Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

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IELTS Writing Task 2 question

Some people watch TV on their own, while others like watching it with their family. Both ways have good and bad points.

Do the advantages of watching television in these two ways outweigh the disadvantages?

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

Student answer (Band 6.0)

TV is a great source of knowlege. Today, every family have TV in their houses, some has only one while others have personal TV in their own rooms. This setup comes with its own pros and corns.

The biggested advantage of one TV in a family is that children below the age of 15 can be suppervised by their parents to have control on the type of contact they watch. This also give the family the advantage of spening time together. Families can watch shows like family games, quiz games that also help strengthening the bond between children and their parents. On the other hand watching TV with the family does gets boring for children sometimes because of the personal preferences. Parents often like to watch mature shows, news or informational talks which become boring for children.

Having personl TV is great investment. With a personal TV children or parents don't have to worry about the type of content they are watching. Parents can easily enjoy their evening football match while children can watch their informative quiz chanels. Personal TV also comes with its disadvantages, It limits the supervision of parents on their children. Some children end up watching content unrelivent to them and adapt bad habits. This also limit useful family time with the family.

In conclusion, TV is very useful and play great role in bring the family together. On the other side, it also cause bad impact on childrens when it comes to the content prefernece and thats what dintance the family and limit their evening family time. It also entirely depend on personal prefernece and circumstances whether they want to watch TV with or without family.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.5

You address both ways of watching television and give relevant advantages and disadvantages, including parental supervision, shared family time, personal choice, and exposure to unsuitable content. Your conclusion also indicates that the choice depends on preference and circumstances. However, the question asks whether the advantages outweigh the disadvantages, and your position on this comparison is not clear: the conclusion lists effects but does not state which side is stronger. Some points are also asserted rather than explained—for example, the claim that personal TVs can lead children to “adapt bad habits” would benefit from a specific explanation or example. State your overall judgement clearly in the introduction and return to it in the conclusion, while developing the main reasons supporting it.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.5

The response has a clear overall arrangement: an introduction, separate paragraphs for shared and personal viewing, and a conclusion. The contrast markers “On the other hand” and “In conclusion” help readers follow the discussion, and the ideas generally progress in a sensible order. This meets the lower-band expectation of coherent organisation and shows some of the flexibility associated with stronger cohesion. However, links between ideas can feel mechanical, and the conclusion repeats points without bringing them together into a clear comparison. The reference in “This also limit useful family time with the family” is repetitive and slightly unclear. Use more precise referencing and connect each paragraph’s examples back to your overall judgement to make the progression more purposeful.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use vocabulary relevant to the topic, including “personal preferences,” “supervision,” “informative,” and “content,” and you attempt some less common expressions such as “strengthening the bond.” This gives you enough range to discuss the main ideas, but control is uneven. Several spelling errors—“knowlege,” “suppervised,” “personl,” and “prefernece”—are noticeable, while phrases such as “pros and corns” and “great investment” are inaccurate or imprecise in context. “Type of contact” also does not clearly express the intended meaning. These errors do not prevent the reader from understanding the main argument, but they limit precision. Check spelling carefully and choose collocations that express your meaning directly, such as “advantages and disadvantages” and “type of content.”

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You attempt both simple and more complex sentence forms, including a relative clause in “shows … that also help strengthening the bond” and contrastive structures such as “while children can watch.” The main ideas remain understandable, but errors in agreement, verb forms, and sentence construction are frequent enough to make the writing less controlled. For example, “every family have” should use a singular verb, “This also give” needs agreement, and “does gets boring” has an incorrect auxiliary pattern. The final sentence also contains an unclear construction around “whether they want to watch.” Practise checking subject–verb agreement and auxiliary verbs, and build complex sentences with a clear main clause and correctly formed dependent clauses.

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