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 am writing in response to your advertisement regarding assistance in your home for upcoming summer. i would love to help you with my support and work for your household chores.

I can assist you with a variety of household works, like helping with general cleaning, laundary, backyard cleaning, preparing meals and other local works. If you have a garden, I am good with maintaning and nuturing plants with regular watering them and provide up to date fertilizer.

I am wiling to do this work because I like to help people aspecialy to those with old age so that I can be more available and get a chance to meet more and more new people.It would be a great chance to get to know each other as neighbours.

Regarding my availability, I will be free to work Monday to Friday during the mornings (7:00 AM to 11:00 AM) during the summer vacation.However I will not be working on weekends or nor by the end of the summer vacation. I also have a trip planned during the end of the June as I am commited to a family trip.

Thank you for considering my application. I am looking forward to your response.

Yours, sincerely,

Shruti Patel

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 7.0

You address all three requirements clearly: you offer cleaning, laundry, meal preparation and garden care; explain that you enjoy helping older people and meeting neighbours; and give weekday morning hours, weekend limits and a family-trip exception. The letter also maintains a suitable, polite purpose and closes appropriately. Your reasons for wanting the work are relevant, though the point about helping older people could be developed with a little more detail, and the availability information would be clearer if you gave exact dates for the trip and when your summer availability ends. Overall, the main ideas are extended sufficiently, but a few details remain general.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 7.0

The letter has a clear progression from your application, to the help you can offer, your motivation, and your availability. Separate paragraphs make each part easy to locate, and phrases such as “Regarding my availability” guide the reader effectively. The closing is also appropriate for a formal letter. Some connections could be smoother: the garden-care sentence adds several tasks in one sequence, while the final availability paragraph combines regular hours, weekend limits and a trip without clearly distinguishing the dates. Use clearer transitions or separate the regular schedule from the temporary exception. Overall, organisation is logical and easy to follow, with some room to make links less list-like.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use a relevant range of vocabulary for household assistance, including “general cleaning,” “preparing meals,” “maintaining” plants and “family trip.” However, several spelling errors and unnatural combinations reduce precision: “laundary,” “wiling,” “aspecialy,” and “commited” should be corrected, while “household works” and “provide up to date fertilizer” are not natural expressions. “Local works” is also unclear in this context. These choices do not prevent the reader from understanding your main message, but they make the letter less fluent and polished. Aim for accurate, natural collocations and check spelling carefully, especially in words central to your offer.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 6.0

You use a mix of simple and more developed sentence forms, including conditional phrasing (“If you have a garden”) and a reason clause (“because I like to help people”). Most ideas remain understandable, but some grammatical and punctuation errors are present. For example, “regular watering them and provide” does not maintain a parallel structure; “I also have a trip planned during the end of the June” has awkward article and preposition use; and “I will not be working on weekends or nor by the end” is not correctly formed. Capitalise “I” consistently, and add spaces after full stops. Revising these patterns would improve accuracy while preserving your clear message.

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