Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Cambridge IELTS 19 · 2026-11-13

IELTS Writing Task 2 question

The working week should be shorter and workers should have a longer weekend.

Do you agree or disagree?

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

Student answer (Band 6.0)

The working week should be shorter and workers should have a longer weekend. I strongly agree with the statement because workers play an essential role in all fields such as industrial factories, farming and other types of work. Workers are as important as engineers on the work site.

Therefore, in our society workers are not getting the same rights as others. Some people think that they are lower-class people they do not have standards to live in our surroundings. Workers work for their family to support them financially but after a lot of hard work, people are putting fingers on them. Workers are not very educated but they have all the knowledge about what is or what is going to happen with them. Many employees have busy schedules during the week, so they do not get enough time for their personal activities. If they can get more time they can enjoy their hobbies and involve in other physical activities which help them to reduce mental stress and improve their stamina which can boost their working abilities.

Furthermore, the working week should be shorter and have longer weekends for workers. Workers work for their families in hot weather so they need a rest to reduce their stress and provide relief to their body. For instance, last year’s hundred of workers died at the same site because they had a burden of work that they cannot sleep for almost 5 days taking stress cause's several deaths. Shorter working weeks can also improves employs' productivity. However, if companies provide longer weekends, workers can return to their jobs with fresh minds and more energy, and spend quality time with their family.

In conclusion, governments need to give employees longer holidays because it helps them to maintain their life balance and Improve their performance.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0

Your position is clear from the opening: “I strongly agree,” and you give relevant reasons, including time for hobbies, reduced stress, and improved productivity. The example about workers dying after an excessive workload also attempts to support your argument. However, the response addresses the proposal unevenly: the discussion of workers’ social status and education is only loosely connected to shorter working weeks, while the benefits of a longer weekend are more relevant but not fully explained. Develop each main reason with a clearer link to shorter hours and a specific, credible example. The conclusion restates your view, though it could summarise the strongest reasons more precisely. The response meets the task’s length requirement; 13 words copied from the prompt were not counted.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0

The response has a recognisable structure: an introduction, two body paragraphs and a conclusion. Paragraphs generally group related points, and signposts such as “Therefore,” “Furthermore” and “In conclusion” help readers follow the overall direction. However, progression is sometimes weakened by abrupt or unclear links. For example, the discussion of workers being “lower-class” shifts into the benefits of personal activities without explaining the connection, and the sentence about deaths at a work site is difficult to follow. Some linking phrases also feel mechanical, particularly the repeated return to the claim that workers need longer weekends. To improve, organise each body paragraph around one clear reason and use linking language to show how each example supports that reason; make references such as “they” unambiguous.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use a sufficient range of vocabulary to discuss work, wellbeing and productivity, including “mental stress,” “stamina,” “productivity” and “quality time.” These choices make the main ideas understandable, and there are attempts at more specific language. However, some word choices and collocations are inaccurate or unnatural, such as “putting fingers on them,” “a burden of work,” and “maintain their life balance.” There are also spelling or word-form slips, including “employs” where “employees” is intended. These issues do not prevent the reader from understanding your position, but they reduce precision and naturalness. Build a bank of common collocations for employment and wellbeing, and check that each chosen phrase fits its context before using it.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You use both simple and complex sentence forms, including conditional structures such as “If they can get more time, they can enjoy their hobbies” and a contrast introduced by “However.” Most of the argument remains understandable, but some grammatical errors affect clarity. For example, “Some people think that they are lower-class people they do not have standards” joins clauses without suitable punctuation or a conjunction. There are also agreement and verb-form problems in “Shorter working weeks can also improves” and “hundred of workers died.” The sentence about workers being unable to sleep for almost five days is difficult to parse because its clauses are not clearly connected. Practise accurate clause joining, subject–verb agreement and plural forms, then proofread long sentences for punctuation.

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