Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Cambridge IELTS 21 · 2026-10-25

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)

These diagrams illustrate the information about a college cafe. The first map shows previous design and second one explains how it look like nowadays.

Overall, several changes are made and new structure has numerous facilities than the past. Some new spots are added to make it more attractive.

Looking more close, the kitchen area, toilets, bins, table and chair are on same place as before, while staff dining room changed into two portions take away and coffee area. Subsequently, serving area for all food and drinks exhanged with hot meals.

In todays design, there is an extended area in the front of kitchen door is salad bar. There is also more tables and chairs set up for outdoor seating and on the left of this a particular area is for barbecue.

To conclude, old design is modify with new structure. Nowadays, there are more facilities than the past and people have more options.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.5

You identify the main overall change—that the café has gained facilities—and report several accurate comparisons, including the kitchen and toilets remaining in place, the staff dining rooms becoming takeaway and coffee areas, and the serving counter changing to hot meals. You also mention the salad bar and outdoor seating with a barbecue. This covers the key transformation, and the overview gives the reader a general sense of the redesign. However, some important details are missing or unclear: the recycling bins replace the former bin, and two new doors connect the café to the outdoor seating. The claim that there are “more tables and chairs” is imprecise; the central seating remains, while tables are added outside. More precise coverage and development of these changes would strengthen the report.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.5

The response has a recognisable structure: an introduction, a general overview, details about the interior, and a final summary. The sequence from the unchanged facilities to the new areas is broadly logical, and linking phrases such as “Overall,” “while,” and “Subsequently” help connect comparisons. However, the final “To conclude” repeats the overview rather than adding useful information, and some connections between details are unclear. For example, “In todays design, there is an extended area in the front of kitchen door is salad bar” makes the relationship between the kitchen and salad bar difficult to follow. Grouping the changes more clearly by location and using references such as “the former staff rooms” would make progression smoother and cohesion less mechanical.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use relevant vocabulary for describing a plan, including “kitchen area,” “staff dining room,” “serving area,” “outdoor seating,” and “barbecue.” This gives you enough topic-specific language to communicate the main changes. However, several word choices and collocations are inaccurate or unnatural, such as “new structure,” “more close,” “spots,” and “particular area.” There are also spelling or form errors in “exhanged” and “todays,” and “table and chair” should be expressed as a plural category. These issues do not prevent the reader from understanding the general message, but they reduce precision. Aim for standard plan-description phrases such as “the layout,” “on closer inspection,” and “a designated barbecue area.”

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You attempt both simple and more complex sentences, including comparisons with “while” and a clause beginning “which” is not yet used; the sentence “the kitchen area, toilets, bins, table and chair are on same place as before, while…” shows an effort to combine related information. However, some grammatical errors recur. For example, “how it look like” needs a correctly formed verb phrase, “several changes are made” should use a tense suited to a completed redesign, and “there is an extended area … is salad bar” has an incomplete sentence structure. Articles and plurals are also inconsistent, as in “on same place” and “table and chair.” Practise accurate past-tense descriptions and complete clause structures while retaining your attempts at complex sentences.

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