Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Cambridge IELTS 16 · 2026-10-05

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

The charts below show the changes in ownership of electrical appliances and amount of time spent doing housework in households in one country between 1920 and 2019.

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

Percentage of households with electrical appliances (1920-2019)

Student answer (Band 6.0)

Th two bar charts iluustrts how owning house appliances effected doing housework in a single country from 1920 to 2019.

Overll, as the percentage of electric appliances including washing mashine, refrigerators and vaccum cleaners grew, number of hours work done in week doing household work fell significantly.

In 1920, None of the the home had refrigerator while only 30 and 40 pecent of houses vacuum cleaner and washing machine repectfuly. By 1940, refrigerantor had become widespred even overtaking vacuum cleaners at over 50 percent of house had them. In contrast washing machines saw inital rise until 1960 with 70 percent of houses using them, it saw minor fall in 1980 after that sales of wahing machine stabalized, ending at around 73 percent og home using it. Turning towards details regaring refrigerator and vacuum clearner thier consumtion rose sharply throughout the time peroid. Both of appliances showen an upward trend and reached 100 perecnt useage, first refrigerator in 1990 and then vaccium cleaner in 2000 and the trand remained same up until 2019.

Due to the use of these applainces the number of hours put in house work per week has gone down rapidly triughut the years. In 1920, 50 hours was put into washing, cleaning and cooking. By 1940 it was less then 40 hours, it further decrease to only approximatly 20 percent after that it saw a downward spiral until reaching a low of just around 10 percent in 2019.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 7.0

You successfully cover all parts of the prompt by presenting a clear overview of the main trends and selecting key data from both the electrical appliance chart and the housework hours chart. You report that appliance ownership generally increased while housework hours declined significantly, supporting your statements with specific figures such as the 100 percent saturation for refrigerators and vacuum cleaners by 2000. While you provide a clear progression and address all visual elements, your response tends to over-generalise or misread a few specific details, such as stating that no homes had a refrigerator in 1920 when the chart indicates 2 percent, and confusing hours with percentages in your final sentence. To achieve a higher band, ensure greater precision when extracting numerical data from the charts and avoid slight inaccuracies in data reporting.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.5

Your response demonstrates a coherent overall arrangement with a clear attempt to logically sequence information, starting with an introductory overview, moving into appliance ownership details, and finishing with housework hours. You make use of logical transitions like 'In 1920', 'By 1940', and 'In contrast' to guide the reader through the data. However, cohesion is sometimes faulty or mechanical, and referencing between sentences can be slightly confusing due to the dense clustering of clauses. Paragraphing is used adequately, but grouping related appliances more systematically would enhance the logical flow. To reach the next level, you need to employ cohesive devices more flexibly and ensure that referencing within and between paragraphs is consistently clear and unambiguous.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

Your vocabulary range is adequate for the task, allowing you to discuss data trends using terms like 'grew', 'rose sharply', and 'downward spiral'. However, your writing is heavily impacted by frequent spelling errors, such as 'Th', 'iluustrts', 'mashine', 'refrigerantor', 'widespred', 'stabalized', 'clearner', 'thier', 'peroid', 'showen', 'useage', 'vaccium', 'trand', 'applainces', 'house work', and 'triughut'. You also make noticeable word choice and word form errors, such as using 'consumtion' instead of 'ownership' or 'adoption' in this context. These lexical and spelling deficiencies mean your vocabulary sits at a basic and limited level. To improve, you must expand your control of spelling, refine your choice of task-specific vocabulary, and reduce the frequency of lexical slips.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You demonstrate a mix of simple and complex sentence forms, attempting multi-clause structures such as 'Overll, as the percentage of electric appliances... grew, number of hours work done in week doing household work fell significantly.' However, your writing contains frequent grammatical errors, including missing articles ('None of the the home had refrigerator', 'vacuum cleaner and washing machine repectfuly'), subject-verb agreement issues ('number of appliances showen'), and prepositional errors ('put in house work'). Furthermore, punctuation and sentence boundary issues occasionally disrupt the reading flow. These persistent errors place your grammatical control at a lower band level. To progress, you need to reduce the frequency of basic grammatical mistakes and exercise better control over article usage and subject-verb agreement in complex sentences.

See this exact question answered at other band scores. The same prompt compared across bands.

Browse more IELTS Writing model answers or get your own writing scored by the same AI examiner.