Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Cambridge IELTS 15 · 2026-10-07

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

The chart below shows the results of a survey about people’s coffee and tea buying and drinking habits in five Australian cities.

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

Student answer (Band 6.0)

The chart illustrates coffee and tea purchasing and drinking behavior in five different cities of Australia.

Overall, Residents in majority of cities preferred to go to a cafe to have tea or coffee rather then buying fresh coffee in last month. Only noticable expection was Adelaide where slight majority of people prefered to buy instant coffee instead of going out.

Melbourne and Hobart had the most share of residents that went to a cafe for tea or coffee, both around 62 percent. In contrast, approximately 55 percent and 48 percent of residents of both cities bought instant coffee respectively . This behavior was also prominant in Sydney with over 60 percent going out while 45 percent bought instant coffee and less than 45 percent purchased fresh coffee.

Adeladide was the only city where majority of people bought instant coffee at 50 percent while habit of going out was slightly less then 50 percent. Futhermore propotion of people in Brisban that went out to a cafe was at over 55 percent while more then 50 percent bought instant coffee and less then 35 percent bought fresh coffee.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0

You identify the main pattern that café visits were generally more common than fresh-coffee purchases, and you include relevant comparisons across the cities. The figures are mostly grounded in the chart: for example, café attendance is about 61% in Sydney and around 63% in Melbourne and Hobart, while Adelaide is the exception where café visits are just below instant-coffee purchases. However, the overview is not fully precise: Adelaide’s instant-coffee figure is about 50%, but it is not clearly a majority, and the claim that residents “preferred” one habit suggests a preference the survey does not establish. Some comparisons are also incomplete, particularly for Melbourne and Hobart. A more exact overview and fuller coverage of the three categories would strengthen the report.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0

The response has a clear overall structure: an introduction, an overview, and two paragraphs comparing city results. The progression from the broad pattern to individual cities is generally easy to follow, and linking expressions such as “In contrast” and “Furthermore” help signal comparisons. However, the grouping of information is not always clear. In “approximately 55 percent and 48 percent of residents of both cities,” it is difficult to tell which figure belongs to Melbourne and which to Hobart. The final paragraph also moves quickly between Adelaide and Brisbane without a clear comparison linking them. Use parallel phrasing for each city and make references explicit—for example, state each city’s café and instant-coffee figures together—to make cohesion less dependent on the reader’s interpretation.

Lexical Resource: Band 6.0

You use an adequate range of task-related vocabulary, including “purchasing,” “majority,” “approximately,” “proportion,” and “in contrast.” These choices allow you to describe the chart and make comparisons, and the meaning is generally clear. Some word choices and collocations are imprecise, however: “preferred to go to a cafe” implies a preference rather than reporting survey participation, while “had the most share of residents” is not a natural way to describe the highest proportion. There are also spelling errors in “noticable,” “expection,” “prominant,” “Adeladide,” “Futhermore,” and “propotion.” Aim for accurate, conventional chart language such as “the proportion who visited a café” and check spelling carefully; this would make your vocabulary more precise and controlled.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You use both simple and more complex sentence forms, including the contrast in “Only noticeable exception was Adelaide where…” and the clause beginning “while more than 50 percent…”. Most sentences communicate the intended comparisons, but some grammatical errors remain. For example, “Only noticeable exception was Adelaide” needs an article (“The only noticeable exception…”), and “where slight majority of people preferred” also needs an article before “slight majority.” Tense is inconsistent in the overview: “preferred” and “prefered” describe the survey as if it were a continuing preference, whereas the chart reports past-period behaviour. The sentence beginning “In contrast” also has an unclear construction around “both cities.” Use consistent past-tense reporting and check articles, clause structure, and punctuation to improve accuracy.

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