Band 7.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 7.0 · Cambridge IELTS 16 · 2026-11-02

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 proportional changes in ownership of three types of electrical apliances in a country from 1920 to 2019 and number of hours spent doing housework during that period.

Overall, the percentage of households with each types of electrical appliances increased over the period, while the amount of housework time decreased gradually.

In 1920, only a few households, around 4%, owned a refrigerator. This percentage is climbed to 90% in 1960 and peaked at 100% by 1980. The proportion remained stable at 100% for the next four decades. Similarly, the proportion of residents owning a washing machine was 40% in 1920, and it reached to 70% by 1960. Then it slightly fall to around 65% in 1980, from where it began to rise and reached a top 75% in 2019. The 30% percentage of residents owned a vacuum cleaner in 1920, and this proportion increased rapidly to 100% by 2000, remained there till 2019.

However, a different pattern emerged from the number of hours spent in housework. In 1920, a household worked almost 50 hours in a week. But this number was kept falling in the coming years and it decreased to 20 hours in a week by 1960. It further declined to around 15 hours in 1980 and stayed there for the next two decades before reached a minimum of approximately 12 hours in 2019.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 7.5

The response gives a clear overview of the main contrast: appliance ownership generally rose, while weekly housework hours fell. It also selects the key developments and supports them with relevant figures, including refrigerators reaching 100% by 1980 and vacuum cleaners doing so by 2000. Most reported values match the chart; the final housework figure is given as approximately 12 hours rather than 11, a small difference that does not alter the trend. The account is slightly broad in saying every appliance series increased, since washing-machine ownership dipped between 1960 and 1980, though this is then accurately described. To strengthen the report further, make the overview more comparative by highlighting that refrigerators and vacuum cleaners reached universal ownership, unlike washing machines.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 7.5

The information is organised clearly: an introduction is followed by an overview, then a paragraph on appliance ownership and one on housework. This creates a logical progression, and linking expressions such as “Similarly,” “However,” and “before” help signal comparisons and changes over time. The appliance paragraph also moves through the series in a sensible order. Some connections are a little mechanical, particularly the repeated use of “proportion” and “percentage,” and “However” suggests a stronger contrast than is needed when introducing the housework data. More precise transitions, such as “By contrast, housework hours…,” and clearer grouping of the two appliances that reached 100% would make the cohesion more flexible and the comparisons more prominent.

Lexical Resource: Band 7.0

There is a suitable range of trend vocabulary, including “peaked,” “remained stable,” “declined,” and “gradually,” and the meaning is consistently clear. The response also uses relevant terms such as “ownership” and “proportion.” However, some word choices and collocations are awkward or imprecise: “the 30% percentage of residents” is unnecessarily repetitive, while “reached a top” is less natural than a standard trend expression. “Apliances” is misspelled, and “residents owning” is less exact than referring to households, as the chart does. Greater control of concise, chart-specific phrasing would improve precision and naturalness. For example, use “the share of households” rather than repeatedly combining “percentage” and “proportion.”

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 6.5

The response attempts a useful mix of simple and complex sentences, including clauses with “while,” “before,” and “from where,” and most meanings remain easy to follow. However, several verb-form and agreement errors prevent consistently accurate control. Examples include “each types” instead of “each type,” “This percentage is climbed” instead of “climbed,” “it slightly fall” instead of “it fell,” and “before reached” instead of “before reaching” or “before it reached.” There are also awkward constructions such as “the number … was kept falling.” These errors occur in otherwise understandable sentences, so the account communicates its data, but proofreading verb forms and sentence patterns would make the complex structures more reliable.

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