Band 6.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.5 · Cambridge IELTS 21 · 2026-11-01

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 library users of five categories, while the table details their level of satisfaction for five features of the library.

Overall, majority of the library users were full-time undergraduates; however, academic staff made up the smallest proportion of library users. Additionally, it can be seen that users showed possitive review on staff being helpful, while most complained feature was availability of journals.

Full-time undergraduates made up the biggest proportion, with 44%, of users, followed by fullt-time postgraduates with 25%. Part-time graduates accounted for 16% of the total users, while 8% and 7% of them from distance learning and academic staff category respectively.

Majority of the users were quiet happy with the library staff, 95% of them vary satisfied and rest of them fairly satisfied. Similarly, library opening hours receieved positive feedbacks, with 65% very satisfied, and 35% quiet satisfied and none of them not satisfied at all. Wi-fi was something people compained about because 19% them were not satisfied, while others were more or less satisfied. Other things that people were not satisfied with were availibility of books and journals, with 10% and 20% disatisfied users.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 7.0

The response selects the main features and gives a clear overview: undergraduates are the largest user group, academic staff the smallest, and staff helpfulness receives the strongest satisfaction ratings, while journals attract the most dissatisfaction. The reported user-group figures are accurate, as are the key satisfaction figures for staff and opening hours. You also include books, journals and Wi-Fi, giving the summary good coverage. To make the comparisons more precise, report the satisfaction splits for books, journals and Wi-Fi rather than saying users were “more or less satisfied”; for example, journals had 45% very satisfied and 20% not satisfied. Also, “most complained feature” overstates the data: journals had the highest dissatisfaction, but a fifth were not satisfied, not necessarily a majority.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 7.0

The response is organised into a clear introduction, an overview, a paragraph on user categories and a final paragraph on satisfaction. This gives the reader a logical progression from describing the visuals to highlighting the main comparisons. Linking expressions such as “Overall,” “Additionally,” “while” and “Similarly” help connect the information, and the categories are presented in a sensible order. The final paragraph, however, combines several satisfaction features in a dense sequence, and phrases such as “Other things that people were not satisfied with” make the relationship between the figures less precise. Grouping the strongest positive results together, then comparing the three areas with notable dissatisfaction, would make the progression more controlled and the comparisons easier to follow.

Lexical Resource: Band 6.0

There is an adequate range of vocabulary for describing the visuals, including “proportions,” “accounted for,” “followed by,” and “positive feedback.” These choices help communicate the main patterns. However, several spelling and word-choice errors reduce precision: “possitive,” “receieved,” “availibility,” “disatisfied,” and “compained” should be corrected. Some expressions are also informal or imprecise for an academic summary, such as “quiet happy,” “people complained about,” and “most complained feature.” Use neutral reporting language and accurate collocations, for example, “users were dissatisfied with Wi-Fi reliability” or “journals recorded the highest proportion of dissatisfied users.” This would make the vocabulary more consistently appropriate to the task.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 6.0

The response uses a mix of simple and more complex structures, including a contrast with “while,” a relative clause in “feature was availability of journals,” and participial phrasing such as “with 44%.” Most sentences remain understandable, but some grammatical errors affect accuracy. The overview needs an article in “the majority of the library users,” and “8% and 7% of them from distance learning and academic staff category” is an incomplete construction; write, for example, “Distance-learning users and academic staff accounted for 8% and 7%, respectively.” In the satisfaction paragraph, “95% of them vary satisfied” also needs a correctly formed clause, such as “95% were very satisfied.” More consistent control of articles, complete clauses and sentence boundaries would improve accuracy.

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