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IELTS Academic Writing Task 1 Practice Item Writer: Chart, Table, Process, and Map Prompts With Consistent Data, a 150 Word Task, a Band 7 to 8 Model Answer With an Overview, and Examiner Style Notes on the Four Criteria
Create unofficial IELTS Academic Writing Task 1 practice items for students: a bar chart, line graph, table, process, or map task whose numbers add up, the standard 20 minute and at least 150 word instructions, a model answer at about band 7 to 8 with a clear overview, and teacher notes against Task Achievement, Coherence and Cohesion, Lexical Resource, and Grammatical Range and Accuracy.
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Prompt
Act as an IELTS writing teacher and test prep materials writer who has prepared students for the Academic module for years, and who knows the most common Task 1 mistakes: no overview, listing every number, describing causes that the chart does not show, and running out of time. Inputs: - Visual type: bar chart, line graph, pie charts, table, mixed chart, process diagram, or before and after map: [VisualType] - Topic and setting, using a fictional or clearly generic place unless real data is supplied with its source: [TopicSetting] - Student level now and target band: [StudentLevel] - Number of items and whether each needs a model answer: [ItemCount] - Teaching focus for this set, such as overview sentences, comparison language, grouping data, or passive voice for processes: [TeachingFocus] - Real data to use, with source, if any: [DataSource] - Output format: [Format] Generate: 1. The data first: a table of every value the visual will show, with units and years or stages. Check it: percentages that should total 100 do, trends have at least one clear contrast, and no value is ambiguous to read. 2. A description of the visual a teacher can draw or build in a spreadsheet: chart type, axis labels, legend, title, and colors or patterns. For maps and processes, list every labeled feature or stage in order. 3. The task wording in the usual Task 1 style: one sentence describing the visual, then the instruction to summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and making comparisons where relevant, then write at least 150 words, with a 20 minute time guide. 4. A model answer of about 160 to 190 words at around band 7 to 8: a paraphrased introduction, an overview of two or three main trends with no numbers, then two body paragraphs that group data logically and cite selected figures accurately. 5. Examiner style teacher notes for each of the four public criteria: Task Achievement (overview, key features, accuracy), Coherence and Cohesion (paragraphing, referencing, linking without overuse), Lexical Resource (trend and comparison vocabulary, paraphrase), and Grammatical Range and Accuracy (complex sentences, tense control). Quote phrases from the model answer as evidence. 6. Three common lower band versions of one sentence from the model with what is wrong in each, tied to TeachingFocus. 7. A data accuracy check list mapping every number in the model answer back to the data table. 8. A student self check list of five yes or no questions to use before time runs out. Constraints: - Label everything as unofficial practice material. Do not claim to be official IELTS, Cambridge, IDP, or British Council content, and do not guarantee a band score. - Invented data must use a fictional or generic setting. No em dashes. British spelling in the task and model answer.
Instructions
Replace every [bracket] with your details before running. Works on ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.
Generated Output
This image was generated using the prompt above.
Examples
Example Input
VisualType: bar chart, two years compared TopicSetting: how commuters travel to work in a fictional city, Westbridge, 2005 and 2025 StudentLevel: currently band 6, target band 7 ItemCount: 1 item with model answer TeachingFocus: writing an overview with no numbers and grouping rising and falling categories DataSource: none, invent consistent data Format: data table, visual spec, task, model, notes, weak versions, accuracy check, self check
Example Output
UNOFFICIAL PRACTICE ITEM
Data table: main mode of travel to work, Westbridge, percent of commuters
| Mode | 2005 | 2025 |
| Car | 52 | 38 |
| Bus | 21 | 24 |
| Bicycle | 7 | 19 |
| Walking | 20 | 19 |
| Total | 100 | 100 |
Check: both years total 100; clear contrast (car falls, bicycle rises); walking nearly flat.
Visual spec: grouped vertical bar chart. Title: Main mode of travel to work in Westbridge, 2005 and 2025. X axis: Car, Bus, Bicycle, Walking. Y axis: Percentage of commuters, 0 to 60 in steps of 10. Legend: dark bars 2005, light bars 2025.
Task
You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.
The chart below shows the main ways in which commuters travelled to work in the city of Westbridge in 2005 and 2025.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
Write at least 150 words.
Model answer (169 words)
The bar chart compares the proportions of commuters in Westbridge who used four different means of transport to get to work in 2005 and 2025.
Overall, the car remained the most common way to commute, although its share fell considerably. By contrast, cycling grew markedly over the period, while the figures for walking and taking the bus changed relatively little.
In 2005, more than half of all commuters (52%) drove to work, which was well over twice the proportion who took the bus (21%) or walked (20%). By 2025, however, the share of drivers had dropped by 14 percentage points to 38%.
Cycling saw the most dramatic change. Only 7% of workers travelled by bicycle in 2005, but this figure almost tripled to 19% two decades later, matching the proportion of people who walked. Bus use, meanwhile, rose slightly from 21% to 24%, and walking dipped marginally by one point.
As a result, the gap between car use and other modes narrowed significantly by the end of the period.
Teacher notes (unofficial, against the public band descriptor criteria)
- Task Achievement: clear overview with no numbers ("Overall, the car remained..."); key features selected, not every number listed; all figures accurate.
- Coherence and Cohesion: one idea per paragraph; referencing with "this figure" and "its share"; linkers varied but not stacked ("By contrast", "meanwhile").
- Lexical Resource: trend language ("fell considerably", "almost tripled", "dipped marginally"); paraphrase of the task ("means of transport").
- Grammatical Range and Accuracy: past perfect ("had dropped"), relative clause ("which was well over twice"), comparative structures; consistent past tense.
Weaker versions of the overview sentence
1. "In 2005 car was 52% and in 2025 was 38%." Numbers in the overview, missing articles and subject.
2. "Overall, people prefer bicycles because it is healthy." Gives a reason the chart does not show.
3. "Firstly, secondly, thirdly, the car, the bus and the bicycle changed." Mechanical linking, no main trend.
Accuracy check
52, 38, 14 points (52 minus 38), 21, 24, 20, 19, 7, almost tripled (7 to 19), one point (20 to 19): all match the table.
Self check
1. Did I write an overview with no numbers?
2. Did I group data instead of listing it?
3. Is every number correct?
4. Did I avoid giving reasons?
5. Do I have at least 150 words?