Band 7.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 7.0 · Cambridge IELTS 16 · 2026-10-11

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 7.0)

The line charts illustrate the percentage of households with electrical appliances, namely washing machine, refrigerator and vacuum cleaner, and the amount of time spent doing housework in households in one country from 1920 to 2019.

Overall, the ownership of electrical appliances increased over the period, while the number of hours of housework per week decreased considerably.

To begin with, the percentage of households owning a refrigerator rose significantly from about 1% in 1920 to 100% by the end of 2000. The proportion of households with a vacuum cleaner also increased from 30% to 100% from 1920 to 2000, and then remained the same until 2019. Moreover, the figure for ownership of washing machine climbed from 40% in 1920 to 70% in 1960 and then dropped, afterward the percentage increased from around 65% to approximately 72%.

Moving on to the amount of time spent doing household chores, the number of hours of housework per week per household fell substantially. In 1920, the figure stood at 50 hours per week, which decreased and reached 20 hours in 1960. Furthermore, the number continued to fall and reached about 10 hours per week in 2019.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.5

You cover both charts and provide a clear overview: appliance ownership generally rose, whereas weekly housework declined. The main trends are supported with relevant figures, including the refrigerator’s rise from about 1% to full ownership and housework falling from 50 to around 10 hours. Some details, however, are incomplete or imprecise. The refrigerator reached 100% by 1980, not by the end of 2000, and the washing-machine figure rose again after its dip, reaching about 75% in 2019. The housework account omits the plateau at 15 hours between 1980 and 2000. More precise reporting of these turning points and the refrigerator’s earlier saturation would make the coverage more complete and better supported.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 7.0

The response is organised clearly into an introduction, an overview and two body sections, with a logical progression from appliance ownership to housework. Linking expressions such as “To begin with,” “Moreover,” and “Moving on” help signal the sequence, and the reader can follow the comparisons without difficulty. Some connections are a little mechanical, and “Furthermore” introduces a continuation that could be expressed more directly. The appliance paragraph also moves among three series without consistently highlighting their relative timing—for example, that refrigerators reached full ownership before vacuum cleaners. Grouping the appliance trends by their key milestones, then using concise comparisons, would make the progression more flexible and the relationships between figures clearer.

Lexical Resource: Band 7.0

You use a suitable range of task vocabulary, including “proportion,” “ownership,” “rose significantly,” “remained the same,” and “fell substantially.” These choices communicate the main trends clearly, and there is some useful variation in how increases and decreases are described. A few phrases are less precise or natural: “owning a refrigerator” could be expressed as “households with a refrigerator,” while “the percentage increased from around 65% to approximately 72%” would be clearer as a rise in the share of households with washing machines. “Amount of time spent doing household chores” is understandable but repetitive after the introduction. More exact trend language, such as “levelled off” and “recovered,” would help distinguish a plateau from a renewed increase.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 6.5

You use a mix of simple and complex sentence forms, including the relative clause in “which decreased and reached 20 hours” and the contrast in “while the number of hours … decreased considerably.” Most sentences are easy to understand, and tense use is generally appropriate for describing historical data. Some grammatical control is less secure: “owning a refrigerator” is awkwardly attached to “the percentage of households,” and “the percentage increased from around 65%” leaves the subject of the increase unclear. The sentence about the washing-machine trend also joins several stages in a way that makes the sequence harder to follow. Use clear subjects such as “the share of households with washing machines,” and separate the dip and subsequent rise into distinct clauses.

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