Band 6.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.5 · Cambridge IELTS 14 · 2026-10-10

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

The charts below show the average percentages in typical meals of three types of nutrients, all of which may be unhealthy if eaten too much.

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

Student answer (Band 6.5)

The pie charts illustrate the standard proportion of sodium, saturated fat and added sugar in usual meals, their excess consumption may be negative impact on health.

Overall, dinner shares largest proportion in all these nutrients, whereas breakfast contributes for smallest percentage of all. Conversely, lunch accounts for moderate quantity of them. Additionally, added sugar shares a high proportion in snacks.

Commencing from sodium, 43% sodium present in dinner more than rest of nutrients, 29% in lunch and 14% in both breakfast and snacks. Subsequently, saturated fats is also higher in dinner 37%. A moderate percentage in day meal 26% as well as 21% in snacks. In contrast, 16% of saturated fat is in breakfast

Furthermore, added sugar accounts for 42% in snacks which is bigger than all. Moreover, 23% of added sugar is present in night meal as well as 19% in lunch. Just 16% added in first meal of the day.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 7.0

You cover the three nutrients and all four meal categories, and the figures you report match the chart. Your overview identifies dinner as the largest contributor for sodium and saturated fat, breakfast as the smallest for these nutrients, and snacks as the main source of added sugar. This gives the reader a clear account of the main patterns, supported by relevant figures such as 43% sodium at dinner and 42% added sugar in snacks. The overview slightly overgeneralises by saying dinner has the largest share of “all these nutrients,” since snacks lead for added sugar. Make that distinction explicit, and compare the patterns across nutrients more directly to make the key features more fully developed.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.5

The response has a recognisable structure: an introduction and overview are followed by details on sodium and saturated fat, then added sugar. This sequence is easy to follow, and signposts such as “Overall” and “Furthermore” help indicate progression. However, some linking is mechanical or unclear. “Subsequently” does not express a clear relationship between the sodium and saturated-fat figures, while “Conversely” introduces a point that is not really a contrast. The overview also combines several comparisons in a way that obscures the exception for added sugar. Use more precise links and organise the body into clearer comparisons—for example, group dinner-led sodium and saturated fat together, then contrast them with snack-led sugar.

Lexical Resource: Band 6.0

You use an adequate range of task-related vocabulary, including “proportion,” “accounts for,” and “contributes,” and the nutrient and meal labels are generally clear. There are also attempts at less common phrasing, but some choices are inaccurate or unnatural: “negative impact on health,” “shares largest proportion,” and “bigger than all” do not express the comparisons idiomatically. “Day meal,” “night meal,” and “first meal of the day” are also less precise than the chart’s labels. These choices do not prevent the reader from understanding the data, but they limit precision and naturalness. Prefer standard chart language such as “accounts for the largest share,” “highest,” and the exact categories “lunch,” “dinner,” and “breakfast.”

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You attempt both simple and more complex forms, including the overview’s contrast and the sentence beginning “whereas breakfast…”. However, some sentences contain errors in clause structure, agreement, articles, or punctuation. For example, the opening joins two independent ideas with a comma, and “their excess consumption may be negative impact on health” lacks a grammatical structure. “Saturated fats is also higher” has a subject–verb agreement problem, while “16% of saturated fat is in breakfast” needs a more accurate article/preposition pattern. Several data statements are fragments, such as “A moderate percentage in day meal 26% as well as 21% in snacks.” Build complete sentences around each comparison and check agreement and sentence boundaries; this will make your range more controlled.

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