Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · IELTS Academic Practice Accelerator · 2026-10-27

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 graph demonstrates the engagement of time in three different activities on an average weekday of students in UK, Japan and Germany.

At the first glance, a large proportion of their time the Japanese students focused on studies.

In UK, students spend more than half of their time which is 8.5 hours on sleep and 8 hours on their study. UK students only spend 7 hours of their time on sleep.

In Germany, Students engage 9 hours on study and 8 hours on sleep. While relaxing time is similar to that of UK which is 7 hours.

In Japan, students dedicate 13 hours on studies followed by 7 hours on their sleep. Only 4 hours is seperated on relaxing.

In conclusion, it can be observed that students focus most of their time on study rather than relaxing whereas the students of UK and Germany balances out on sleep, study and relaxation.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0

You identify the main contrast: Japanese students spend the most time studying, while their relaxing time is the lowest. You also report several relevant figures, including Japan’s 13 hours of study and 4 hours of relaxation, and Germany’s 9 hours of study. However, the UK figures are confused: 8.5 hours is sleeping and 8 hours is studying, but you then say UK students spend 7 hours sleeping; 7 hours is their relaxing time. The overview is also broad, and the claim that UK and German students “balance out” across activities is not clearly supported, especially given the differences in their sleeping and study figures. Make the overview more precise and check each country’s figures against the chart.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0

The response has a clear overall arrangement, moving from an opening statement to a general observation, country-by-country details and a conclusion. This makes the information easy to follow. However, the paragraphing and linking are somewhat mechanical: each country is introduced in the same way, and “In conclusion” repeats a summary rather than adding a sharper overview. The sentence beginning “At the first glance” is isolated and does not smoothly lead into the data. There is also a confusing shift in the UK paragraph from sleeping and studying to saying students spend seven hours sleeping. Grouping the main comparisons—for example, the highest study figure and the lowest relaxation figure—would create stronger progression and clearer connections.

Lexical Resource: Band 6.0

You use an adequate range of task-related vocabulary, including “dedicate,” “followed by,” “relaxing” and “proportion,” and the reader can generally understand the comparisons. There are, however, several awkward or inaccurate collocations, such as “engagement of time,” “focused on studies,” “engage 9 hours on study” and “4 hours is seperated on relaxing.” These choices make some descriptions less natural and precise. Spelling is also inaccurate in “seperated.” Prefer standard chart language such as “spend time studying,” “devote nine hours to studying” and “allocate four hours to relaxation.” More consistent use of precise activity terms would strengthen the report.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You attempt both simple and more complex sentence forms, including the contrast introduced by “While relaxing time is similar to that of UK.” Most of the meaning remains understandable, but some grammatical errors affect accuracy. For example, “a large proportion of their time the Japanese students focused” has an awkward sentence structure, and “students spend more than half of their time which is 8.5 hours” does not clearly connect the time figure to the activity. In the conclusion, “the students of UK and Germany balances out” has a subject–verb agreement error. Capitalisation is inconsistent in “Students” after “In Germany.” Aim for clearer sentence patterns and check agreement, articles and punctuation when editing.

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