeping figure after the UK, and its study time is one hour above the UK’s. The closing claim that UK and German figures are “comparable” is broadly reasonable but could be supported with a clearer comparison across all three activities.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.5

The response has a clear overall structure: an introduction, an overview, and paragraphs comparing Japan and Germany with the UK. The progression from the main pattern to country-specific figures is easy to follow, and phrases such as “On the other hand” help signal contrast. This meets the lower-band expectation of coherent overall arrangement. However, some linking is mechanical or imprecise: “Similar trends are followed by German students” is followed by a list rather than a clear explanation of the similarity, while “Taken together” does not introduce a particularly clear summary. Improve cohesion by grouping comparisons by activity or by explicitly linking each figure to the relevant country, and avoid repeating the same “followed by” pattern.

Lexical Resource: Band 6.0

You use enough vocabulary to describe the chart and make comparisons, including “highest peak,” “remaining time,” and “comparable.” The meaning is generally clear, and you attempt some varied phrasing. However, several choices are unnatural or imprecise for describing data: students do not “invest” time in studying, and “highest peak” is redundant. There are also spelling errors such as “thier” and “sleepying,” alongside the incorrect form “spend” in “time spend.” These do not prevent understanding, but they limit the accuracy and control expected at this level. Prefer standard chart language such as “spend,” “account for,” “figure,” and “respectively,” and check spelling and word forms carefully.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 6.0

You use a mix of simple and more complex sentence forms, including the overview sentence beginning “Overall” and comparisons introduced by “which is followed by.” Most relationships between the figures remain understandable. Some grammatical errors persist, however. In “the average daily time spend,” the participle should be “spent”; “most of thier time about 13 hours” is missing a grammatical link such as “for”; and “Similar trends are followed by German students” uses an awkward passive construction. The sentence beginning “Taken together” also has an unclear grammatical connection to the comparison that follows. Work on accurate verb forms, complete comparison structures, and natural clause construction while retaining your attempts at complex sentences.

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