Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Cambridge IELTS 15 · 2026-10-12

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

Overall, it is clear that people preferred going to cafes for coffee or tea in last 4 weeks for all the cities except for Adelaide. People in Adelaide prefer to buy instant coffee.

To begin with, in Sydney 43% of people bought fresh coffee, whereas 45% of people bought instant coffee. However 61% of people accounted for going to a cafe for coffee or tea. A similar pattern is seen for people in Melbourne, 42% for fresh coffee, 48% for instant coffee and 63% visited cafes.

Turning to remaining data, people in Brisbane and Adelaide both accounted for fresh coffee at 34%. However, 53% of people in Brisbane preferred instant coffee compared to 50% of people in Adelaide. Furthermore, 55% of people visited cafe in Brisbane and approximately 49% of people went to a cafe in Adelaide. Finally, Hobart recorded approximately 39% for fresh coffee and 55% for instant coffee, while visiting a cafe stood at 63%.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0

You cover all three survey categories across the five cities and give a clear overview: café visits lead in four cities, while instant coffee is highest in Adelaide. Most figures are close to the chart, including the café results for Sydney and Melbourne and the fresh-coffee figures for Brisbane and Adelaide. However, the overview could identify the broader pattern more fully—for example, café attendance is generally the highest category, while fresh coffee is the lowest in Brisbane, Adelaide and Hobart. Some comparisons are reported city by city rather than selected and developed as key features, and the Hobart café figure is given as 63% without noting its similarity to Melbourne. This makes the summary relevant and clear, but not consistently selective or fully developed.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.5

The response has a clear overall structure: an introduction, an overview, and two body paragraphs that group Sydney and Melbourne before covering the other cities. This makes the information easy to follow, and transitions such as “To begin with,” “Turning to remaining data,” and “Finally” signal progression. The organisation is coherent, though the linking is somewhat formulaic and the city-by-city sequence can feel like a list rather than a comparison of the chart’s main patterns. Some connections could be made more explicit, such as comparing café attendance across the cities or grouping the lower fresh-coffee figures together. The overview also helps orient the reader, but stronger links between it and the selected details would make the progression more purposeful.

Lexical Resource: Band 6.0

You use an adequate range of task-related vocabulary, including “survey,” “preferred,” “recorded,” and “approximately,” and the main categories remain clear throughout. There are some imprecise or repetitive choices: “accounted for going to a cafe” and “accounted for fresh coffee” are not natural ways to describe survey proportions, while “people” and “visited/went to a cafe” recur frequently. “Cafe” is also written without the accent used elsewhere in standard spelling, though this does not affect understanding. To improve, use precise reporting collocations such as “the proportion of residents who visited a café” and vary verbs with “stood at,” “reached,” or “was recorded at.” The vocabulary communicates the data, but control of collocation and variety is not yet consistent.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 6.0

You use a mix of simple and more complex sentence forms, including comparisons with “whereas” and “compared to,” and most sentences communicate the intended figures clearly. Some grammatical errors remain. In the overview, “people preferred going to cafes … in last 4 weeks” needs an article or possessive construction, such as “visiting cafés in the last four weeks.” “People in Adelaide prefer” shifts into the present tense while the rest of the report describes survey results in the past; keep the tense consistent. The sentence beginning “A similar pattern is seen for people in Melbourne” also needs clearer punctuation or restructuring before the figures. These issues rarely obscure meaning, but more consistent tense, articles and sentence boundaries would improve accuracy.

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