Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Barron's Writing · 2026-11-12

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 6.0)

Due to the hectic schedule and busy days, a lot of employees are relying on restaurants and convenience food which is frozen food and packed meals rather than home cooked food to supply most of their meals.

From my perspective, this saves a lot of time of people, especially who don't have much time to cook food at home, so they can grab packed meals and eat it whenever they are hungry. Moreover, if one is not cooking at home, they don't have to worry about the grocery shopping, which ultimately reduces stress and time. In addition to this, such people don't have to clean and maintain their kitchen as it does not get dirty from cooking.

Additionally, this helps to eat meal of our choice and needs. It also help small buiness to make more profit from selling more meals.

However, with benefits, it has many drawbacks too. Initially, depending on frozen food everyday will damage our health and can cause infections. Moreover eating fast food daily is a bad habit for all. Eating processed food daily will greatly influence our immunity as we may not eat healthy food always.

For example, the kitchen area of many restaurants might not be cleaned regularly and this can cause micro organisms to grow rapidly on food. Chances of contamination of food is on high risk for packed meals. Meanwhile many restaurants may not use clean utensils to cook and serve food. All thesecan cause illness to our health.

So, the conclusion is one can rely on restaurants and convinence food for somedays but should not depend on it everyday. Cooking nutritious and healthy food in home is better than eating outside everyday.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0

You address both the advantages and disadvantages and give a clear overall view: convenience saves time, while relying on these foods every day may harm health. The points about avoiding grocery shopping and kitchen cleaning are relevant, and the contamination example adds support to the disadvantages. However, some ideas are less fully explained than others. For instance, the claim that this way of eating “helps to eat meal of our choice and needs” is unclear, and the benefit to small businesses is mentioned without showing how it relates to consumers. Develop these points with a specific explanation or example, and distinguish more carefully between restaurant meals and packaged convenience food. The response meets the stated length requirement; 12 words copied from the task prompt were not counted.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0

The response has a clear overall arrangement: an introduction, benefits, drawbacks, an example, and a conclusion. Paragraphing helps the reader follow the shift from advantages to disadvantages, and linking expressions such as “Moreover,” “In addition to this,” and “However” make the relationships between points visible. At times, though, the progression feels list-like, with several benefits or risks added without being connected or developed. The paragraph beginning “For example” also repeats the food-safety concern from the previous paragraph rather than extending the discussion with a distinct example. Some references, such as “this” in “this helps to eat meal,” are unclear. Group related points and use referencing that makes each connection explicit.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use an adequate range of vocabulary for the topic, including “hectic schedule,” “grocery shopping,” “processed food,” “immunity,” and “contamination.” These choices help communicate the main ideas, and the response is generally understandable. However, several word choices and collocations are imprecise or repetitive: “damage our health,” “infections,” and “illness to our health” do not express the risks as naturally as more precise health-related phrasing would. There are also spelling errors, including “buiness,” “convinence,” and “thesecan,” and repeated use of “food” and “daily.” Aim for accurate collocations and proofread spelling; a more varied vocabulary would make the discussion clearer and more fluent.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You use a mix of simple and complex forms, including a relative clause in “convenience food which is frozen food and packed meals” and conditional structures such as “if one is not cooking at home.” Most ideas remain understandable, but some grammatical errors occur. For example, “especially who don't have much time” lacks a clear grammatical subject, “it also help” has a subject–verb agreement error, and “one can rely … for somedays” has an incorrectly formed time expression. Articles and number are also inconsistent in phrases such as “eat meal” and “micro organisms.” Work on agreement, article use, and sentence construction, while retaining the complex structures you attempt.

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