Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Cambridge IELTS 15 · 2026-10-05

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

The chart below shows what Anthropology graduates from one university did after finishing their undergraduate degree course. The table shows the salaries of the anthropologists in work after five years.

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

Student answer (Band 6.0)

the two charts illustrate the profession choosen by anthropy graduates from a university after completing their bachelors degree and their salaries after completing five years of work.

Overall, As it is clear seen that majority of the students prefered to work as a full time employee while very few of them choses to continue their work as a partime worker with the additional postgraduate studies. Additionally, after spending half a decade as anthropologist, government sector provided the most amount of salaries. Professionals who persue as a freelance consultants was on the 2nd in the list.

First of all, 52% of the students decided to chose a full time work , while only 15% of them chooses to work as a part time worker. 12% fresh graduates were unemployed while 8% of them decided to persue their master degree. Similarly 8% were unknow and remaining chooses to work as a part time employee with continuing their next degree.

On the other hand, 50% of the employees are getting more than $100,00 in government sector after completing 5 years of work. 40 percent of profeesionals were earning more than $100,000, But the private companies were giving low salaries as compared to others as only 30% employees were crossing $100,000

In conclusion, Most of the graduates prefer to work as full time workers and governement employees are receiving more salaries after their 5 years of completion.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0

The response addresses all parts of the task by reporting the main features from both the pie chart and the table, establishing a clear overview. However, some aspects are handled more fully than others, and certain details are under-developed or inaccurately reported. For instance, the writer correctly highlights that 52% of graduates entered full-time work, but misreports the salary data for the government sector by claiming that 50% earned more than $100,000 when the chart indicates this was the highest bracket. Key comparisons between categories, such as the salary distribution across employment types, are only partially explored, resulting in a somewhat limited overview of the visual data.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.5

The response achieves a coherent overall arrangement and shows a clear attempt to structure the information logically into an introduction, overview, body paragraphs, and a conclusion. Paragraphing is used appropriately to separate the two different visual prompts. However, cohesion is sometimes faulty or mechanical, with transitional phrases like 'First of all,' and 'On the other hand,' feeling slightly repetitive or unnatural for an academic report. Additionally, referencing is occasionally unclear, such as pronoun use and linking words between sentences, which prevents the essay from reaching a fully smooth logical progression throughout.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

The student uses an adequate range of vocabulary for the task, attempting less-common terms related to data reporting and employment fields such as 'freelance consultants', 'government sector', and 'postgraduate studies'. However, there are noticeable spelling and word-choice errors that detract from precision, such as 'choosen', 'anthropy', 'profeesionals', and 'persue'. While these errors do not severely impede communication, they reflect a limited control over word forms and spelling that keeps the lexical score constrained.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

The response demonstrates a mix of simple and complex sentence forms, attempting comparative structures and relative clauses. There are, however, frequent errors in grammar and punctuation. Issues appear in subject-verb agreement and verb forms, such as 'majority of the students prefered', 'very few of them choses', and 'remain chooses to work'. Furthermore, article usage and prepositions within grammatical patterns are occasionally missing or incorrect, such as 'in government sector' and 'most amount of salaries'. These errors require some effort from the reader to interpret, though they rarely obscure the overall meaning completely.

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