Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.0 · Cambridge IELTS 15 · 2026-10-04

IELTS Writing Task 2 question

In many countries today, crime novels and TV crime dramas are becoming more and more popular. Why do you think these books and TV shows are popular? What is your opinion of crime fiction and TV crime dramas?

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

 

Student answer (Band 5.0)

Nowadays, people are much enjoying the thriller movies or a books rather than the other kind of serials in the world. Most of the people are more affraid with the crime series and they are watching with more interest.

Reason behind it, people are very used to be with the same comedy and drama so, they are looking for something more interesting. Also nowadays, writer are making a more movies on crime, so people are getting affraid with it. Furthermore, crime based drams or novels has too much thrill and action so people are not getting bore. Sometimes, the producer making a film on a real crime story, so people are watching movies with more interest because people wants to know what the actual thing was happened in reality. For instance, a film which is based on any perticular violent which was currently happened in your city and what the governments took action on it.

From the my perspective, these kind of books or film are sometimes very dangeours for the public because many of them try to compare with the real life and they are doing the same things which was done in movies. Also people are taking too much serious about the crime and sometimes they are the

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 4.5

The response addresses the two parts of the prompt regarding the popularity of crime fiction and the student's personal opinion. However, the ideas remain limited and under-developed, relying on simple generalisations without sufficient supporting examples. Furthermore, the length requirement is not met, as the response contains only 210 words, falling short of the 250-word minimum. The position is stated, but the arguments are repetitive and lack depth, which keeps the task achievement at a minimal level.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.0

There is some organisation in the response, with distinct paragraphs attempting to introduce reasons and a personal opinion. However, there is no clear overall progression between ideas, and the logical flow is occasionally disrupted by abrupt shifts. Cohesive devices are used in a somewhat repetitive or mechanical manner, such as 'Also nowadays' and 'Furthermore', and referencing is occasionally unclear, such as pronoun use referring back to vague concepts. Paragraphing is attempted but lacks the control needed for higher bands.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

The vocabulary range is limited but minimally adequate to express basic ideas about the topic. There are noticeable lexical errors, such as 'affraid' instead of 'afraid', 'perticular' instead of 'particular', and 'dangeours' instead of 'dangerous'. Word choices and collocations are often basic or awkward, for instance, 'people are very used to be with the same comedy'. These errors occasionally cause some difficulty for the reader in grasping the precise meaning.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 4.5

The writer uses a limited range of sentence structures, and attempts at more complex sentences are frequently faulty. There are frequent grammatical errors throughout the text, including tense and verb form issues like 'people are much enjoying', 'writer are making a more movies', and 'what the actual thing was happened'. Punctuation and articles also show persistent inaccuracies, and the final sentence is incomplete, which heavily impacts the overall structural control.

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