Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · 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 6.0)

The bar chart below shows how students from three different countries spend their time on weekdays.

Overall, this survey includes three countries: Japan, the UK, and Germany. The three activities, sleeping, studying, and relaxing, are selected for comparison. Concerning study, Japan stood highest, as 13 percent

of the students spend their time studying. Germany and UK have little difference, as 9 percent of students allocate their time to studying in Germany, while UK has the lowest percentage at 8 percent.

The remarkable difference can be observed in relaxing activity in Japan from other two countries. Japan remained at the lowest, with 4 percent of students engaging in relaxation. The UK and Germany share the same percentage as both stood at 7 percent. Sleeping activity is slightly higher in UK with 8.5 percent. Germany stood out at 8 percent and Japan remained the lowest at 7 percent.

Overall, Japan has more contrasting results than the other two countries, as they share the same percentage in relaxing, and there is not much difference in sleeping and studying as well.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.5

You report the main comparisons accurately: Japan has the highest study figure (13), the lowest relaxation figure (4), and the UK and Germany both record 7 for relaxing. The sleeping figures are also correctly compared. However, the overview is not fully effective: the opening “Overall” mainly lists the countries and activities, while the final overview says the UK and Germany “share the same percentage in relaxing” but does not clearly summarise the most important contrast—Japan’s much higher study time and lower relaxation time. The claim that the other countries show little difference in studying is also imprecise, since their figures are 8 and 9. A clearer, data-focused overview and more precise comparisons would make the response more complete.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.5

The response has a recognisable structure, with an introduction, a paragraph comparing study and relaxation, and a final paragraph about sleeping and overall patterns. This makes the information reasonably easy to follow. However, progression is weakened by having two paragraphs begin with “Overall”: the first mostly introduces the chart rather than summarising its main features, and the last repeats some earlier information. Connections such as “Concerning study” and “The remarkable difference” help signal topic changes, but the latter is vague and does not specify the comparison immediately. The final sentence also uses “as” to join ideas whose relationship is not fully clear. Organise the body by the strongest contrasts and use more precise links between comparisons.

Lexical Resource: Band 6.5

You use an adequate range of task-related vocabulary, including “allocate,” “engaging in relaxation,” “share the same percentage,” and “contrasting results.” These choices show some flexibility beyond basic descriptions, and the chart’s activities are consistently identified. At times, however, phrasing is unnatural or imprecise: “Japan stood highest” and “Germany stood out at 8 percent” are not idiomatic ways to describe figures, while “the remarkable difference can be observed in relaxing activity” is wordy. “Percentage of students” also suggests proportions of people, although the chart reports hours in a typical weekday. Greater precision in describing time and more natural collocations would strengthen the vocabulary while preserving your range.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 6.0

You use a mix of simple and more complex sentence forms, including the comparison clause “as 9 percent of students allocate their time to studying in Germany, while UK has the lowest percentage.” Most meanings remain clear, and the response includes some accurate structures, such as “both stood at 7 percent.” Some errors and awkward constructions remain. In “Japan stood highest,” the comparative form is not correctly formed; “the UK” also needs an article in “while UK has.” The final sentence shifts from “Japan” to “they,” making the reference unclear, and “as they share” does not clearly connect the ideas. Check articles, comparative structures, and pronoun references, and vary sentence patterns while keeping them controlled.

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