Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Cambridge IELTS 16 · 2026-11-02

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

Your friend has been offered a place on a course at the university where you studied. He/She would like your advice about finding a place to live.

Write an email to your friend. In your email

• describe where you lived when you were a student at the university
• recommend the best way for him/her to look for accommodation
• warn him/her of mistakes students make when choosing accommodation

You do NOT need to write any addresses.

Begin your email as follows:

Dear ..........,

Student answer (Band 6.0)

Dear Sam,

Hi, how're you? I hope you're fine. I am penning this epistle in response to suggestion you want from me regarding accommodation near the university.

When I studied in the same university which you selected for pursuing your couse, I found a room near the university with the help of my classmate. It is on Ajit road and stone's throw away from the university. It was a private room in a house, helped me to focus on my studies without any disturbance.

As you want a rental place to live in, I can share my previous landlord's number to you. Alternatively, you can search on Online Website called Kijiji, which helps to find the room in a suitable price and in best locations.

While choosing the accommodation , check everything like furniture, appliances is in good condition so that you can't face any issue. I think Ajit road will'be good location to choose a room as most students live there and you can make friends also.

I hope my advice will help you.

Yours lovingly,

Aman

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0

You address all three points: you describe a private room near the university, offer to share your former landlord’s number and suggest Kijiji, and advise checking the furniture and appliances. These details make the email relevant and give your friend practical options. However, the warning is only partly developed: checking that items work is useful, but you do not explain other common mistakes, such as failing to inspect the property, clarify bills, or read a rental agreement. The recommendation could also be more decisive about which search method is best and why. Developing these points with a little more explanation would make the advice more complete and persuasive.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.5

The email has a clear overall sequence: greeting and purpose, your own housing experience, recommendations, a warning, and a closing. Paragraph breaks help the reader follow these stages, and links such as “Alternatively” and “While choosing” show how the ideas relate. This meets the task’s need for coherent organisation. Some connections are less smooth, however: the sentence about the room being a “stone’s throw away” is followed by a fragment-like description of its benefits, and the final recommendation to choose Ajit Road repeats information from the earlier paragraph. To show more flexible progression, connect the room details in complete sentences and make the warning a distinct, more developed piece of advice.

Lexical Resource: Band 6.0

You use enough vocabulary to communicate the accommodation advice, including “private room,” “landlord,” “appliances,” and “suitable price.” There are also attempts at less common or expressive language, such as “penning this epistle” and “stone’s throw away.” However, some choices are unnatural for a friendly email: “epistle” sounds overly formal, and “in a suitable price” is not the natural collocation. “Online Website” is also unnecessarily capitalised and vague. Spelling slips such as “couse” reduce accuracy. Aim for natural, precise wording suited to writing to a friend, and check spelling and common word combinations before submitting.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 6.0

You use a mix of simple sentences and more developed structures, including “As you want a rental place to live in, I can share…” and the clause beginning “so that…”. The main message remains clear, but some grammatical errors occur. For example, “in response to suggestion you want” needs an article and a more complete construction, while “It was a private room in a house, helped me…” joins clauses incorrectly. In “check everything like furniture, appliances is in good condition,” the list and verb do not agree, and “you can’t face any issue” uses an unsuitable negative construction for the intended meaning. Review articles, clause boundaries, and subject–verb agreement to improve control.

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