Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.0 · Barron's Writing · 2026-11-10

IELTS Writing Task 2 question

A growing number of people rely on restaurants and convenience food (frozen food and packaged meals) rather than home-cooked food to supply most of their meals.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of eating this way?

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

Student answer (Band 5.0)

In this modern era most peoples relay on resturants and convenience food like frozen food and packaged meals rather than home cooked food most of their meals. So the question is why peoples doing this and what it has some advantages or dis agvantages. We can say yes it have some advantages and also have some disadvantages like if we talk about advantages useage of frozen foods we can store food for a long time like if we are going on a trip and on trip we are going is a forest trip and there is not any shops and malls where we can but food and if we have frozen foods we can use them for a long time without become worried about food and another benifit is a fruits which are available in summers but not available in winter so we can store that fruit by freezing and we can use that fruites in the winters and where we are talking about the usage of frozen foods we also have to speak about the disadvantages. When we use frozen food the ingridients of the food may also effected because the fresh food have a different taste and different nutrational value and when a food become freezed its taste effected and the nutrational value is also affected and to freez a food we have to use some chemicals which is not good for our health. I'll give an example from my experience few months ago i bake a cake and it was very delicious and i eat half of it and i freezed the other half and after few days when i eat that half its taste was totally changed and dot like that taste so thats why i am not prefer to eat frozen food if you dont have any emergancy

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.0

You address both advantages and disadvantages, and the examples about storing seasonal fruit and your cake illustrate your points. However, the response only partially fulfils the task because it focuses almost entirely on frozen food, while the prompt also asks about relying on restaurants and packaged meals. The advantages are mainly about storage and availability; the disadvantages are asserted rather than fully explained, particularly the claim that chemicals are needed. Your opening asks why people choose this food, but the response does not develop reasons such as convenience or limited time. To strengthen the response, cover the full range of food types and explain each main point with a clear reason and relevant example. The 10 words copied from the task prompt were not counted.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 4.0

There is a recognisable movement from an introduction to advantages, then disadvantages, followed by a personal example. However, the response is presented as one very long paragraph, so the stages of the argument are difficult to distinguish. Ideas are joined repeatedly with “and,” “so,” and “when,” creating a run-on sequence rather than clear progression. The shift from the benefits of frozen food to its disadvantages is signalled, but the example about the cake is attached to the final point without a clear concluding sentence. Use separate paragraphs for the introduction, advantages, disadvantages, and conclusion. Within them, use a smaller range of linking phrases and make sure each sentence develops one main idea.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

You use some relevant vocabulary, including “convenience food,” “frozen,” “ingredients,” and “nutritional value,” and the reader can generally identify the topic and examples. However, the range is limited and several words or phrases are repeated, especially “frozen food,” “food,” and “taste.” Frequent spelling errors such as “resturants,” “benifit,” “ingridients,” and “nutrational” make the writing less clear and reduce accuracy. Some expressions are also imprecise, for example “a forest trip” and “the taste was totally changed.” Build a more accurate range for discussing eating habits, health, cost, and convenience, and check spelling carefully. More precise wording would help communicate your ideas without relying on repeated basic terms.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempt longer sentences using clauses with “if,” “when,” and “because,” but these structures are often faulty or difficult to follow. For example, “if we are going on a trip and on trip we are going is a forest trip” has unclear clause structure, while “the fresh food have” shows a subject–verb agreement error. There are also frequent problems with articles, plurals, verb forms, and sentence boundaries, as in “it have some advantages” and the long opening sentence. These errors sometimes make the reader work to understand the intended meaning. Practise building accurate simple sentences first, then combine them using one subordinate clause at a time. Check agreement, tense, articles, and punctuation when editing.

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