Band 7.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 7.0 · Cambridge IELTS 13 · 2026-10-10

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 7.0)

The maps illustrate a city hospital's road access in 2007 and 2010.Overall, there are some major differences between the two maps including a bus station and two roundabouts. Meanwhile, some places such as the ring road and the city road still remain at the same location.

In 2007 the city hospital had a common parking area for staff and public along the eastern side of the hospital road. However, in 2010 that parking area has been reserved only for the staff while a separate public car park is available alongside the hospital.

The hospital road had various bus stops on its west in 2007, but they have been converted into a single bus station in 2010. In addition, there are two roundabouts on both north and south sides of the hospital road in 2010, whereas no such roundabouts were present previously in 2007. The ring road and city road are still at the same location.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 7.5

You identify the main changes clearly: the shared car park becomes staff-only, a separate public car park is added, bus stops are replaced by a bus station, and two roundabouts are introduced. The overview also usefully notes that the main roads remain in place. These points are generally accurate and relevant. However, there are a couple of imprecisions: the bus stops were on both sides of Hospital Road, not only on its west, and the public car park is east of the Ring Road rather than simply “alongside the hospital.” The roundabouts are specifically at the Ring Road and City Road junctions. More precise location details would make an already clear account more fully developed.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 7.0

The response has a clear overall progression, moving from an overview to the parking changes and then to public transport and road layout. Paragraphing helps distinguish the general summary from the details, and linking expressions such as “However,” “In addition,” and “whereas” make the comparisons easy to follow. The final sentence reinforces the unchanged road layout, although this point has already appeared in the overview, creating slight repetition. Some transitions could also connect the changes more smoothly rather than presenting them as a list. Overall, the organisation is logical and the reader can follow the comparison without difficulty; more varied referencing and less repetition would make cohesion more flexible.

Lexical Resource: Band 6.5

You use a suitable range of task-related vocabulary, including “reserved,” “converted,” “separate,” and “roundabouts,” and the meaning remains clear. There is some flexibility in describing changes, but a few choices are imprecise or less natural for map reporting. “Common parking area” would be better expressed as “shared car park,” while “alongside the hospital” does not accurately specify the public car park’s position. “On both north and south sides” is also an awkward way to describe the roundabouts’ locations. Greater precision with spatial language and more natural collocations would strengthen the vocabulary, while retaining the clear, accessible style already present.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 6.5

You use a mix of simple and complex structures, including contrast clauses with “while” and “whereas,” and most sentences communicate the intended comparisons clearly. Some grammatical and punctuation slips remain. There is no space after the full stop in “2010.Overall,” and the phrase “on both north and south sides” is missing the articles needed for natural phrasing (“on both the northern and southern sides”). Tense use is also not fully consistent: the account shifts between past forms such as “had” and present forms such as “has been reserved” and “are available” when describing changes between dated maps. Keeping the map description consistently in the past would improve control.

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