Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Cambridge IELTS 21 · 2026-10-19

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 6.0)

The given below plans demonstrate a comparison of a college cafe before its restablishment and at present times.

Overall, several changes have been introduced and certain things are replaced. Kitchen, toilets, tables and chairs are kept at same place in both layouts.

In the Northwest corner, the serving area is replaced by hot meals section alongwith addition of a salad bar in the West area of cafe. In the middle of Northeast side the staff dining rooms are taken up by two divisions, a takeaway food and a coffee bar. Moreover, a bin which was used to be at West region of the cafe is now subsituted by recycled bins.

Furthermore, another incorporation has been seen in the Southwest area, a barbecue segment, which in past was empty. A major establishment seen in the cafe design is the arrangement of out seating which covers the entire South portion of the cafe. However, kitchen is at top left of North side with tables and chair at the core of the cafe structure.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.5

You identify the main transformation and give a useful overview that the kitchen, toilets and central seating remain, while other facilities change. Several details are accurately reported, including the hot-meals counter, salad bar, replacement of the staff rooms, and new outdoor seating and barbecue. This covers the task well, with some of the key changes clearly selected. However, a few details are unclear or inaccurate: the bin was on the eastern wall, not the western region, and the outdoor seating is along the south rather than covering the entire southern portion. The new southern doors and the four outdoor tables are also omitted. More precise positioning and fuller reporting of these features would make the account more complete and developed.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0

The response has a recognisable structure: an introduction, an overview, and paragraphs describing changes. The sequence from the north-west to other areas gives the reader some sense of how the café has been reorganised, and linking expressions such as “Moreover” and “Furthermore” help connect points. However, the progression is not consistently clear. The final sentence repeats the kitchen and central seating information already given in the overview, while “However” does not express a clear contrast there. Some references, such as “another incorporation” and “which in past was empty,” make the relationship between the old and new plans less direct. Grouping unchanged features together, then describing indoor and outdoor changes in a clearer order, would improve cohesion.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use a reasonable range of vocabulary for describing a redesigned space, including “replaced,” “addition,” “divisions,” and “incorporation.” These choices show an effort to avoid repeating basic words. However, several expressions are inaccurate or unnatural for this task, such as “restablishment,” “at present times,” “taken up by,” and “out seating.” There are also spelling errors in “subsituted” and “alongwith,” and “recycled bins” is less precise than the label shown in the plan. These issues sometimes make the description less clear, even though the main meaning is generally understandable. Prefer straightforward, accurate map vocabulary and check spelling and collocations carefully.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You attempt a mix of simple and more complex structures, including the overview sentence and clauses beginning “which” and “However.” The main comparisons are usually understandable, but some grammatical errors remain. For example, “Kitchen, toilets, tables and chairs are kept at same place” needs articles and more natural tense construction; “a takeaway food and a coffee bar” has an incorrect article and number pattern; and “which in past was empty” is missing an article and has an awkward clause structure. The final sentence also combines several locations without a clear grammatical relationship. Use past and present forms consistently when comparing the plans, and check articles, plurals, and sentence boundaries. More accurate control of these structures would strengthen the response.

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