Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · IELTS Academic Practice Accelerator · 2026-11-02

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)

It can be seen on the chart, how youth spend their business days in different countries.

Overall, children in Japan spend most of their time with learning and at the same they spend too few time with relaxing. While, in Germany and in the UK, students take care all three activities equally.

According to the bar, Japanese children have to study the most amidst these countries which value is 13 hours, however they can relax or sleep the least time, which is totally only 11 hours per day.

The columns clearly show that German and British students likely to be balanced, because they subsume time better. In both countries, they do some relaxing activities for 7 hours, in addition, they can sleep 8 and 8.5 hours ever single day. Moreover, they study in average 8.5 hours which values are for the previous one 8 hours and for the last one 9 hours.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.5

You identify the main contrast: Japanese students spend the most time studying, while the UK and Germany show more similar patterns. You also include several accurate figures, such as 13 hours of study in Japan and 7 hours of relaxation in both the UK and Germany. This gives the response a relevant overview and supports its comparisons. However, the claim that Japanese students “relax or sleep the least time” is imprecise: their combined total is 11 hours, but sleeping alone is 7 hours and relaxing is 4. The statement that students in the UK and Germany manage all three activities “equally” also overstates the similarity, since study hours differ. More precise reporting of each category would strengthen the overview and development.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.5

The response has a clear four-paragraph structure, moving from an introduction to an overview and then to supporting comparisons. Linking expressions such as “Overall,” “According to,” and “Moreover” help signal the stages of the report, and the reader can follow the broad comparison between Japan and the other countries. Some connections are less effective or mechanical, however. “While” begins a fragment-like contrast after the overview sentence, and “however” joins ideas whose relationship is not fully clear. The final paragraph also shifts between countries and activities without a consistent order. Organising the details by activity—sleeping, studying, then relaxing—or by country would make the progression more controlled and the comparisons easier to track.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use relevant task vocabulary, including “chart,” “columns,” “study,” “relaxing,” and “hours,” and you attempt more varied expressions such as “spend most of their time” and “balanced.” However, several choices are inaccurate or unnatural for describing a chart, which limits precision: “business days” does not mean weekdays in this context, “amidst these countries” is awkward, and “subsume time better” does not convey the intended idea. “Take care all three activities” is also an unsuitable collocation. These choices are generally understandable from context, but they sometimes make the report sound unclear or informal. Aim for standard data-reporting phrases and use the activity labels consistently, rather than reaching for uncommon wording that does not fit.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You attempt a mix of simple and complex sentences, including a contrast with “because” and a clause introduced by “which.” The main message is usually understandable, but some grammatical errors affect accuracy. For example, “how youth spend their business days” has an unnecessary comma after “chart,” and “they spend too few time” has incorrect quantifier agreement. In “students likely to be balanced,” the verb “are” is missing; “they study in average” also has an incorrect preposition. The sentence beginning “Moreover” has an unclear relative clause (“which values are…”), making the figures harder to interpret. Practise checking articles, verb forms, quantifiers, and clause structure, especially in longer sentences. More consistently accurate complex sentences would improve control.

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