Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Cambridge IELTS 15 · 2026-10-16

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 line chart illustrates a 4 weeks survey's result of people buying coffee and tea and their drinking habitats in five cities of Austrailia including Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Hobart.

Overall, the data shows that four out of five cities residents went to a cafe for coffee or tea, where the people of Adelaide bougth an instant coffee a bit more than went to a cafe. The percentage of buying fresh is the lowest in all the cities. Buying an instant coffee is the middle ground of people of 4 cities, where Adelaide people bought the instant coffee more.

In Sydney, 61% residents went to a cafe, 46% bought an instant coffee and 44% bought the fresh coffee for drinking. Melbourne people are the most in Austrailia who went to a cafe for coffee with 64%, where 48% bought an instant coffee and 42% bought the fresh coffee. Brisbane's 34% people bougth the fresh coffee, 53% bought an instant one where 61% went to a cafe to drink coffee or tea.

Adelaide people drinks least coffee or tea in Austrailia as compare to 4 other cities with 50% of them bought an instant coffee, 49% went to a cafe and 34% bought a fresh coffee and its only city where instant coffee is more used than went to cafe to drink a coffee. 63% Hobart's residents went to a cafe, 54% bought an instant coffee makes it's highest among 5 cities and 38% bought a fresh coffee or tea.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.5

You cover all three survey categories and all five cities, and the overview identifies useful broad patterns: café visits are generally the most common activity, while fresh-coffee purchases are usually lower. Most figures are close to the chart, including the café highs in Melbourne and Hobart and Adelaide’s comparatively low café figure. However, some comparisons are inaccurate or unclear. The claim that fresh coffee is “the lowest in all the cities” is not true for Sydney, where instant coffee is slightly higher, and “four out of five cities” needs clearer qualification because Adelaide is the only city where café visits do not exceed instant-coffee purchases. Brisbane’s café figure is also reported as 61%, rather than about 56%. More precise overview statements and checking each comparison would strengthen an otherwise relevant response.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.5

The response has a recognisable structure: an introduction, an overview, and city-by-city detail. This makes the information broadly accessible, and the city paragraphs provide a sensible basis for comparison. However, progression is not consistently clear because the overview contains several ideas in one long sentence, and the body moves through cities without grouping the most important similarities or contrasts. Some linking is awkward or repetitive, particularly the repeated use of “where” to connect figures. References such as “the percentage of buying fresh” and “its highest” are also not always clear. Organise the overview around the main patterns, then compare cities using explicit links such as “by contrast” or “whereas” to make relationships easier to follow.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use enough topic vocabulary to report the chart, including “percentage,” “residents,” “bought,” and “went to a cafe.” There are also attempts at more varied phrasing, such as “middle ground,” but this is not a natural way to describe the middle-ranking category in a data report. Several word-choice and collocation problems reduce precision: “drinking habitats” does not convey habits, “people are the most” is unclear, and “fresh coffee or tea” confuses the chart’s fresh-coffee category with café drinks. Spelling errors such as “Austrailia,” “bougth,” and “cafe” (when the intended spelling is “café”) are noticeable. Aim for standard chart-reporting phrases and check spelling and category labels carefully.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You attempt both simple and more complex sentence forms, including clauses linked with “where” and the contrast “where Adelaide people bought…”. The main information is generally understandable, but some grammatical errors recur. For example, “61% residents” needs an article or possessive, “Adelaide people drinks” has subject–verb disagreement, and “as compare to” is not a correct comparative construction. The sentence beginning “63% Hobart’s residents…” also lacks a clear grammatical link between its clauses. These issues, alongside inconsistent sentence control, keep the writing from showing more reliable accuracy. Practise accurate percentage constructions (“61% of residents”) and check agreement, clause boundaries, and comparative forms when editing.

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