Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

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

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 demonstrates the outcome of a survery about purchasing and consuming habits across five different australian cities- Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Hobart, in a month.

Overall, in all cities except Adelaide, most people went to a cafe in order to drink bevarages in the last month. In contrast, buying fresh coffee accounted for the least proportion in all five cities. Adelaide had more people buying instant coffee.

Melbourne had the most percentage of people visitng a cafe, around 63% people visited a cafe, which is similar to the proportion in Hobart (approximately 62%). Sydney also had a similar figure ( around 61%). In contrast, percentages in Brisbane and Adelaide were lower, at 56% and 46%.

In contrast, figures for buying fresh coffee were much lower. Sydney accounted for the most percentage of people buying fresh coffee (around 43%). Subsequently, Melbourne showed a similar figure (around 42%). The figures for other cities were much lower. The proportion of people buying instant coffee were similar across all cities. However, in Adelaide, the figure for people buying instant coffee was higher than people going to a cafe.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0

You identify the main pattern that café visits were highest in most cities and that fresh coffee purchases were generally lower, and you support this with several relevant figures. The comparison between Adelaide’s café and instant-coffee results is also useful: instant coffee was slightly higher, at about 50% versus roughly 49.5%. However, the overview is not fully accurate: fresh coffee was not the least popular category in every city, since in Sydney it was marginally below instant coffee, while in Adelaide café visits were below instant coffee. The statement that instant-coffee figures were “similar across all cities” also overlooks the range from about 45.5% to 54.5%. A more complete overview and clearer comparisons across all three categories would strengthen the report.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.5

The response has a clear four-paragraph structure, moving from an introduction and overview to café visits and then coffee purchases. This gives the information a coherent overall arrangement, and comparisons such as Melbourne and Hobart’s similar café figures are easy to follow. You also use linking expressions, including “Overall,” “In contrast,” and “However.” At times, though, these links are repetitive or do not clearly signal the relationship: “In contrast” begins both the overview’s second point and the fresh-coffee paragraph, while “Subsequently” does not express a meaningful sequence between city figures. The final paragraph also shifts from fresh to instant coffee without fully developing the latter comparison. Use more precise transitions and group the data consistently by category.

Lexical Resource: Band 6.0

You use an adequate range of vocabulary for describing the chart, including “proportion,” “accounted for,” “figures,” and “approximately.” These choices help communicate comparisons, and the meaning remains clear despite some inaccuracies. However, several expressions are awkward or imprecise, such as “most percentage of people,” “visitng a cafe,” and “drink bevarages”; “purchasing and consuming habits” also suggests the chart measures consumption, whereas it reports purchases and café visits. There are spelling errors in “survery,” “australian,” “bevarages,” and “visitng.” Aim for standard chart language and check spelling carefully. For example, “the percentage of residents who visited a café” is more natural and precise than “most percentage of people visitng a cafe.”

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 6.0

You use a mix of simple and more complex sentence forms, including the contrast structure “In contrast, buying fresh coffee accounted for…” and the clause “in all cities except Adelaide.” Most sentences communicate the intended comparisons, but some grammatical errors remain. In “Melbourne had the most percentage of people visitng a cafe,” the construction is not well formed; use “Melbourne had the highest proportion of residents who visited a café.” The phrase “around 63% people” needs “of,” and “The proportion … were similar” has a subject–verb agreement error because “proportion” is singular. There are also punctuation and spacing slips, such as the space after the opening parenthesis in “( around 61%).” Review agreement, percentage constructions, and sentence phrasing while retaining your attempts at complex structures.

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