Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · IELTS Academic Practice Accelerator · 2026-10-21

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 given bar graph illustrates the information about the number of learners who do sleeping, studying and relaxing in weekdays in three nations such as UK, Japan and Germany.

Overall, the maximum number of Japan students are give more preference to studying, while other two nations children are almost sharing equal interest to sleeping and relaxing in the given time period.

After analyzing, it can be clearly seen that in UK and Germany, an equal number of days, they are spending on sleeping, while there is a difference of just 1 day between learners who are studying. However, students are utilising 7 days for relaxing in both UK and Germany.

Moving further towards the remaining data, Japan tutees are relaxing for 4 days, while most of the days they are consuming on studying that is 13 and it is followed by sleeping which is almost half than students who are studying.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.5

You identify the main contrast accurately: Japan allocates the most time to studying, while the UK and Germany show similar figures for relaxing. You also report several correct values, including 13 hours of study and 4 hours of relaxation in Japan, and 7 hours of relaxation in both other countries. This gives the response a relevant overview and meaningful comparisons. However, some details are inaccurate or unclear: UK and Germany do not spend an equal amount of time sleeping (8.5 versus 8 hours), and the UK–Germany study difference is one hour, but the figures are not stated. The claim that Japanese sleeping is “almost half” the study figure is also imprecise. More complete, precise reporting of the key figures would strengthen the response.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.5

The response has a clear overall structure, moving from an introduction and overview to comparisons between the UK and Germany, then Japan. Paragraphing helps the reader follow this progression, and linking phrases such as “Overall,” “However,” and “Moving further” signal shifts in focus. The organisation is generally coherent, though some connections are mechanical or unclear. For example, “After analyzing” does not clearly explain how the next comparison follows from the overview, and “the remaining data” is a vague reference. The second paragraph also combines sleeping, studying and relaxing comparisons in a way that could be more systematically ordered. Grouping the countries or activities consistently, and using clearer references, would make the progression smoother and more flexible.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use a range of task-related vocabulary, including “preference,” “difference,” “utilising,” and “consuming,” and the reader can generally understand the comparisons. However, several choices are unnatural or imprecise for describing a chart. “The number of learners who do sleeping” is not an appropriate collocation, while “tutees” does not mean students in this context. Phrases such as “maximum number of Japan students” and “sharing equal interest” also make the meaning less natural. Some repetition of “students” and “days” limits flexibility, and the chart reports hours rather than days. Aim for precise reporting language such as “spend,” “hours,” “the highest figure,” and “similar amounts of time.”

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You attempt a mix of sentence forms, including a complex comparison beginning “while” and a sentence using “However,” so the response is not limited to simple statements. Nevertheless, grammatical control is uneven, and errors sometimes make the relationships between ideas difficult to follow. For instance, “the maximum number of Japan students are give more preference” has problems with sentence structure and verb form, while “an equal number of days, they are spending” is not a complete, well-formed comparison. The phrase “sleeping which is almost half than students who are studying” also has faulty comparative construction. Practise building accurate subject–verb patterns and comparisons, and check articles, agreement and clause structure before finalising each sentence.

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