Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer
Overall Band Score: 5.0 · Cambridge IELTS 19 · 2026-09-16
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 5.0)
In this modern age working becoming very harsh for indivisuals. Ith should be be shorten of working week and longer wekend for worker. I totally agreed with this stament. In this essay dicuss, how it will gave relief from psycological and physical stress.
Significantly, shorter working week is essential in less burdon of psycolocal problems. Because shorter week make indivisuals to be stresfull for shorter period of time, it do enhance working abality of employees and make them more productive. For example, if someone work for five to six days in a week, it is very difficult for him to work on new challeging task in next week by rest just one or two days. He can not thick properly how to tack any problem because his mind is not enough rested. Therefore, shorter week is very essesial for relief from stress and anxiety.
Moreover, longer weekend are essential for employees to get well rested and tackles family issues. Because of physical work from home and job, indivisuals need to get rest and reslax thier muscles alongside mind. For example, if someone is marraid and have children, he needs to hand houshold work such as shopping, buying stuff for children and managing thier needs. As a results, longer week can provide enough rest physicaly and mentally.
In conclusion, Shorter week and longer week are very essensial for indivisual. Relief from stress, anxiet and rst f
AI examiner evaluation
| Criterion | Band |
|---|---|
| Task Achievement / Task Response | 5.0 |
| Coherence and Cohesion | 5.0 |
| Lexical Resource | 5.0 |
| Grammatical Range and Accuracy | 4.5 |
| Overall | 5.0 |
Task Achievement / Task Response — Band 5.0
The response attempts to address the prompt by expressing a clear position agreeing that the working week should be shorter and weekends longer. However, the development of ideas is limited and repetitive, with arguments about stress relief and family issues remaining relatively surface-level. Furthermore, the response suffers from a critical shortcoming in length: it contains 235 words, which falls below the mandatory 250-word minimum specified for IELTS Task 2. This under-length impacts the overall fullness of task completion and prevents the score from reaching the higher bands. Consequently, the task achievement is marked down due to the length penalty. Band score: 5.0.
Coherence and Cohesion — Band 5.0
The essay is divided into paragraphs with an introduction, two body paragraphs, and an unfinished conclusion, showing an attempt at overall organisation. However, the progression of ideas is frequently disrupted by mechanical and faulty cohesive devices, such as 'Significantly,' and 'Moreover,' used somewhat awkwardly. Referencing is sometimes unclear, and the abrupt end to the conclusion indicates a lack of smooth transitions and logical completion. Paragraphing is attempted, but internal cohesion is weak. Band score: 5.0.
Lexical Resource — Band 5.0
The lexical range is limited and minimally adequate for discussing work-life balance. The student attempts some less common vocabulary, such as 'psycological,' 'anxiet,' and 'productivity,' but these are heavily undermined by frequent spelling errors ('indivisuals', 'burdon', 'reslax', 'marraid') and inappropriate word choices. Many words are repeated frequently throughout the text, and errors occasionally cause strain for the reader, fitting the Band 5 profile where noticeable lexical errors and spelling mistakes are persistent. Band score: 5.0.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy — Band 4.5
The essay demonstrates a very limited range of grammatical structures. While there are a few attempts at complex sentences using subordinate clauses, these are frequently faulty, such as in 'Because shorter week make indivisuals to be stresfull for shorter period of time, it do enhance working abality'. Frequent errors in tense, subject-verb agreement, and sentence construction are present throughout the text, often causing difficulty for the reader. Simple sentences dominate, and control over punctuation is weak. Band score: 4.5.
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