Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Cambridge IELTS 14 · 2026-10-08

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

You recently did a short cookery course. The cookery school has asked for your feedback on this course. Write a letter to the course director at the cookery school. In your letter

• describe what you enjoyed about the course
• say how much cooking you've done since the course
• suggest another cookery course you’d like the school to offer

You do NOT need to write any addresses.

Begin your letter as follows:

Dear Sir or Madam,

Student answer (Band 6.0)

Dear Sir or Madam,

I am writing to express my feedback about the cookery course which I took a last month. I had a lot of fun while learning cooking. As from all of the classes the most I enjoyed working on how to cook a pasta. The sauces used in pasta comes in several flavours like white sauce, red sauce and pink sauce which I never knew.

After finishing the course, I cooked variety of pastas' at home. I made two or three time white sauce pasta, even my family memebers loved it. In addition, I tried the other dishes too like sandwiches, salads and wraps only once. I would like to take another cookery course if school is willing to offer. In another course I would like learn more about the refreshing drinks which people can drink with their food.

I look forward to hearing from you if you host any other cookery course.

Yours faithfully,

David Moffat

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.5

You address all three points: you describe enjoying the pasta lessons and learning about different sauces, explain that you have cooked pasta several times and tried other dishes, and request a course on drinks. The examples make the feedback relevant and clear. The first point is the most developed, while the amount of cooking since the course is somewhat brief and could be made more specific—for example, you could describe when you cooked these dishes or how your skills have changed. The proposed drinks course is understandable, but explaining what kinds of drinks or techniques you want to learn would make the suggestion more fully supported. The letter’s purpose and polite closing are appropriate; further development would make the response more complete and persuasive.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.5

The letter has a clear overall arrangement: it opens with its purpose, moves from course enjoyment to cooking afterwards and a future course suggestion, then closes politely. Paragraphing helps distinguish these stages, and connectors such as “After finishing the course” and “In addition” guide the reader. Some links are less smooth or precise, however. “As from all of the classes” makes the transition into your favourite activity awkward, and “In another course” repeats the idea of a course without clearly linking the requested topic to the previous sentence. The list of dishes also feels slightly abrupt. Use more natural transitions and clearer references between ideas to make the progression more fluent and less mechanical.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use enough vocabulary to communicate the main points, including relevant food terms such as “white sauce,” “salads,” “wraps,” and “refreshing drinks.” The range is adequate for this familiar topic, but several noticeable word-choice, collocation, and spelling problems reduce naturalness. For example, “express my feedback” is less idiomatic than “provide feedback,” and “a variety of pastas” is not the natural way to describe the dishes you made. “Memebers” is also misspelled, while “flavours” is a suitable and accurate choice. To move beyond this level, build a wider set of natural phrases for describing cooking experiences and course content, and check spelling and plural forms carefully.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

Your letter includes both simple statements and some attempts at more developed sentences, and the meaning is generally understandable. However, errors in articles, verb forms, agreement, and sentence construction remain noticeable. In “which I took a last month,” the article is unnecessary; “how to cook a pasta” needs a different article or plural form; and “The sauces … comes” has a subject–verb agreement error. The sentence beginning “As from all of the classes” is also structurally awkward, while “I would like learn” is missing “to.” These issues do not prevent the reader from following your message, but they limit accuracy. Practise checking each sentence for a clear subject and verb, and vary sentence patterns while keeping them controlled.

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