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 chart compares how students in 3 different countries typically spend their weekdays.

In all 3 countries, students take the least time to relax, while the rest of the time is spent sleeping or studying.

In Japan and Germany, Most of the students' time is taken up by studies, while the most sleeping time is in the UK. Japanese students barely relax, their rest time being just 4 hours , and sleeping time 7 hours. They lead in studying with 13 hours of study time on a typical weekday.

UK and Germany lie close together on the scale both having a healthy balance for their students, with 8.5 hours of sleep in the UK, alongside 8 hours of studying and 7 hours of relaxment, while in Germany students take the recommended amount of 8 hours of sleep, with 9 hours of studying and 7 hours of relaxment.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.5

You identify the chart’s main contrast: Japanese students spend the most time studying and the least relaxing, while UK students have the most sleep. Most reported figures are accurate, and the comparison between the UK and Germany is relevant. This meets the task well, with some features developed clearly, but the overview is incomplete: the claim that students in all three countries spend the least time relaxing is not true for the UK and Germany, where relaxing is lower than studying but not necessarily the only meaningful contrast. Also, “In Japan and Germany” overgeneralises studying as the main use of time, since the UK figures are close. The response is 147 words, below the 150-word minimum. A more precise overview and a little more comparison would strengthen coverage.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0

The response has a clear basic structure: an introduction, a broad summary, and then country comparisons. The progression from Japan to the UK and Germany is easy to follow, and linking phrases such as “while” help show contrasts. However, the overview’s generalisation about relaxing creates a less clear account of the main pattern, and the final paragraph combines several figures in a long sentence, making the comparisons somewhat dense. Capitalising “Most” after a comma also interrupts the flow. Grouping the figures more systematically—for example, comparing each activity across countries—would make the organisation more controlled. Overall, the arrangement is coherent, though some cohesion and referencing are not fully precise.

Lexical Resource: Band 6.0

You use an adequate range of task-related vocabulary, including “compares,” “taken up by,” “balance,” and “typical weekday,” so the chart is generally described clearly. There are also attempts to vary phrasing rather than repeat “spend.” However, some choices are imprecise or unnatural: “relaxment” is not the appropriate noun here, and “barely relax” sounds too informal and absolute for a data summary. “Healthy balance” and “recommended amount” introduce evaluations that the chart itself does not establish. Prefer neutral, precise expressions such as “time spent relaxing” and “recorded eight hours of sleep.” More consistent use of standard chart language would improve precision and style.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 6.0

You use a mix of simple and more complex sentence forms, including the contrast structure “while …” and the participial phrase “their rest time being just 4 hours.” Most meanings remain clear, but some punctuation and sentence-boundary choices need attention. In “Japanese students barely relax, their rest time being just 4 hours , and sleeping time 7 hours,” the comma before “and” is awkward, and the final phrase lacks a clear parallel structure. The long final sentence also joins several comparisons in a way that is difficult to control. Capitalising “Most” mid-sentence is another punctuation issue. Separating the figures into shorter, parallel sentences would help you retain complexity while improving accuracy.

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