Band 6.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.5 · Cambridge IELTS 20 · 2026-10-01

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

It is ten years since you left college. You'd like to organise an event to celebrate this anniversary with all your friends and classmates from college.

Write a letter to one of your college friends. In your letter

• say what kind of celebration event you'd like to organise

• explain why you think it would be good to celebrate in this way

• describe what help you need to organise this event

You do NOT need to write any addresses.

Begin your letter as follows:

Dear ....................................,

Student answer (Band 6.5)

Dear Mercy,

How are you, I believe you are doing great. I am writing to let you know about this amazing idea I have for our class.

It occured to me that this year makes it ten years we left college, and I will like to organize an anniversary party/ reunion for our class.

This will be a good way to reconnect with old friends and really know how everyone is fairing, also I would want us to create a forum where we can all communicate with one another and possibly assist anyone in need.

I would be glad if you can assist with searching for a venue close to the college, being that you still live in the city as this will be a perfect location that will bring back old memories and we get to visit the various restaurants and cafes that were trending in our time as part of the itinerary.

Warm regards to your family, as I await your response so we can begin the plans for the event.

Best wishes,

Izere

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.5

You successfully address all parts of the task by covering the type of event you want to organise (an anniversary party and reunion), explaining why it is a good way to celebrate (to reconnect, check on everyone, and create a support forum), and describing the help needed (finding a venue close to the college). Your ideas are relevant and generally clear, fulfilling the core requirements well. However, to reach a higher band, some of these ideas could have been more fully extended and developed with richer supporting details. For instance, the explanation of the support forum is introduced briefly without much elaboration on how it would function. The tone is appropriately informal and friendly throughout, establishing a clear purpose for the letter.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.5

Your letter has a coherent overall arrangement with a logical progression of ideas from the opening greeting to the final sign-off. You use basic cohesive devices appropriately, such as 'This will be a good way' and 'being that', to link your thoughts. Paragraphing is used sufficiently to separate different parts of the message, such as the purpose, the reasons, the request for help, and the closing. However, cohesion is sometimes slightly mechanical or relies on run-on structures, such as in the second sentence where a comma splice is used ('How are you, I believe you are doing great'). More varied and smoother transitions between sentences would elevate the flow of your writing.

Lexical Resource: Band 6.0

You demonstrate an adequate range of vocabulary for the task, successfully using functional terms such as 'anniversary party', 'reconnect', 'itinerary', and 'venue'. You attempt some less common vocabulary, though there are a few minor word choice and spelling inaccuracies that do not impede communication. For example, the phrase 'how everyone is fairing' contains a spelling error for 'fareing' (faring), and 'I will like' should be 'I would like'. Additionally, 'occured' is spelled as 'occured' in your second paragraph. To achieve a higher score, you should aim for greater precision in word choice and eliminate these minor spelling slips.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 6.0

You demonstrate a mix of simple and complex sentence forms, incorporating relative clauses and conditional-style structures effectively, such as 'I would be glad if you can assist with searching for a venue close to the college'. There are some grammatical and punctuation errors present, such as the comma splice in the opening sentence ('How are you, I believe...') and the modal verb usage in 'I will like' instead of 'I would like'. However, these errors rarely impede communication and do not obscure your overall meaning. To reach the next level, you need to produce a higher proportion of error-free sentences and exercise tighter control over punctuation and auxiliary verb forms.

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