Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Barron's Writing · 2026-08-22

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)

Nowadays, people love to enjoy the restaurants food which easy to get without any efforts and tasty too. Some people dependent on restaurants and frozen food as compared to homemade food. I will discuss both viewpoints in these paragraphs.

To begins, some people rely on some kind of frozen food and restaurants for their meals because they think that it is easy to be made frozen food which can save the person's time without any efforts. For example, people who worked early in the morning in offices, schools they usually in hurry in the morning that's the reason they don't have time to make some food on that time they prefer to make easy food or get something from the cafes or restaurants. Moreover, they think that home-cooking is the most time-consuming task which can waste their time, in that time they can do their rest of the thing in their homes and offices works. That is the reason why they choose these kinds of foods.

On the other hand, this convenience food is not food for our health. For now, these can save us time but after some time when we were getting old or in future it creates a lot of health issue for us like hypertension, heart disease, obesity etc. For instance, some people love to it restaurants food like pizza and burgers. This type of food contains lot of calories which can leads to the health issues. Hence, these kinds of over fats food create the obesity problems after some time.

To conclude, no doubt this kind of food can save our time and easy get to but after some it will be worse for us as consider to our health. Sometimes we can go with this food when we really don't have any options always try to cook food in home which is good for health.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response — Band 6.0

The response addresses both the advantages and disadvantages of convenience food. The ideas are relevant, such as time-saving benefits and health risks like obesity and heart disease. However, the development is somewhat limited. The arguments are presented in a repetitive manner, and the examples provided, such as 'people who worked early in the morning', are quite general. To reach a higher band, you should expand on your points with more specific, detailed explanations or nuanced examples. The position is clear throughout, but the overall depth of analysis is consistent with a Band 6 level.

Coherence and Cohesion — Band 6.0

The essay is organised into clear paragraphs, and there is a logical progression from the introduction to the advantages, disadvantages, and conclusion. You use some cohesive devices like 'Moreover', 'On the other hand', and 'To conclude'. However, the use of these devices is sometimes mechanical or slightly unnatural, such as 'To begins' instead of 'To begin with'. Additionally, some referencing is slightly unclear, and the flow between sentences could be smoother. The paragraphing is appropriate, but the internal cohesion within paragraphs needs more variety to achieve a higher score.

Lexical Resource — Band 5.5

The vocabulary is generally adequate for the task, allowing you to express your ideas clearly. You use some topic-specific terms like 'time-consuming', 'hypertension', and 'obesity'. However, there are several instances of awkward word choice and collocation errors, such as 'restaurants food', 'easy to be made frozen food', and 'over fats food'. These errors do not impede communication, but they demonstrate a limited range and a lack of precision. To improve, focus on learning common collocations and ensuring you use the correct word forms (e.g., 'restaurant food' instead of 'restaurants food').

Grammatical Range and Accuracy — Band 5.5

You attempt a mix of simple and complex sentence structures, but there are frequent grammatical errors throughout the text. Examples include 'people dependent on' (missing verb 'are'), 'which can leads to' (incorrect verb form), and 'easy get to' (incorrect structure). Punctuation is also inconsistent, particularly with comma usage. While the meaning is generally clear, the high frequency of errors in basic grammar prevents the essay from reaching a higher band. You should focus on subject-verb agreement and the correct use of relative clauses to improve your accuracy.

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