Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Cambridge IELTS 14 · 2026-11-04

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 pie chart differentiates the three common proportions of nutrients in everyday meals, that are harmful if taken in large amounts.

Overall, highest percentage of sodium and saturated fats are consumed in dinner and a large proportion of added sugars is consumed from snacks. Where as breakfast and lunch are high with sodium and saturated fats.

Dinner has the highest percentage of sodium 43% followed by saturated food which is 37% , whereas added sugars in dinner, drops to 23%. Levels of nutrients follow a similar path in lunch meals, starting from the highest 29% sodium, 26% saturated fats with a small dip in added sugar which is 19%.

On the other hand the levels of sodium in breakfast and snacks are same. Like wise the amount of saturated food and added sugars are same in the breakfast meal. But level of saturated fats rise to 21% in snacks. Added sugars biggest proportion of 42%, can be seen in snacks.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.5

You identify the main pattern accurately: dinner has the highest sodium and saturated-fat shares, while snacks account for the largest added-sugar share. The figures you report for dinner, lunch, breakfast and snacks are consistent with the chart, and the overview gives the reader a useful summary. This meets the task well, with some features more fully covered than others: breakfast and snacks are compared, but the overview’s claim that breakfast and lunch are “high” in sodium and saturated fats is broad and does not clearly distinguish their levels from dinner. To strengthen the response further, make the overview more precise and compare the contrasting peaks directly—for example, dinner’s 43% sodium versus snacks’ 42% added sugar.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0

The response has a clear overall arrangement: an introduction, an overview, and paragraphs comparing dinner and lunch before breakfast and snacks. This makes the main information easy to follow. You also use contrast markers such as “whereas” and “On the other hand” to connect comparisons. However, some links feel mechanical or unclear. “Where as breakfast and lunch are high…” is a sentence fragment, and “Like wise” introduces a comparison without specifying clearly which figures are being compared. The final paragraph also moves between sodium, saturated fat and sugar in a somewhat list-like way. Grouping the figures more consistently by meal or by nutrient, and using complete sentences with clearer references, would make progression smoother.

Lexical Resource: Band 6.0

Your vocabulary is adequate for describing the chart, and terms such as “proportion,” “highest percentage,” “followed by,” and “a small dip” help communicate comparisons. There is some variety in how you describe the data, but several choices are imprecise or unnatural for this task. “Saturated food” is not the same as “saturated fat,” and “differentiates the three common proportions” does not accurately describe what the chart presents. “Consumed from snacks” is also less natural than a phrase describing the share of added sugar in snacks. Spelling and spacing in “Where as” and “Like wise” should be corrected. More precise chart vocabulary and natural collocations would improve clarity and control.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You attempt a mix of simple and complex sentences, including comparisons with “whereas” and a relative clause in the opening. Most of the data remains understandable, but some grammatical errors and punctuation problems are noticeable. The overview begins “Overall, highest percentage…” without the article “the,” and “Where as breakfast and lunch are high…” is an incomplete sentence. In “Dinner has the highest percentage of sodium 43%,” the relationship between the noun and figure needs clearer punctuation or a linking phrase. The sentence beginning “Added sugars biggest proportion of 42%” also lacks a finite verb. Aim to make each comparison a complete sentence, check articles and sentence boundaries, and punctuate figures consistently.

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