Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Cambridge IELTS 17 · 2026-09-30

IELTS Writing Task 2 question

Some people think that it’s a good idea to socialise with work colleagues during evenings and weekends. Other people think it’s important to keep working life completely separate from social life.

Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.

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

Student answer (Band 6.0)

Through different forms of print and digital media, we come across reports that it is good to have same people in your life who work with you and also be the important part of your social life. One school of thoughts states that people have to go for outings with your coleagues and enjoy your holidays. Conversely, there is an argument that individual should keep their professional and private life separate. As far as my inclination goes, the former view is more convincing.

One of the most importatnt point is that if people used to share most of their time with their colleagues It will make their bond strong. This view exists as it is human nature that people who give more time to their friends are more relible and have best connection with each other. As a result, they will help them in every situation when it is needed. Not only this, sometimes bond will be that much strong, people feel like family. Generally speking, People go to each others house and meet their family. Hense, they will enjoy their festival together and go on holidays with famillies. According to recent research in this matter, people are used to rely and have trust on each other and live like a family.

On the other hand, critics insist that sometime people get your bond to get some private information about ourself. To elaborate, people come close to you and use your private things to make a joke on it. So, People do not get trust on each other. Moreover, there is one more thing is that people be the reasons for your insecurities. By this, I mean that If one person can give life time trauma to another by just break their trust. Therefore, People will not trust to the second or any persons in their life. I can site a paradigem for this, in todays world people not rely on other persons

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.5

The response successfully addresses all parts of the prompt by discussing both views on socialising with colleagues and clearly stating the author's own opinion in the introduction. The main body paragraphs explore both sides: the benefits of bonding and forming a family-like connection, and the potential drawbacks such as loss of privacy and broken trust. Ideas are relevant and extended, although some supporting arguments, particularly in the conclusion of the second body paragraph, tend to drift into generalisations without fully fleshing out concrete examples. Overall, the task is answered adequately, earning a band score of 6.5.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0

The essay displays a coherent overall arrangement with a clear introduction, body paragraphs representing both sides, and a stated position. However, paragraphing is somewhat inconsistent, as evidenced by stray formatting and indentations, and the transition between ideas can feel mechanical. Cohesive devices are employed, but referencing is sometimes unclear, such as ambiguous pronoun usage like 'they will help them in every situation'. Paragraphing could be used more purposefully to structure the argumentation. This falls squarely into the band 6 descriptor profile.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

The student uses an adequate range of vocabulary for the task, attempting some less common phrases such as 'professional and private life separate', 'lifetime trauma', and 'paradigem'. However, there are notable spelling and word-choice errors throughout the text, including 'importatnt', 'coleagues', 'relible', 'speking', 'Hense', 'famillies', 'ourself', and 'paradigem'. These errors, while not completely impeding communication, occur frequently enough to restrict the lexical score to a band 5.5.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

The writer attempts a mix of simple and complex sentence forms, demonstrating some control over sentence structure with constructions like 'if people used to share most of their time with their colleagues it will make their bond strong'. Nevertheless, there are frequent grammatical errors, particularly involving tense consistency ('if people used to share... it will make'), subject-verb agreement, and prepositions ('rely and have trust on each other'). These errors cause some difficulty for the reader at times, aligning the grammar with a band 5.5.

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