Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Cambridge IELTS 13 · 2026-10-30

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 maps show how a road access to city hospital changed between 2007 and 2010.

Overall, it is clear that road accessebility to city hospital has undergone significant development, with many original features being removed or replaced. Two roundabouts, private parking facilities, and Bus station have been added, while the city hospital and both roads remained unchanged.

In 2007, there was a combined parking for both staff and public but now it has been changed into seperate parking.Moreover, Twice roundabouts also introduced in 2010. Ultimately, One connects the city hospital with hospital road and second connects city road with hospital road.In addition, Bus stops had been replaced by a new Bus station and apparently it connects both roundabout directly.

On the other side, Some architectural monuments remain unchanged in by 2010 namely, Ringroad, City road , and City hospital were placed at their conventional places.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0

You identify the main changes and provide an overview: the parking arrangement changed, bus stops were replaced by a bus station, and two roundabouts were added, while the hospital and main roads stayed in place. These are relevant and broadly accurate. However, some details are unclear or imprecise: the roundabouts are at the Ring Road and City Road junctions with Hospital Road, rather than one simply connecting the hospital to Hospital Road. Calling the new parking “private” is also unsupported; the map labels it as staff and public parking. The final paragraph repeats unchanged features without adding much detail. The response is five words below the required minimum, and fuller, more precise reporting would strengthen coverage.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0

The response has a recognisable structure, with an introduction, an overview, and paragraphs describing the changes and unchanged features. This gives the reader a coherent overall route through the information. However, progression is weakened by abrupt or awkward links such as “Ultimately” and “On the other side,” which do not clearly express the relationships between the map features. The third paragraph also combines several changes in a compressed sequence, while the final paragraph repeats the idea that the roads and hospital remained unchanged. Use clearer grouping—for example, describe the road junction changes together, then the parking and bus facilities—and make references such as “it” explicit. This would make cohesion less mechanical and the comparisons easier to follow.

Lexical Resource: Band 6.0

You use a reasonable range of task-related vocabulary, including “roundabouts,” “parking,” “replaced,” and “remained unchanged,” so the main developments can be understood. There are also attempts at more formal wording, such as “undergone significant development.” However, several choices are inaccurate or unnatural: “road accessebility” is misspelled and awkward, “private parking facilities” does not match the map’s labels, and “architectural monuments” is not an appropriate description of the hospital and roads. Spelling errors such as “seperate” and “Ringroad” also reduce accuracy. Aim for precise map vocabulary and natural collocations, such as “road access,” “car parks,” and “features that remained unchanged.”

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You attempt both simple and more complex sentence forms, including the overview sentence beginning “Overall” and the clause “while the city hospital and both roads remained unchanged.” Meaning is generally recoverable, but some grammatical errors and punctuation problems remain. For example, “a road access” uses an unnecessary article, and “Twice roundabouts also introduced” lacks a correctly formed verb phrase; write “Two roundabouts were also introduced.” In “One connects … and second connects …,” the second clause needs an article and clearer parallel structure. Several sentences also have inconsistent capitalisation and missing spaces after full stops, which affect punctuation control. Check articles, passive verb forms, and sentence boundaries when editing.

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