Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Cambridge IELTS 16 · 2026-10-05

IELTS Writing Task 2 question

In some countries, more and more people are becoming interested in finding out about the history of the house or building they live in.

What are the reasons for this?

How can people research this?

Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

Student answer (Band 6.0)

People now a days are becming more curious about the history of the place they call home. Few of the resaons could be personal conection or the historical significance of place they live in. People can know more about history of thier homes is by doing research on internet and going through local archives, museums that might have more information about thier residence.

Some people have peronal coneection to thier homes, so they are naurally curious to know about who lived there before and how it was build and the overall story behind the place. Sometimes people also live in historically significant places. A castle, temple or an old mansion might be in the place they live now, this also make people more intrested to know about their homes and residences. For example, city of Lahore was made on the ruins of muhanjodaro civilization and many of my friends found runis in thier backyard after some digging.

People can find about the histroy by numerous ways, one of the easiest and most convinent way is to go on the internet and find information about the place they live in. They can go through historical databases old aritcals and picture of the area. This might be helpful but somtimes there minimal ammount of data about majority of places. An alternative and better way should be to go to a local museum or archives, many the museum have local archives and history of people that have lived there before. Though this you can get much deeper understaing of the history and people that use to live in those places. For example, A friend of mine found out that the house in which he lived was once occupied by a fomous 19th centuary politican and was named after him. It was sold to his grandsparents in 1940.

In conculution, People are becoming more and more intrested in to know about history of thier homes due to perosnal connection to the space and there historical significance. They can learn more about there residence by interent and visiting local museums.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.5

The response successfully addresses all parts of the prompt by explaining both the reasons behind people's interest in their home's history and the methods used to research it, showing features of the higher band. Ideas such as personal connections and historical significance are presented alongside research avenues like the internet and local archives. However, some parts of the response are more fully developed than others, which keeps the score at this level. For instance, the discussion on research methods is supported by examples like checking online databases and visiting museums, whereas the historical significance point relies heavily on a generalisation about Lahore and ruins in backyards rather than deeper elaboration. To reach the next level, all main ideas would need to be equally extended and supported throughout the essay.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.5

The essay presents a coherent overall arrangement with a clear staging of ideas across introduction, body paragraphs, and a conclusion, successfully meeting the core requirements of this level and hinting at better organisational traits. Paragraphing is used appropriately to separate reasons from research methods. Cohesive devices are employed to link ideas, such as using 'For example' and 'An alternative and better way should be to', which aids progression. Nevertheless, cohesion is occasionally mechanical or faulty, and referencing is not always completely clear, such as in the abrupt transitions between sentences in the second body paragraph. To improve further, the writer needs to ensure smoother logical bridges between sentences and a more flexible, less repetitive use of cohesive markers.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

The vocabulary used is adequate for the task, successfully communicating the main points despite notable limitations in range. The writer attempts some less common vocabulary such as 'historically significant', 'archives', and 'politician', but these are accompanied by frequent spelling and word-choice errors, such as 'becming', 'resaons', 'conection', 'naurally', 'aritcals', 'ammount', and 'fomous'. These lexical inaccuracies and spelling slips do not severely impede overall communication, but they restrict the precision and flexibility of the language. To achieve a higher score, the student must expand their range of vocabulary, improve spelling accuracy, and demonstrate better control over word choices and collocations.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

The writer demonstrates a mix of simple and complex sentence forms, attempting structures like conditional and relative clauses ('museums that might have more information', 'the house in which he lived'). There are some errors in grammar and punctuation, including missing articles ('city of Lahore', 'on internet'), incorrect preposition use ('in to know about history'), and occasional subject-verb agreement issues ('many the museum have'). Fortunately, these errors rarely impede communication, and the meaning of sentences usually remains clear. To progress to the next level, the writer needs to produce a higher frequency of error-free complex sentences and exercise tighter control over articles, plurals, and basic grammatical patterns.

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