Band 6.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.5 · Cambridge IELTS 14 · 2026-10-29

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 compare the mean proportion of sodium, saturated fat and added sugars in four meals consumed by the people of USA.

Overall, dinner consumed in the USA got highest proportion of sodium and saturated fat followed by lunch.Added sugar is found highest in the snacks.Breakfast got moderate quantity of these nutrients.

Dinner has the highest proportion of sodium and saturated fat with makes up 43% and 37% respectively.Added sugar in dinner is lower than other two making 23%.Lunch has the second highest proportion of sodium and saturated fat with proprtion of 29% and 26% repectively followed by proportion of added sugar makes upto 19%.

Snacks has highest in proportion of added sugar making 42% of the whole meal.Other two nutrients(sodium and saturated fat) are 14% and and 21% respectively.Breakfast has moderate proportion of all these three nutrients with sodium making 14%, while other two saturated fat and added sugar got same proportion of 16%.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 7.0

You identify the main contrasts accurately: dinner has the largest shares of sodium and saturated fat, while snacks lead in added sugar. The figures you report for dinner, lunch, snacks and breakfast match the chart, and the overview gives a clear summary of the dominant patterns. This is a well-focused response that selects relevant details rather than listing every value without comparison. To make the account more fully developed, compare the smaller shares more explicitly—for example, note that breakfast and snacks both account for 14% of sodium, and that breakfast has the lowest saturated-fat share. The statement that breakfast has a “moderate quantity” is also less precise than the numerical comparisons elsewhere.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.5

The response has a clear overall structure: an introduction, an overview, and separate paragraphs describing dinner and lunch, then snacks and breakfast. This makes the main information easy to locate, and the comparisons generally progress logically. You also use linking expressions such as “Overall,” “followed by,” and “while.” However, some connections are mechanical or unclear, particularly “followed by proportion of added sugar makes upto 19%,” and the overview’s ideas run together without adequate spacing or punctuation. Improve cohesion by using complete comparison clauses and linking related figures consistently; for example, group each meal’s three values in a parallel structure. Clearer sentence boundaries and more deliberate transitions would make the progression smoother.

Lexical Resource: Band 6.0

You use an adequate range of task-related vocabulary, including “proportion,” “mean,” “consumed,” and “respectively,” and the meaning is generally clear. There are also attempts to vary phrasing, such as “highest proportion” and “moderate quantity.” However, some word choices and collocations are inaccurate or unnatural: “dinner consumed … got highest proportion” makes the meal sound like the consumer, while “making 42% of the whole meal” is not a precise way to describe the chart share. Spelling errors such as “proprtion” and “repectively,” along with the repeated use of “proportion,” limit precision. Choose standard chart language such as “accounted for” and “share,” and proofread spelling.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You communicate the comparisons using both simple sentences and some more developed structures, including “while” and “followed by,” but control is uneven. Several sentences contain errors in clause construction or agreement: “Dinner has the highest proportion … with makes up 43%” should use a structure such as “which accounts for 43%,” and “Snacks has highest” needs a plural verb and an article. The overview also contains a run-on sequence, while missing spaces after full stops and the duplicated “and” affect punctuation and readability. These errors do not prevent the reader from understanding the figures, but they recur across the response. Practise accurate relative clauses, subject–verb agreement, and sentence boundaries while retaining your attempts at complex sentences.

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