Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.0 · Cambridge IELTS 17 · 2026-10-26

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 5.0)

Some people argued that socialize with co-workers during evenings and weekends is a good idea, while other people says that people should keep working life separate from social life is more important. Socialize with co-workers helps to make a good relationship at work place and that relation helpful to done project work in hard time. On the other hand, if people should separate their both life helps to spent more time with family and personal development.

To begin with, People likes to make a new friends and they spent their majority time on workplace and with their peers. Friendship with them helps to maintain happy environment at work. When people spent their evening dinner party and weekends trips with their co-workers, that makes close relationship and people enjoy share working with them. Moreover, This relationship helps to fulfill target and projects on time. People helps eachother on their hard time and find a solution of any problematic situation. For example, My colleague always helps to me for completing my work in deadline and we find a solution of any problem easily.

On the other hand, People should separate their both work and social life. People can spent their more quality time with their family and that makes their bond stronger. Also, it escape from stress and work and improve mental health. Moreover, peopld can spent that time on personal development. That can do their favourite hobbies in their free time. They can also learn new things which helps to achieve their future goals.

In my opinion, Because people should makes good relationship with their workmates, makes

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.0

You discuss both views: workplace friendships may create a happier environment and help colleagues complete projects, while keeping work separate can allow more family time, reduce stress, and support personal development. These points are relevant, but they are mostly stated rather than explained with specific reasoning. The example about a colleague helping you meet a deadline supports the first view, though the second view would benefit from a concrete example too. Your own position is not completed: the final sentence begins “In my opinion” but stops before expressing a clear choice or balanced conclusion. Develop the reasons further and state your opinion explicitly in a complete concluding paragraph.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.0

The response has a basic paragraph structure, with an introduction, a paragraph for each view, and an attempted conclusion. The signposts “To begin with” and “On the other hand” help readers identify the two sides. However, the overall progression is weakened because the conclusion is unfinished, and several ideas within paragraphs are linked mechanically through repeated “Moreover” and “Also.” Some references are unclear, such as “that relation” and “that makes close relationship,” so the reader has to infer what they refer to. Organise each body paragraph around one main claim, then explain and illustrate it with a clear link between sentences. Complete the conclusion so it brings the discussion together.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

You use enough topic-related vocabulary to communicate the main ideas, including “co-workers,” “workplace,” “mental health,” “personal development,” and “future goals.” However, the range is limited and several word choices or combinations are noticeably inaccurate, sometimes making the meaning less natural. For example, “helps to fulfill target and projects” and “enjoy share working with them” do not express the intended ideas idiomatically. There are also spelling and form errors, such as “peopld” and “eachother.” Build a more precise range of collocations for workplace relationships and work-life balance, and check spelling and word forms during revision. Aim to express familiar ideas accurately before adding less common vocabulary.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempt both simple and longer sentences, including clauses with “while,” “when,” and “which,” but control is inconsistent. Frequent errors in agreement and verb forms appear in examples such as “other people says,” “People likes,” and “people can spent.” Sentence construction is also faulty in “if people should separate their both life helps,” while the final sentence beginning “In my opinion” is incomplete. These errors sometimes make the reader work to understand the intended meaning. Practise forming complete sentences with a clear subject and verb, and check subject–verb agreement and verb forms. More accurate control of these patterns will make your ideas easier to follow.

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