Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Cambridge IELTS 20 · 2026-10-22

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 Guru,

I hope you are doing well. I am writing to inform you an organizing get to gather party of our college friends. It's been many years that we haven't meet and would like to call all our batch mates to enjoy after so long time. I would like to arrange a bollywood party in banquate hall, which is centre of our city, where everyone can get easy access.

This event have bollywood music, dinner and non-alcoholic drinks. Moreover, we can get chance to meet others after such a long duration. So, there would be more fun and give a chance to get relax.

For this event, I need to grab all the contacts of our college friends from my instagram account, before that I also need to prepare invitation card along with the venue details and time of the event.

I am so excited and eagerly waiting for this event to meet you all, and have a fun after a decade.

Yours lovingly,

Patel

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0

You address all three points: you propose a Bollywood party in a central banquet hall, explain that it would let classmates reconnect and enjoy themselves, and mention collecting contacts and preparing invitations. The purpose and friendly tone are clear. The explanation of why this format is especially suitable is brief, however, and the help you need from Guru is not stated directly; the organising details mostly describe what you plan to do yourself. To strengthen the response, ask your friend for specific assistance, such as contacting classmates or booking the venue, and develop the benefits with one or two concrete details. This would make the ideas more fully supported while keeping the letter focused on the task.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.5

The letter has a clear overall arrangement: it introduces the reunion, describes the proposed event and its benefits, then turns to preparations and closes warmly. Paragraphing helps the reader follow these stages, and linking expressions such as “Moreover” and “So” show how ideas relate. This gives the response a coherent progression. Some connections are less smooth, though: “For this event” introduces a list of tasks without clearly distinguishing what you will do from what you want Guru to help with, and “So” makes the benefit sound like a direct result without explaining the link. Use clearer transitions and references, and organise the practical requests separately, to make the cohesion more flexible and precise.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use enough vocabulary to communicate the event and its purpose, including “Bollywood party,” “banquet hall,” “batch mates,” “invitation card,” and “venue details.” The wording is generally understandable, and the friendly expressions suit a letter to a college friend. However, several choices and collocations are inaccurate or unnatural, such as “get to gather party,” “after so long time,” “get easy access,” and “get relax.” There are also spelling and form issues, including “banquate” and “organizing” where the sentence needs a noun phrase. Aim for more natural combinations and check spelling and word forms; this will make your message sound more fluent and precise.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You attempt both simple and more developed sentence forms, for example the sentence describing the party and the clause beginning “where everyone can…”. The main message remains understandable, and the letter includes a range of sentence purposes. Some grammatical errors remain, particularly with verb forms, agreement, articles, and sentence construction. Examples include “I am writing to inform you an organizing…” (missing a suitable verb pattern), “we haven't meet,” and “This event have.” The phrase “It's been many years that…” also needs a more accurate tense structure. Review present perfect forms, subject–verb agreement, and article use, then proofread each sentence. More accurate control of these patterns would improve clarity while preserving your attempts at complex sentences.

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