Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Cambridge IELTS 20 · 2026-10-12

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 6.0)

Dear Ravi,

Hey how are you! I hope you're doing well. I writing to share my thoughts to organsize a small party in the Diamond hotel near the college building with all our old college friends. I'm planning to hire a catering service for a lunch and set a projecter where we can watch our old videos and images together so we can recreate our old memories.

This way we all have enough time to meet everyone and have a great chat. In addition, many people will travel from long distance, Therefore, they will feel more relax if everything is already prepare by the hotel. After dinner, not only we can have a time to visit college, but we can also meet our old teachers.

Booking is already done. I need your small help for sharing this invitation to some of our old classmates which are in your contact list.

Let me know if you need any help from my side.

Best Regards,

Parthik Pethani

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.5

You address all three requested points: you propose a lunch gathering at the Diamond Hotel, explain that it would allow classmates to talk and revisit memories, and ask Ravi to circulate the invitation. The specific plan to show old videos and visit the college and teachers makes the letter relevant and personal. The explanation of why the hotel arrangement suits people travelling from far away is useful, though the benefit of the celebration is not developed equally throughout; for example, the visit to the college is mentioned but not explained. To strengthen the response further, clarify the event schedule and give Ravi a little more detail about which classmates to contact or when invitations should be sent. The purpose and friendly tone are clear overall.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.5

The letter has a clear overall arrangement: it introduces the proposed celebration, gives reasons for it, and then makes a request for help. Paragraphing supports this progression, and links such as “In addition” and “After dinner” help show how the ideas relate. The sequence from lunch and videos to visiting the college is understandable. However, some connections are slightly mechanical or unclear. “This way” refers broadly to the plan, while “Therefore” begins a conclusion that would flow more naturally if joined to the travel point. The shift from “lunch” to “After dinner” also leaves the event schedule uncertain. Use more precise references and transitions, and make the order of activities consistent, to create smoother progression.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use enough vocabulary to communicate the event and its purpose, including “catering service,” “recreate our old memories,” and “invitation.” These choices make the plan easy to picture, and the tone is generally suitable for writing to a friend. However, several noticeable spelling, word-form, and collocation problems limit precision: “organsize” should be “organise,” “projecter” should be “projector,” and “feel more relax” is not the natural form. Phrases such as “small help” and “in your contact list” are understandable but could be more idiomatic. Aim to check spelling carefully and learn common word partnerships for organising events and asking favours. A slightly wider range of natural expressions would make the letter more fluent.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You attempt a mix of simple and more complex structures, including “not only … but we can also …” and a reason clause beginning “if.” Most of the message remains understandable, but some grammatical errors are noticeable. For example, “I writing” needs an auxiliary (“I am writing”), and “everything is already prepare” needs a past participle (“prepared”). In “not only we can have,” the auxiliary should come before the subject after “not only” (“not only can we have”). There are also issues with articles and sentence punctuation, such as the exclamation after “Hey how are you!” and the capitalisation of “Therefore” after a comma. Review verb forms and inversion in paired structures, while continuing to use varied sentence patterns.

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