Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Recent IELTS Exams (Canada & India) · 2026-10-08

IELTS Writing Task 2 question

In many countries not enough students are choosing to study science at university. What are the causes of this? What effects does it have on society?

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

Student answer (Band 6.0)

Various countries are facing shortages of students willing to pursue a career in the field of science. Although science projects a prospective future, students are not ready to put enough effort into it. Another reason is that non-technical careers often have more job opportunities. This causes a decline in the overall scentific temprament and possibily stagnate the progression of a society.

Careers in the field of science often requires individuals to understand the topics throughly and have a prolonged memory of the same. Students are required to practice for hours to understand a topic while the business or humanities majors can be comparatively easier, so the students tend to take an easier route. For example, A medical student has to understand and remember treatments and drugs to prescribe to patients with different illnesses or an engineering student has to do math to calculate the failure modes of a mechanical structure. All these require individuals to perform rigorous reearch and calculation.

Decline in the students pursuing science in universities have consequences. If less students are completing a degree in science, there will not be enough personels to conduct research and analysis. In this age science and technology is responsible for safeguarding a country, innovating crop varients to survive drought or creating medicine to cure cancer.

Therefore, for the progression of the society, eradicating life threatning diseases and creating technologies to improve the well being of human beings, it is important to have more students graduating from universities in the field of science.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0

You address both parts of the question: you identify demanding study and the appeal of non-technical careers as causes, then explain that fewer science graduates could limit research and innovation. The examples of medical students learning treatments and engineers assessing structural failure help make the first cause concrete. Your discussion of societal effects is relevant, especially the references to crop varieties and cancer medicines. However, the second cause is asserted rather than explained, and the effects are listed more than developed; for instance, you could show how a shortage of researchers affects public health or food security. The opening also says science offers a prospective future, which sits uneasily beside the claim that students avoid it. Clarifying this contrast and extending the effects would make the response more complete.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0

The response has a clear overall shape: an introduction, a paragraph explaining a cause, a paragraph on consequences, and a concluding statement. The progression from students’ choices to the wider impact is easy to follow, and examples are placed near the ideas they support. However, the introduction combines several points quickly, and the relationship between science’s “prospective future” and students’ reluctance is not made clear. Some links are also mechanical, particularly the repeated use of “Therefore” to introduce the conclusion after the preceding paragraph has already established the consequences. Develop a clearer topic sentence for each body paragraph and use referencing or transitions to show how each example supports the main point. This would make the organisation more controlled and the connections less abrupt.

Lexical Resource: Band 6.0

You use an adequate range of topic vocabulary, including “pursue a career,” “research and analysis,” “safeguarding,” and “drought,” which helps communicate the subject clearly. There are also attempts at more formal phrasing, such as “progression of a society” and “eradicating life-threatening diseases.” However, some word choices and collocations are inaccurate or awkward: “science projects a prospective future,” “prolonged memory,” and “decline in the overall scientific temperament” do not express the intended ideas naturally. Spelling errors such as “scentific,” “temprament,” “possibily,” and “varients” also reduce accuracy. Aim for precise, conventional combinations—for example, describing science as offering “promising career prospects”—and proofread spelling and word forms carefully.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 6.0

You use a mix of simple and complex forms, including a concessive opening with “Although” and conditional structures such as “If less students are completing a degree…”. Most sentences remain understandable, and the examples are expressed in complete clauses. Some grammatical errors persist, however. Subject–verb agreement is inconsistent in “Careers … often requires” and “Decline … have consequences”; the conditional phrase also needs a plural form (“fewer students”). There are article and number issues in “not enough personels,” while “a medical student … or an engineering student” would benefit from more consistent parallel structure. The long final sentence is also difficult to control. Review agreement, countable nouns, and sentence boundaries, then vary complex structures while keeping each clause clear.

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