Band 6.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.5 · Cambridge IELTS 21 · 2026-10-18

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

The plans below show a college cafe before it was redesigned and how it looks now.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The plans below show a college cafe before it was redesigned and how it looks now.

Student answer (Band 6.5)

The supplied plans illustrate the differences of a college cafe before and after renovation.

Overall, it can be seen that the main additions are outdoor seating, barbecue and salad bar. There are some replacements like recycling bins with bin and hot meal section replaces serving area.

The layout of cafe before redesign was consist of kitchen in the upper left corner with serving area below it. There was two rooms for staff dining and main hall was used for sitting, inaddition, there was bin in the right side of hall and toilets are just below the bin in the bottom right corner.

Now, after redesign there is hot meal section at the place of serving area and staff dining replace with take away food and coffee bar. Other than that recycling bins are install at the location of bin. Further, the major inclusions are outdoor seating in the bottom side with barbecue section. Finally, salad bar counter is introduced in the main hall.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 7.0

You identify the main transformation clearly: the former staff dining rooms become takeaway and coffee facilities, and the redesign adds outdoor seating, a barbecue and a salad bar. You also accurately note that the kitchen and toilets remain in place and that the bin is replaced by recycling bins. This gives the report a clear overview and covers the key before-and-after changes. Some details are generalised, however: the outdoor area is not located simply “in the bottom side,” and the new doors connecting it to the café are omitted. The description of the central seating area could also make its continued presence explicit. More precise spatial reporting and a little more detail on the new layout would strengthen an otherwise effective summary.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.5

The response has a clear overall progression: an introduction, an overview, a description of the original plan and then the redesigned café. This paragraphing makes the comparison easy to follow, and transitions such as “Overall,” “Now” and “Further” help signal the stages of the description. However, some links are mechanical or unclear. In “There are some replacements like recycling bins with bin,” the relationship between the old and new features is difficult to follow, while “Other than that” and “Finally” do not always express the precise connection between details. The report would be more cohesive if changes were grouped by location or function and linked with clearer comparisons, such as “whereas” or “in the same position.”

Lexical Resource: Band 6.0

You use an adequate range of vocabulary for describing a plan, including “renovation,” “replacements,” “inclusions” and “introduced.” The main changes are generally understandable, and terms such as “upper left corner” and “bottom right corner” convey location. Some word choices and collocations are inaccurate or imprecise, though: “differences of” is less natural than “differences between,” “hot meal section” does not match the plan’s label “Hot meals,” and “major inclusions” is awkward in this context. “Sitting” is also less precise than “seating.” Aim to use standard plan-description language and the labels shown in the visual, while varying repeated terms such as “section” and “area.”

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You attempt a mix of simple and more complex sentences, including the overview sentence beginning “Overall” and the longer description introduced by “in addition.” Meaning is usually recoverable, but errors in verb forms, agreement and articles occur across the response. For example, “The layout … was consist of” should use a correct past-tense construction, and “There was two rooms” requires plural agreement. In “staff dining replace with take away food,” the verb form and passive construction are faulty; “recycling bins are install” has the same problem. Articles are also missing in phrases such as “in the upper left corner” and “in the bottom right corner.” Practise accurate past-tense descriptions of the former plan and present-tense descriptions of the current one.

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