Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.0 · Cambridge IELTS 16 · 2026-10-14

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 5.0)

There is significant amount of individuals are becoming showed their fascination in the history of residence they step in across several nations. from my perspective, I am totally team up with the those who are feel concerned about their living place.

Fist and foremost, the house or building where people live with their family, is become a crucial ptart of their nature and living environment. Since human are borned with curisity, it is autonomusly coming out to know about the residence, such as when and who built this or what type of people are they going to share their day. However, many of the people try to know more into any histrocial incident or anything related to the house. That captive their attention.

To account their empathethic interest into house and building, they try to follow some general steps particullarly,

1. Talk directly with the landlord, if the place is rented, leased, or owned about the histroy of people priorly lived here.

2. Interect with the locals meticulously who already live in the society.

3. Walk throw the market or any public places to observe the environment.

4. The most intrgule part, search in the internet about previous history or knowledge.

5. Questioning to town hall or authorized people.

To enlight this arguement, I precisely have an exprience tha occured to me 5 years back. When i was in school, my family decide to move into urban area due to some personal reasons. Head of the member and queen of the house, both selected a place, specifically a subtle house. After moving there, we all heard about some spooky story that happend in this house in prior time. At first we did not pay much attention, but officially when we shifted there along with interect more with loc

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.5

You address both questions: you suggest curiosity and an emotional connection to a home as reasons, and list possible research methods such as asking a landlord, speaking with local residents, searching online, and contacting the town hall. These are relevant responses to the task. However, the reasons are only briefly explained, and the research list is not developed to show how these sources could provide reliable information. The personal example begins to illustrate why a history might attract interest, but it is cut off before the experience or its outcome is explained. Your opening also gives a position about agreeing with interested people, although the task asks for reasons and methods rather than an opinion. Develop each main point with a clear explanation or a complete example to address the task more fully.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.0

There is some organisation: an opening is followed by a paragraph about reasons, a numbered list of research methods, and the start of a personal example. The list makes the suggested methods easy to identify. However, the response does not progress smoothly from one developed idea to the next, and the final example stops mid-sentence, leaving the essay without a conclusion. Some linking is mechanical or unclear, as in “To account their… interest,” while the numbered points are not connected to explanations of how each method helps. Use complete paragraphs with clear topic sentences, link each example to the point it supports, and finish with a brief concluding summary.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

You attempt vocabulary relevant to the topic, including “fascination,” “historical incident,” “locals,” and “authorized people,” and you try to express ideas about curiosity and attachment to a home. However, frequent spelling errors and inaccurate word choices make parts difficult to understand, for example “curisity,” “histrocial,” “intrgule,” and “empath… interest.” Several phrases are also unnatural or unclear, such as “the house or building where people live with their family, is become a crucial ptart of their nature” and “Head of the member and queen of the house.” Aim for accurate, natural collocations rather than ambitious wording. Proofread spelling and choose straightforward expressions such as “a strong connection to their home” when that conveys your meaning more clearly.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 4.5

You attempt both simple statements and longer sentences, including a reason clause beginning “Since…” and a sentence explaining that your family moved. However, the range is limited, and errors in basic sentence construction and verb forms occur frequently. For example, “There is significant amount of individuals are becoming” combines incompatible structures; “the house… is become” has an incorrect verb form; and “human are borned” has agreement and tense/form problems. Articles and punctuation are also inconsistent, as in “in the internet” and the lower-case sentence opening “from my perspective.” These errors sometimes make the intended meaning hard to follow. Practise building accurate simple sentences first, then add subordinate clauses while checking subject–verb agreement, articles, and verb forms.

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