Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · IELTS Academic Practice Accelerator · 2026-11-03

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 the average hours pupils inolve in three activities on a weekday in different ccountries.

Overall, students of Japan spend the maximum hours by studying, while a least time is allocated for relaxing. Although, the relaxing hour shows a similar trend for both UK and Germany, Sleeeping hours is slightly higher in UK than other two countries.

In UK, students spend almost identical hours by sleeping , studying and relaxing and the number is 8.5, 8 and 7 hours respectively. A relatively similar figure can be observed for Germany. Compare with UK, Germany spends half an hour less in sleeping. Average nine hours is allocated for their studying.

However, the students of japan spend the lowest time in sleeping and relaxing than that of other two countries, and the average hour is 7 hours and 4 hours relatively. But the figure for studying rise sharply and the hours stood as 13 hours.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.5

You identify the main pattern accurately: Japan records the most study time and the least time for both sleeping and relaxing, while UK and Germany have the same relaxing figure. The country-by-country details are also mostly accurate, including the UK figures and Germany’s nine hours of study. This covers the key features and supports a clear overview. To make the summary more complete, compare the countries more directly across all three activities—for example, note that Germany’s study time is one hour above the UK’s, and that the UK has the highest sleeping figure. The overview’s claim that Japan allocates “a least time” to relaxing is accurate, but could be expressed more precisely as the lowest figure among the three countries.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0

The response has a coherent overall arrangement: an introduction and overview are followed by details for the UK and Germany, then Japan. This makes the main comparisons easy to locate. Linking expressions such as “Overall,” “However,” and “But” help signal the direction of the discussion, although some transitions are not fully logical: “However” introduces Japan’s figures without a clear contrast with the preceding point, and “But” repeats that contrast. The country-by-country structure also means comparisons across the same activity are somewhat scattered. Grouping related comparisons—for instance, study hours together—would create clearer progression. Some punctuation spacing, such as the space before the comma after “sleeping,” also interrupts the flow.

Lexical Resource: Band 6.0

You use an adequate range of vocabulary for describing the chart, including “illustrates,” “allocated,” “similar figure,” and “rise sharply.” These choices show an attempt to use more formal reporting language, and the meaning is generally clear. However, some word choices and collocations are inaccurate or awkward: “pupils involve in” does not naturally describe time spent on activities, and “the maximum hours by studying” is not idiomatic. There are also spelling errors in “inolve,” “ccountries,” and “Sleeeping,” as well as inconsistent capitalisation of “Japan.” Use precise chart language such as “spend,” “record,” and “the highest/lowest figure,” and proofread spelling and country names carefully.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You attempt both simple and more complex sentence forms, including a contrast clause beginning “Although” and a sentence comparing Germany with the UK. The main information remains understandable, but some grammatical errors recur. “Although” is used as a sentence opener without a main clause, and “the relaxing hour shows” has a singular subject where the intended meaning is plural or refers to a figure. In “Germany spends half an hour less,” the country is incorrectly presented as the person doing the activity; use “students in Germany spend.” Other issues include “a least time,” “the average hour is 7 hours,” and inconsistent comma spacing. Aim for complete clauses and check subject–verb agreement, articles, and sentence punctuation.

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