Band 6.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.5 · Cambridge IELTS 16 · 2026-11-11

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

Mrs Barrett, an English-speaking woman who lives in your town, has advertised for someone to help her in her home for a few hours a day next summer.

Write a letter to Mrs Barrett. In your letter

• suggest how you could help her in her home
• say why you would like to do this work
• explain when you will and will not be available

You do NOT need to write any addresses.

Begin your letter as follows:

Dear Mrs Barrett,

Student answer (Band 6.5)

Dear Mrs Barrett,

I came across an advertisement posted online regarding help required at your resident for next summer. I am looking for some extra work during that time and would be able to provide you with the aid you need. I can do house chores including gardening, help with laundry and basic repairs around the house.

Moreover, this would help me also in my academics as my course requires some kind of community service. This kind of job would help me pass my program. Also, there's a requirement of a report that needs to be submitted by you in order for me to complete my program.

In addition, I'll provide you my availability so it works for both of us. I do not have classes next summer but I do have some errands that I need to do during the week. I am available on weekends and mostly in the afternoons.

Lastly, I'll wait for your response as I also have to update my professor with the details of the service by end of this month.

Warm Regards

Parwinder

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.5

You address all three requested points: you offer help with “gardening,” laundry and repairs, explain that the work would support your community-service requirement, and give a general availability pattern. These relevant details meet the task well. The explanation of your motivation is clear, but the practical arrangements are less fully developed: “weekends and mostly in the afternoons” does not specify which days or hours, and you do not say when you are unavailable. The request for Mrs Barrett to submit a report is also important to your purpose, but could be phrased more tactfully and explained as a requirement. To strengthen the letter further, give precise times and days you cannot work, and make the request for a report polite and clear.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 7.0

The letter has a clear progression from your offer of help, to your reason for applying, to your availability and closing request. Paragraphing supports this sequence, and linking phrases such as “Moreover,” “In addition,” and “Lastly” make the stages easy to follow. The ideas are generally connected, though the repeated use of formal transitions makes the flow somewhat formulaic. The availability paragraph also combines your lack of classes, errands and working times without clearly distinguishing when you can and cannot work. A more direct sequence—specific available days and hours, followed by the times you are unavailable—would improve clarity. The closing could also connect more smoothly to the request for a response and report.

Lexical Resource: Band 6.0

Your vocabulary is adequate for the purpose, and you use relevant terms such as “gardening,” “laundry,” “basic repairs,” “community service” and “availability.” These make your offer and circumstances understandable. There are, however, some awkward or imprecise choices: “at your resident” does not express the intended place, while “provide you my availability” and “pass my program” are not natural collocations. “House chores” is understandable but less idiomatic than “household tasks.” The phrase “a report that needs to be submitted by you” is also unnecessarily indirect. Aim for natural, precise expressions suited to a polite letter, and check collocations as well as word forms.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 6.0

You use a mix of simple and more complex sentence forms, including the conditional “would be able to provide” and the relative clause in “a report that needs to be submitted.” Most sentences communicate your meaning, but some grammatical errors remain. For example, “I’ll provide you my availability” is missing “with” after “provide,” and “by end of this month” needs an article (“by the end of this month”). The sentence about errands and availability also joins several ideas in a way that makes the relationship between them less clear. Review prepositions and articles, and use sentence boundaries to separate your schedule from the explanation of your commitments. Greater accuracy across these patterns would make the letter more polished.

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