Band 6.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.5 · 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 6.5)

The bar chart compares the result of a survey on residents in five different Australian cities, their purchase and consumption habits of coffee and tea. The unit of measurement is percentage.

Overall, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Hobart had the highest percentage of people that went to cafe to get coffee and tea in the last four week, while the proportion of people that bought fresh coffee in the last four weeks are significantly lower than those that bought instant coffee in all five cities.

About 64% to 61% of city residents visited the cafe for coffee and tea in Melbourne, Hobart and Sydney making cafes in these cities the most visited compared to Brisbane with 55% of residents that went cafes and Adelaide with the lowest percentage of people that went cafe for coffee and tea in that last four weeks with 44% of people.

The proportion of people that brought fresh coffee last month in Adelaide and Brisbane is about 15% less than the residents that bought from Sydney and Melbourne with 43% and 42% of residents that bought fresh coffee. In contrast with those that bought instant coffee in the last month 54% of Hobart resident bought instant coffee, while between 54% to 46% of residents in the other four in Australian bought instant coffee in the last month.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0

You identify the chart’s subject and report several relevant comparisons, including the high café-attendance figures in Melbourne, Hobart and Sydney and the lower fresh-coffee figures in Brisbane and Adelaide. The overview also correctly notes that instant coffee purchases exceed fresh coffee purchases in every city. However, some details are inaccurate or unclear: Adelaide’s café figure is about 50%, not 44%, and the claim that fresh-coffee purchases in Adelaide and Brisbane are about 15% below Sydney and Melbourne is too broad; the gaps vary, and Brisbane and Adelaide are both around 35%. The café overview also omits Adelaide’s position as the lowest. More precise comparisons and a clearer summary of the main highs and lows would make the report more complete.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.5

The response has a clear overall structure: an introduction, an overview, and two paragraphs presenting details. The information generally progresses from café visits to coffee purchases, and linking phrases such as “Overall” and “In contrast” help signal the relationships between points. This gives the report a coherent arrangement. Some connections are less clear, however: the long café sentence combines three leading cities with Brisbane and Adelaide, making the comparison harder to follow, while “In contrast with those that bought instant coffee” does not clearly connect to the preceding fresh-coffee comparison. Grouping the figures by category and using more direct comparison language would improve cohesion and make the progression more consistently easy to follow.

Lexical Resource: Band 6.5

You use an adequate range of task-related vocabulary, including “proportion,” “residents,” “visited,” and “in contrast,” and the meaning is generally clear. There is some variation in how you describe the data rather than relying only on “people.” However, several choices are imprecise or unnatural for this chart: “purchase and consumption habits” suggests the chart measures consumption, although it reports purchases and café visits; “brought fresh coffee” is the wrong word for buying; and “went cafes” is not a natural collocation. Repetition of “people” and “percentage” also limits flexibility. Choose precise verbs such as “purchased” and “visited,” and use expressions such as “the proportion of residents” to describe the figures more naturally.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 6.0

You attempt both simple and more complex sentence forms, including the overview sentence with “while” and the comparison beginning “In contrast.” Most of the intended meaning remains understandable, but some grammatical errors recur. For example, “the proportion … are significantly lower” has subject–verb disagreement, and “the proportion … in Adelaide and Brisbane is” does not agree with the plural subject. There are also errors in articles and number, as in “went to cafe” and “in the last four week,” and the final sentence has an incomplete comparison structure. Review agreement, articles and plural endings, and break up long sentences when needed. More consistent control of these forms would make the comparisons clearer.

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