Band 6.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.5 · Cambridge IELTS 21 · 2026-10-11

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

The chart and table below show the results of a survey of library users at a university.

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

Categories of library users

Student answer (Band 6.5)

The pie chart illustrates the proportions of the types of users that uses the library.

Overall, full-time graduates contributed the largest share in the library use, while academic staff accounted for the smallest proportion. Full-time postgraduates fall behind full-time graduates becoming the second category that uses the library most. Distance learning shares an approximately similar share as academic staff falling 1% above it.

Moving towards the table, about 95% of library users are satisfied with the delightful and helping behaviour of the staff while, 20% of the users are not satisfied with the availability of journals in the library making it the most unsatisfying factor of the library. 65% of users are satisfied with the opening hours of library and 35% are fairly satisfied with it. Half of the users are satisfied with the availability of books and nearly half showed a positive response towards the reliability of wi-fi. Overall the helpful nature of the staff was most appreciated by the users containing not a single negative remark.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.5

You identify several important features accurately: full-time undergraduates are the largest group (44%), academic staff the smallest (7%), staff helpfulness receives the strongest satisfaction rating (95% very satisfied), and journals have the highest dissatisfaction (20%). However, the overview mislabels the largest group as “full-time graduates” rather than full-time undergraduates, and the comparison of distance learners with academic staff is imprecise: their shares are 8% and 7%. The table coverage is also uneven; for example, you omit the fairly satisfied and dissatisfied figures for books and wi-fi, and do not compare the satisfaction patterns across all categories. This gives a relevant but partly incomplete account. Include a clearer overview and select a few more precise comparisons.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.5

The response has a clear overall sequence: it first describes the user categories and then turns to satisfaction, with paragraphing that helps distinguish the chart from the table. Linking phrases such as “Overall” and “Moving towards the table” make the progression easy to follow. The final sentence also reinforces the main point about staff helpfulness. Some connections are less smooth, however: “while” in the table paragraph joins figures that do not form a clear contrast, and the long sentence beginning “65% of users” moves through several separate findings without much signposting. Use more precise transitions and group related table results—for example, compare the two satisfaction levels for each feature—to make the progression more flexible and less list-like.

Lexical Resource: Band 6.5

You use an adequate range of task-related vocabulary, including “proportions,” “accounted for,” “availability,” and “reliability,” and the meaning is generally clear. There are also attempts at less common phrasing, such as “most unsatisfying factor” and “positive response.” Some choices are inaccurate or unnatural for describing survey data: “full-time graduates” does not match the chart label, “delightful and helping behaviour” is an unsuitable description of staff helpfulness, and “contributed the largest share in the library use” is awkwardly collocated. “Shares an approximately similar share” is also repetitive. Prefer precise chart language and natural collocations, such as “made up the largest proportion” and “rated staff helpfulness very highly.”

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 6.5

You use a mix of simple and more complex sentence forms, including a relative clause in “the largest share … while academic staff accounted for the smallest proportion” and a participial construction in “making it the most unsatisfying factor.” Most sentences remain understandable, and errors rarely obscure the intended meaning. Some grammatical slips are noticeable: “types of users that uses” has a subject–verb agreement error, and “full-time postgraduates fall behind … becoming” is not well formed. The table sentence beginning “about 95%” also has awkward punctuation around “while,” and “65% of users are satisfied with the opening hours … and 35% are fairly satisfied” would be clearer with parallel phrasing. Check agreement, sentence boundaries, and punctuation when combining multiple figures.

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