Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Cambridge IELTS 14 · 2026-10-24

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 6.0)

The three pie charts show the average percentages of three nutrients, namely sodium, saturated fat, and added sugars, in typical meals consumed in the USA. All of which may be unhealthy if eaten too much.

Overall, dinner is the biggest source of sodium and saturated fat, while snacks contain higher amounts of added sugar, followed by the lowest amount of snacks in sodium.

For sodium, 43% is consumed at dinner, 29% at lunch while breakfast and snack both equally consumed at 14%.

For saturated fat, 37% is the highest source at dinner,whereas 26% is consumed at lunch.21% accounts for snacks and 16% is the lowest amount which is consumed by breakfast.

For added sugar, snacks is the topmost source of added sugar.23% account for dinner while 19% is consumed at lunch and breakfast is the lowest source of added sugar.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0

You identify the three nutrients and report the main meal patterns accurately: dinner has the highest shares of sodium (43%) and saturated fat (37%), while snacks lead in added sugar (42%). The overview also notes the low sodium share for breakfast and snacks. However, the added-sugar paragraph omits the key figure for snacks, and its statement that breakfast is lowest is not supported: breakfast is 16%, below lunch and dinner but not the smallest share. The response is also 20 words below the 150-word minimum; the 10 words copied from the task prompt are excluded from the count. Include the missing figure and make the overview and comparisons more complete.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0

The response has a clear overall arrangement: an introduction and overview are followed by separate paragraphs for sodium, saturated fat and added sugar. This makes the information easy to locate, and phrases such as “For sodium” and “For saturated fat” signal the topic of each paragraph. Cohesion is less effective within some sentences, however. The overview’s “followed by the lowest amount of snacks in sodium” is difficult to interpret, and the added-sugar paragraph moves from snacks to dinner and lunch without giving the snack figure. Some punctuation spacing also interrupts the flow. Use clearer comparisons and connect each figure explicitly to its meal category.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use relevant task vocabulary, including “average percentages,” “source,” and “consumed,” and the nutrient names are generally clear. There is some variation in how you describe proportions, but several choices are awkward or imprecise: “biggest source” and “topmost source” are less natural for chart reporting, while “lowest amount of snacks in sodium” obscures the intended comparison. “Accounts for” is also repeated and does not always fit smoothly with the percentage. These choices do not prevent the reader from understanding the main message, but they limit precision and naturalness. Prefer standard reporting language such as “accounted for,” “the largest share,” and “the smallest proportion.”

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You attempt both simple statements and more complex comparisons, for example, “while breakfast and snack both equally consumed at 14%.” The main information is usually understandable, but some grammatical errors remain. The opening fragment, “All of which may be unhealthy if eaten too much,” is not a complete sentence. In the sodium sentence, “breakfast and snack both equally consumed” lacks a suitable verb construction; write that they “each accounted for 14%.” There are also missing spaces after punctuation in “dinner,whereas” and “lunch.21%,” and agreement problems in “snacks is” and “23% account.” Use complete sentences, check singular/plural agreement, and proofread punctuation.

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