Band 6.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.5 · Cambridge IELTS 15 · 2026-10-07

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

The graph below shows the number of tourists visiting a particular Caribbean island between 2010 and 2017.

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

Student answer (Band 6.5)

The line graph depicts how many toursits visited a particular Carebbean island from 2010 to 2017.

Overall, it can be seen that visitors staying on island was higher in the initial year than visitors staying on cruise ships. However, tourists staying on cruise ship increased than another group in the last year.

Looking at the graph in more details, around 0.7 million visitors stayed on island in 2010, which remained stable till 2011. Moreover, number of tourists staying on island stood at 1.2 million, whereas it witnessed a continuous incline to 1.5 million in 2013 and remained plateau for the next two years. Although the number of tourists staying on island saw a marginal decline to 1.2 million in 2016, it again reached to 1.5 million in 2017.

Moving to the next, visitors staying on cruise ships were 0.3 million in 2010, after which it saw a swift incline to 0.5 in 2011 before declining minimally by 0.2 million visitors in 2012. Nevertheless, this figure followed an upward trend throughout the period of 5 years.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0

You identify the main comparison at the start and report several accurate figures for visitors staying on the island, including the rise to about 1.5 million and the later dip and recovery. However, the overview is incomplete: it does not summarise the overall growth in total visitors, which rose from about 1 million to 3.5 million, or the cruise-ship group’s strong rise to 2 million. The final paragraph also stops before reporting the later cruise-ship figures, and the claim that this group increased “throughout” is imprecise because it fell in 2012. The response addresses the chart, but the two series are not covered equally fully. Include the total trend and complete the key comparisons.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 7.0

The response has a clear paragraph structure: an introduction, an overview, and separate detail paragraphs for the two visitor groups. Its progression is generally easy to follow, and linking expressions such as “Moreover,” “Although,” and “Nevertheless” help signal additions and contrasts. The island-stay figures are presented in chronological order, which supports clarity. However, the cruise-ship paragraph ends with a broad statement rather than continuing through the later years, leaving the account unbalanced and its progression incomplete. Some transitions, such as “Moving to the next,” are also less natural and do not clearly identify the next data series. Use a direct transition and organise both series through to 2017, with the total trend included where it best supports the overview.

Lexical Resource: Band 6.0

You use a reasonable range of trend vocabulary, including “remained stable,” “continuous incline,” “marginal decline,” and “upward trend,” so the main changes are usually understandable. There are, however, several spelling and word-choice problems, such as “toursits” and “Carebbean,” and some collocations are awkward: “increased than another group” and “remained plateau” do not express the intended comparisons naturally. “Swift incline” is also an imprecise pairing for a gradual rise. These inaccuracies do not prevent the reader from understanding the chart, but they limit precision. Check spelling carefully and choose standard chart language, for example “rose more sharply than,” “levelled off,” and “increased steadily.”

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 6.0

The response includes both simple statements and longer complex sentences, for example the sentence beginning “Although the number of tourists…” and the sentence describing the 2010 island figure. Most meanings remain clear, but some grammatical errors recur. In “visitors staying on island was higher,” the plural subject requires “were,” and the article is missing before “the island.” The comparison “tourists staying on cruise ship increased than another group” has an incorrect comparative structure; use “increased more than the other group.” There are also missing articles in phrases such as “number of tourists” and an awkward tense pattern in “it again reached to 1.5 million.” More consistent control of agreement, articles, and comparative constructions would improve accuracy while retaining the sentence variety already attempted.

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