Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Cambridge IELTS 13 · 2026-11-09

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

The two maps below show road access to a city hospital in 2007 and 2010.

Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons wherever relevant.

Student answer (Band 6.0)

The two maps give information how a of way to city hospital changed from 2007 to 2010.

Overall, the road has undergone a lot of changes over the past three years, and new facilities have been added including parking place for cars and a bus station.

From the view of 2007, parking place was same for staff and general public just beside the hospital road and easily accessible also from city road. Though the bus stand was in the southeast corner of hospital, but it was replaced near the hospital road in 2010.

In 2010, the arrangement around the hospital road has significantly refurbished and construction of roundabout developed near the hospital. New parking place was divided into two category-one was for public access adjacent to main hospital where other was for hospital employees linked with hospital road.

In conclusion, infrastructure and arrangement of hospital facilities changed over time but the main road remain stable in those three years.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0

You identify the broad change over time and include relevant features such as the separation of parking into staff and public facilities and the addition of a bus station and roundabouts. However, some details are inaccurate or unclear: in 2007 the bus stops were positioned on both sides of Hospital Road, not in the hospital’s southeast corner, and they were replaced by a bus station to the west of the road, not moved near it. The public car park was added east of Ring Road, rather than beside the hospital. Your overview that the main road remained stable is also too general, since roundabouts and new access arrangements altered Hospital Road. More precise descriptions of locations and the key changes would make the summary more complete.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0

The response has a recognisable structure: an introduction, an overview, descriptions of the two years, and a concluding statement. This gives the reader a coherent overall route through the information. Some links between ideas, however, are awkward or unclear. For example, “Though the bus stand was in the southeast corner … but it was replaced near the hospital road” combines contrasting linkers and makes the change difficult to follow. The paragraph about 2010 also moves quickly between roundabouts and parking without clearly distinguishing their locations. Use clearer sequencing, such as describing road changes first and parking and bus facilities next, and make references such as “it” explicit.

Lexical Resource: Band 6.0

You use a reasonable range of topic-related vocabulary, including “facilities,” “accessible,” “construction,” and “arrangement,” and the main subject remains understandable. There are also attempts at more formal wording, such as “significantly refurbished,” although this is not a natural description of a road layout. Several choices are imprecise or incorrectly collocated: “a of way” does not express the intended idea, “bus stand” is less suitable than “bus stops” or “bus station” here, and “parking place” is less natural than “car park.” These choices sometimes blur distinctions between the original stops and the new station. Aim for precise map vocabulary and check that formal-sounding words fit the feature being described.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You attempt a mixture of simple and more complex sentences, including a contrast clause beginning “Though” and a concluding sentence. The overall meaning is usually recoverable, but some grammatical errors remain. The opening phrase “give information how a of way … changed” is missing a suitable construction, while “the main road remain stable” has a subject–verb agreement error and an inconsistent past-time description. In “Though … but,” the two contrasting structures are used together, and “where other was” lacks a clear grammatical form. Review articles and sentence patterns, and check verb agreement and tense consistency. More accurate control of these structures would make the descriptions easier to read.

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