Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Cambridge IELTS 13 · 2026-10-11

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

The plans below show the layout of a university’s sports centre now, and how it will look after redevelopment.

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

Student answer (Band 6.0)

The illustrations gives information about the University sports centre today and its future look. Overall, it undergown significant modification like addition of sports hall, sports shop, dance studios and cafe.

It is quite evident from the given two maps today sport centre look is simple and it has outdoor courts on its both west and east side. However, main enterance from its lower centre side and its main structure has 25m pool in its central area and also has changing room is in west side and gym is in north side and seating is in east side and reception on its south side of pool.

Meanwhile, in future, it undergone multiple changes like addition of leisure pool in its west side and the main structure will be same but will have sports hall and two dance studios in its east side. There will be two significantt modification like sports shop and cafe added around main entrance. It also increased the numbers of changing room in east and west corner side.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.5

You give a relevant overview of the redevelopment, identifying the addition of a sports hall, shop, dance studios and café, and you compare the simpler present layout with the expanded future centre. Several key locations are also reported accurately, including the pool, gym, seating and reception. This covers the main task features well, though some details are incomplete or imprecise: the original changing room is west of the pool, but the future plan also adds changing rooms in both the south-west and south-east areas. The gym’s eastward extension and the leisure pool’s position replacing the western courts could be described more clearly. To strengthen the response further, distinguish what remains unchanged from what is added and specify the new facilities’ positions more precisely.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0

The response has a clear overall sequence: an introduction and overview, a description of the current plan, and then the future arrangement. This makes the comparison easy to follow, and transitions such as “However” and “Meanwhile” help signal the shift between plans. However, some sentences contain many features joined by repeated “and,” particularly the description of the present layout, so relationships between locations become less clear. The final paragraph also groups several additions together without a consistent spatial order. Organise each plan from west to east or from north to south, and use clearer referencing such as “the existing pool” and “the new eastern facilities.” This would make cohesion less mechanical and the progression more controlled.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use relevant vocabulary for describing plans, including “addition,” “central area,” “west side,” “east side,” and “significant modification.” These choices communicate the main changes, but the range is somewhat repetitive, especially in the repeated use of “side” and “addition.” There are also noticeable word-form, spelling and collocation problems, such as “undergown,” “enterance,” “significantt modification,” and “increased the numbers of changing room.” These errors do not prevent the reader from understanding the overall comparison, but they reduce precision and naturalness. Use more exact spatial terms and check spelling and collocations; for example, describe facilities as being “located to the west” and say that the number of changing rooms “increases.”

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempt both simple and more complex sentence forms, including a contrast between the current and future plans and clauses introduced by “However” and “Meanwhile.” The main information is generally understandable, but errors in agreement, tense, articles and sentence construction occur often enough to make some sentences awkward. For example, “The illustrations gives” has subject–verb disagreement, while “today sport centre look is simple” lacks appropriate articles and grammatical structure. “It also increased the numbers” shifts tense and does not form a clear comparison. Practise accurate present-tense descriptions of the existing plan and future forms for proposed changes, and break long lists into shorter sentences. Greater control of these basic patterns would make your comparisons clearer.

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