Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · IELTS Academic Practice Accelerator · 2026-10-19

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 compares how many hours students from UK, Japan and Germany spend on study, relaxing and sleeping during a weekday.

Overall, most pupils from Japan and Germany spend most of their time studying and students from all three countries spend least amoun of time relaxing on a regular working day.

Firstly, Japanese studnets spend 13 hour studying followed by German children who spend 9 hours and then UK students spend 8 hours during a regular wokring day respectively. Moreover, UK students spend 8.5 hours sleeping while German learners spend 8 and Japanese students give 7 hours to sleeping on a working day.

In addition , students from Japan spent the least time on relaxing only 4 hours while Uk and German students relax for 7 hour on a typical weekday.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0

You identify the chart’s subject and report the main figures accurately: Japan has the highest study time at 13 hours, while UK and German students each relax for 7 hours, and Japan has the lowest relaxation figure at 4. The overview also recognises that relaxing takes the least time in all three countries. However, the claim that students in both Japan and Germany spend most of their time studying is not supported for Germany, where sleeping (8 hours) is close to studying (9). The comparison of sleeping is included, but the response could explain the contrasts more fully. It is also 17 words below the required minimum, limiting the detail provided. Add a fuller overview and develop the key comparisons.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0

The response has a clear overall arrangement: an introduction, an overview, and paragraphs reporting study, sleep, and relaxation figures. This makes the information easy to follow, and linking expressions such as “Overall,” “Firstly,” and “Moreover” show how the points relate. However, the progression is somewhat mechanical, with “Firstly” and “In addition” doing much of the linking work. The study and sleep comparisons are grouped together, while relaxation is left in a short final paragraph; clearer grouping by the chart’s main patterns could improve the flow. There is also a small punctuation inconsistency around “In addition”. Use more varied, precise connections and ensure each paragraph develops a distinct comparison.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use enough task-related vocabulary to communicate the chart’s main categories, including “studying,” “relaxing,” and “sleeping,” and you vary the description of students with terms such as “pupils,” “children,” and “learners.” However, some choices are inaccurate or unnatural: “spend most of their time” overstates the data, “give 7 hours to sleeping” is awkward, and “least amoun of time” contains a spelling error. There are also spelling slips in “studnets” and “wokring,” and “Uk” should be written “UK.” These errors do not prevent understanding, but they reduce precision and control. Prefer standard chart-reporting collocations such as “spend 13 hours studying” and “devote 7 hours to sleep.”

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 6.0

You use a mix of simple and more developed sentence forms, including the overview sentence with “while” and the comparison beginning “while German learners…”. Most of the figures and relationships remain understandable. Some grammatical errors are present, however. In “Japanese studnets spend 13 hour studying,” the singular “hour” should be plural; “students from all three countries spend least amount” needs an article (“the least amount”); and “UK students spend 8.5 hours sleeping while German learners spend 8” would be clearer with a repeated unit or a parallel construction. The response also shifts between present and past (“spend” and “spent”) without a clear reason. Keep the present tense consistent for chart descriptions and check articles, plurals, and parallel phrasing.

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