Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.0 · Cambridge IELTS 19 · 2026-11-05

IELTS Writing Task 2 question

Some people think that competition at work, at school and in daily life is a good thing. Others believe that we should try to cooperate more, rather than competing against each other.

Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.

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

Student answer (Band 5.0)

Competiton and coopertation are both integral part of school life. some people are opinon have competiton is better while others think that cooperation is the best idea for student.The competiton create encourage and make hardwork students and work with cooperate create a spirit to help each other and work in team. Both are harmful and useful but cooperation is better.

The main problems faced by comprtiton are it create against of education in students wich have far to students one another and students. The students are study by competiton and start hate to students they start study alone and cannot partcipats other activites. Cooperation create students unlack hardwork and they cannot solve problems easily and don,t focus on their ambetion and goal. Everyone have own opinion and students have not any one ideology and cannot her goal easily some become burden others students. Some are depend on others students and make solve problems to others.

The main useful advantages create by competiton the students they start the hard work and win his misson. Otherwise it encourage the skills of students students learn new skills and earn a name.It create self develop the students find many activites in himself. Cooperation encourage students to find the answer of problems and manage the hardtime.This is also develop to respect others and their opinion. Most of time it give advise to students to unity and decipline. The students work in group with love peace and faith.

In conclusion both are better for students in school life. Both are harmful and useful.The competiton create hardwork and self develop and cooperation create unity love peace and respect everyone. Accoarding to my opinion cooperation is better it create spirit of help each other with unity faith.It also develop new ideas.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.0

You address both sides by describing competition as encouraging effort and cooperation as promoting mutual help, and you state a preference for cooperation in the introduction and conclusion. However, the discussion is only partially developed: the task concerns work, school, and daily life, while your examples and reasoning focus almost entirely on students and school. Some points are also unclear or contradictory, such as saying cooperation can make students less hardworking and dependent, without explaining when or why this happens. To strengthen the response, discuss both views in a more balanced way, include at least one relevant example beyond school, and explain how your reasons support your final preference.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.0

The response has a recognisable structure, with an introduction, two body paragraphs, and a conclusion. The body paragraphs also broadly separate disadvantages from advantages, which gives the reader some sense of organisation. However, progression within paragraphs is difficult to follow because several ideas are placed together without clear links; for example, the discussion moves from competition causing students to study alone to cooperation affecting ambition and dependence. Connect each claim to the next with clear explanation, and use paragraph topic sentences that match the paragraph’s purpose. Repeated transitions such as “The main” and “This” do not always clarify what an idea refers to, so more precise referencing and linking would improve cohesion.

Lexical Resource: Band 4.5

You attempt vocabulary relevant to the topic, including “competition,” “cooperation,” “unity,” “discipline,” and “self develop.” This shows an effort to discuss both individual achievement and group values. However, the range is limited and several words or phrases are repeated, while frequent spelling and word-choice errors sometimes make meaning difficult to understand. Examples include “Competiton,” “comprtiton,” “ambetion,” and “decipline,” as well as unnatural phrases such as “create a spirit” and “win his misson.” Build accuracy by checking spelling and learning common collocations as complete phrases, such as “encourage students to work hard” and “achieve their goals.”

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 4.5

You use mostly simple statements and make some attempts to combine ideas, for example, “Both are harmful and useful but cooperation is better.” However, the range of sentence structures is limited, and errors in sentence formation, agreement, articles, and verb forms occur frequently. In “some people are opinon have competiton is better,” the clauses are not joined into a grammatical sentence; “The students are study” also uses an incorrect verb form. Missing or incorrect punctuation and capitalisation further interrupt reading. Practise building accurate basic sentences first, then combine them with conjunctions such as “although” and “whereas.” Check that each sentence has a clear subject and correctly formed verb.

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