The table below provides information on rental charges and salaries in three areas of London.
Sample Response
The illustration outlines weekly house rents in three areas in London and the annual salaries requiredwage recommendation to afford those propertiesaccommodations. As is obvious, the more bedrooms a property has, the higher the rentmore the room number in a house, more the rent and renting property in Notting Hill is the most expensiveproperty renting in Notting Hill is expensive. As is presented in the table, Notting Hill’s house rent is the highest among the three given areas where a one-bedroom propertya single bedroom house is rented forusually rented at 375 pounds per week. It is advised that someone should earn £98,500over 98 thousand pounds in a year to afford a one-bedroom propertysuch a living place in Notting Hill. A two-bedroom propertyTwo-bedroom property in this area would cost £485, while£485 while it would be as high as £738 for a three-bedroom apartment. The renter’s yearly wage should be £127,500 and £194,000 respectivelyhigher than 127 thousand and 190 thousand respectively to afford two and three-bedroom apartments. Rent in Regent’s ParkHouse rent at Regent’s Park is higher than that of Fulham but lower than the rent in Notting Hill. House with one, two and three bedrooms in Regent’s Park would cost 325, 450 and 650 pounds respectivelyconsecutively and to rent a house in this area someone needs an annual salary between £85,500 and £170,500between 85 thousand and 170 pounds. Rent in Fulham is the cheapestHouse rent is in Fulham is cheapest, 215 for one and 600 for three-bedroom property and someone needs to have an annual salarya yearly earning of over 157 thousand pounds to afford a three-bedroom apartmentthree bedroom apartment and at least £56,500not less than 56,500 pounds to live in a one-bedroom flat.
Why this response received Band 6.5
The report identifies the two central patterns accurately: larger properties cost more, and Notting Hill is consistently the most expensive area while Fulham is the cheapest. It supports these trends with mostly correct rents and salary requirements, but omits some useful comparisons and once gives Regent's Park's upper salary without the thousands unit. Prioritise systematic, error-checked comparisons across all three areas and property sizes.
IELTS Writing Criteria Scores
Task Achievement
A clear overview and mostly accurate key figures address the task well, though selection is incomplete and one salary unit is misstated.
Include the omitted Fulham two-bedroom comparison and report Regent's Park's salary range accurately as £85,500 to £170,500.
Coherence and Cohesion
The report progresses logically from Notting Hill through Regent's Park to Fulham, but one-block presentation and dense sentences limit readability.
Use an overview paragraph followed by separate detail paragraphs comparing rents and required salaries across the three areas.
Lexical Resource
A sufficient range of housing and comparison vocabulary is used, although repetition and several awkward collocations reduce naturalness.
Use concise terms such as weekly rent, annual salary required, one-bedroom property, and the least expensive area consistently.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy
The response attempts varied comparison structures, but article, agreement, word-order, and sentence-construction errors recur while meaning stays clear.
Practise parallel comparisons and correct forms such as the more bedrooms a property has, the higher the rent and rents in Fulham are the lowest.
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IELTS Academic Writing Task 1
The table below provides information on rental charges and salaries in three areas of London.
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