Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · IELTS Academic Practice Accelerator · 2026-11-01

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 illustrates a comparison of an average workday for students in UK, Japan and Germany. The vertical axis represents hours of the day whereas sleeping, studying and relaxing are shown by blue, red and green blocks respectively.

Japan shows highest number of studying hours which is 13 and followed by Germany with 9 studying hours. In addition, the least studying hours are held by UK which is 8.5 hours. UK has 8.5 sleeping hours which is maximum among the three countries, while Germany and Japan has 8 and 7 hours of sleeping respectively. Moreover, UK and Germany shares 7 hours of relaxing each day, while Japan shows least hours of relaxing that are 4.

Furthermore, japan shows a significant shift in studying and relaxing. UK has all these proportions relatively close to each other. Whereas, there is a regular change in relaxing, sleeping and studying hours of Germany.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.5

You report several key figures accurately, including Japan’s 13 study hours, Germany’s 9, and the 7 hours of relaxation in both the UK and Germany. You also identify the main contrast: Japan allocates much more time to studying and less to relaxing. However, the overview is not sufficiently clear or precise, and some details are inaccurate: the UK’s studying figure is 8 hours, not 8.5, and 8.5 hours of sleep is the UK’s highest figure, rather than the maximum across all categories. The final comparison that Germany shows a “regular change” is unclear and does not explain the pattern. A sharper overview of the highest and lowest figures, followed by accurate comparisons, would make the response more complete.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0

The response has a generally coherent order: it introduces the chart, compares studying, then sleeping and relaxing, and ends with broader observations. Linking phrases such as “In addition,” “Moreover,” and “Furthermore” help signal these moves. However, the final paragraph does not develop the comparisons clearly: “a significant shift” and “a regular change” are vague, and “Whereas” begins a fragment rather than a complete contrast. The first paragraph also spends space describing the axes and colours instead of establishing the main pattern. Organise the report into a concise introduction, a clear overview, and detail paragraphs grouped by the most useful comparisons; use linking words only where the relationship between ideas is explicit.

Lexical Resource: Band 6.0

You use an adequate range of task-related vocabulary, including “comparison,” “maximum,” “least,” and “proportions,” and the meaning is generally clear. Some choices are imprecise or unnatural for describing chart data. “Average workday” changes the task’s meaning, since the chart concerns a typical weekday and reports hours spent on activities; “blocks” is not the best term for bars, and “shows highest number” needs a more natural expression. “Significant shift” suggests change over time, which the chart does not show. Use precise reporting language such as “the figure for,” “accounted for,” and “was higher than,” while avoiding terms that imply a trend or change when the chart compares countries.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 6.0

You use a mix of simple and more complex forms, including a relative clause in “which is 13” and a contrast introduced by “while.” Most sentences communicate the intended comparisons, but some grammatical errors remain. For example, “Japan shows highest number” is missing an article, and “Germany and Japan has” and “UK and Germany shares” have subject–verb agreement errors. The sentence beginning “Whereas” is incomplete, and “the least studying hours are held by UK” is an awkward passive construction. Practise accurate articles and agreement, and make sure subordinate clauses are attached to a complete main clause. These corrections would make the comparisons smoother without requiring more complicated sentence structures.

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