Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Cambridge IELTS 19 · 2026-11-14

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)

In my opinion, weekends should be longer and working week should be shorter. Having only two days of break cannot be very helpful for the working class. The nine to five concept is a bit harsh. As coming back after the work, people gets exhausted and can hardly do a any other activity.

Two years prior, I too had a coroporate job and literally did not get any time for other chores or activities. A major drawback of living in large cities is their heavy traffic which will waste our another precious hour. So, I did not had the stemina to cook for myself after coming too late at home. My health got severe because of dining out too many times. When the long awaited weekend came, one day I did my house chores and on the next day either I went out for leisure time or sometimes I just took a rest.

Those people who have a family will definitly like to have a longer period to give their family time. Shorter working week will help workers to be more punctual and will be having a fresher mind for work. This is will help both the employer and emplyees. Longer rest period will be beneficial a restart their brains for a new week.

In conclusion, I will just mention that how good a shorter working and a longer weekend can mentally beneficial for every worker. A fresher mind will give some extraordinary ideas and solutions.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0

Your position is clear from the opening: you support a shorter working week and longer weekends, and you maintain this view in the conclusion. The personal account of city traffic, limited time to cook, and using the weekend for chores or rest gives relevant support. You also mention benefits for family life, workers’ punctuality, and employers. However, some points are asserted rather than explained: for example, you say a shorter week will make workers more punctual and benefit employers, but do not show how. The family-life point is also brief. The response is four words below the required minimum, so it does not meet the task’s length instruction. Develop the less-supported claims with a specific explanation or example and ensure the response reaches the required length.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0

The response has a clear overall arrangement: an opening opinion, a paragraph about your own experience, a paragraph on wider benefits, and a conclusion. This makes the main line of argument easy to follow. Some links between ideas are less smooth, however. The shift from your personal experience to the general claim about families is abrupt, and the final paragraph largely repeats the opening position rather than drawing the reasons together. Connect each paragraph more explicitly to the central argument, and use clearer transitions when moving from personal evidence to broader effects. Within the third paragraph, the sequence of benefits would also be easier to follow if each claim were explained before introducing the next.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use a relevant range of vocabulary, including “heavy traffic,” “precious hour,” “house chores,” “leisure time,” and “fresher mind,” which helps communicate your experience and argument. There are also attempts at more specific expressions, such as “corporate job” and “long awaited weekend.” However, spelling and word-choice errors are noticeable, including “coroporate,” “stemina,” “definitly,” and “emplyees.” Some phrases are also unnatural or imprecise, such as “dining out too many times” and “restart their brains.” These do not prevent the reader from understanding your position, but they reduce precision and naturalness. Check spelling carefully and choose more conventional collocations when describing rest, health, and workplace benefits.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You attempt both simple and more complex sentence forms, and the overall meaning remains understandable. For instance, the sentence beginning “When the long awaited weekend came” introduces a time clause and then contrasts two uses of the weekend. Some grammatical errors nevertheless occur across the response. Examples include “people gets exhausted” (subject–verb agreement), “did not had” (verb form), “I did not get any time” in the past context, and “This is will help” (incorrect verb construction). Articles and sentence patterns also need attention in “a any other activity” and “will be beneficial a restart their brains.” Review agreement, past-tense forms, and modal constructions, then proofread each sentence for a complete and grammatically consistent structure.

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