Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.5 · Cambridge IELTS 15 · 2026-10-06

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 5.5)

In many notion, popularity of crime books and TV crime shows are increasingly day by day. while there are various reason for popularity and according to my perspective its spread the awearness and entertaining for people.

The major reason is that with the help of crime novels and TV Program, people can get knowledge about the world that what is happening nowadays. Its spread the awearness about the crime. Crime is increasing these days. people shows not only curisity about the story but also its create the suspense about it. These story are real base story and it help them to be awear from crime. For example, CID show helps people to investigation about the crime because the concept of that show is real and understandable.

Entertainment is the another reason, people have very hectic schedule and they do not have to go anywhere for entertainment. Because of this, they love to watch these TV Shows. by watching these dramas they do not feel entertain but also they can get information about the creative ideas by investigation.

As per my opinion, these novels and TV shows are plays imperative role in everyone life. In these they do not promote extremally violent but they can see the investigation on somethings important. I believe that program that have heavy violent that is a negative impact on society.

Turning everything into consideration, although promoting heavy violent is consider disadvantage, there are more positive aspects of the crime novels and TV dramas in people real life.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0

Your essay addresses all parts of the prompt by discussing why crime fiction is popular and providing your opinion. However, some ideas are more fully developed than others. For instance, while you mention that these shows help people get knowledge, the explanation remains somewhat repetitive and relies on a single general example like 'CID'. Your position is clear throughout the response, but to reach a higher level, you would need to extend and support your ideas with more thorough explanations and fully developed examples rather than briefly touching upon points like stress relief and awareness.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0

There is a coherent overall arrangement in your essay, with clear paragraphing separating the introduction, reasons for popularity, entertainment value, personal opinion, and conclusion. However, cohesion is sometimes faulty or mechanical. For example, transitional phrases like 'The major reason is that' and 'Entertainment is the another reason' are quite basic, and referencing is occasionally unclear, such as 'In these they do not promote'. To improve, you should use a wider variety of cohesive devices more flexibly and ensure that the logical links between sentences and paragraphs flow more naturally.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

Your vocabulary is adequate for the task, allowing you to communicate your main points about crime shows and entertainment. You attempt less common vocabulary such as 'suspense', 'investigation', and 'imperative role', but there are noticeable errors in word choice, form, and spelling, such as 'notion' instead of 'nations', 'awearness' instead of 'awareness', 'curisity', 'real base story', and 'awear'. While these errors do not completely impede communication, they cause some difficulty for the reader and reflect a limited lexical control that prevents a higher score.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You demonstrate a limited range of sentence structures, relying heavily on simple sentences alongside basic complex attempts that are often faulty. There are frequent errors in grammar, including subject-verb agreement issues like 'popularity of crime books... are increasingly', article omissions, and prepositions inside grammatical patterns, such as 'help them to be awear from crime' instead of 'aware of'. Punctuation and word form errors also appear within structures. These frequent errors cause some difficulty for the reader, which places your grammatical control at this level.

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