Band 4.5 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 4.5 · Barron's Writing · 2026-10-31

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 4.5)

Nowadays a growing number of people rely on restaurants and convenience food other people believe that home cooked food is better than their meals.

On the other hand, many people have eat food from different restaurants and enjoy it. Every individual go with friend to eat something new. For instance, the food of Pakistan is very popular in the world. It includes chicken baryani and mutton and other foods.

There are many big restaurants in the Pakistan. For example, monal resturants is famous in Pakistan. The food of this restaurant is very tasty. Many people around the world to visit this restaurant. This restaurant is surrounded by mountains.

In addition, many individuals like fast food and he did not like home made food. For example KFC is the biggest food chain in the world. He provide fresh and healthy food in globally. He have frozen the meals and then supply in the all branches in the world. Therefore, many people rely on restaurants food.

The big disadvantages restaurants food is people suffering in different disease. The people eat the meal from resturants and not going to walk and sleep at home.

On the other hand, the home cooked food is very tasty. There are many family cook the food at home and enjoy this.

In my opinion, home cooked food is better from restaurant meals. I am recommended the people rely on home meals . The big advantages of home cook food people did not suffering in different diseases and live healthy.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 4.0

You give a clear personal preference for home-cooked food at the end and mention one disadvantage of restaurant meals: possible illness. However, the task asks for advantages and disadvantages of relying on restaurants and convenience food, and the response mainly describes restaurants and particular examples such as Pakistani food, Monal, and KFC. The advantages are not clearly explained, and the discussion of home cooking does not fully answer the question about both sides of this eating pattern. Several points are asserted rather than supported, such as saying restaurant food causes disease. The response is also 9 words below the 250-word minimum; the 11 words copied from the task prompt are not included in the count. Develop relevant advantages and disadvantages with clear reasons and examples.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 4.0

The response has separate paragraphs and uses basic linking expressions such as “For instance,” “In addition,” and “Therefore,” which gives the reader some signposting. However, ideas are not arranged in a clear progression: the discussion moves from restaurants to Pakistani cuisine, then KFC, then health, and finally home cooking without consistently comparing the advantages and disadvantages. “On the other hand” is used where the relationship between ideas is not always a contrast, and the opening sentence joins two different points without clear punctuation. Improve the organisation by grouping advantages in one paragraph and disadvantages in another, then conclude with your view. Use references such as “this type of food” only when their meaning is clear.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

You use a basic range of topic vocabulary, including “restaurants,” “convenience food,” “frozen meals,” “home cooked food,” and “diseases,” so the general subject is understandable. There are also attempts at more specific examples, such as “food chain” and “surrounded by mountains.” However, vocabulary is repetitive and some word choices or combinations are inaccurate, including “restaurants food,” “suffering in different disease,” and “the biggest food chain.” Spelling errors such as “baryani” and “resturants” also reduce accuracy. Build a more precise range for discussing benefits and drawbacks—for example, terms for nutrition, cost, time-saving, and health risks—and check spelling and natural word combinations.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 4.5

Most sentences use simple subject–verb patterns, and the reader can usually identify the intended meaning. There are attempts to connect clauses, for example, “The people eat the meal from resturants and not going to walk,” but the structure is incomplete and the verb forms do not match. Agreement and verb-form errors occur frequently: “Every individual go,” “he provide,” and “He have” should use forms that agree with their subjects. Articles, plurals, and sentence boundaries also need attention, as in “in the Pakistan” and the opening sentence, which runs two ideas together. Practise accurate simple sentences first, then add controlled clauses using “because,” “although,” or “which.”

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