Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.5 · Cambridge IELTS 19 · 2026-09-30

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 5.5)

The length of longer hour working should be reduced or worker should allowed for longer weekend. Working without break in a corporate or in a firm can be stressful. I completely agree that employees should be allowed to do less late hour working rather than long hours. Because long hours can affect their health and social well being.

Currently massive number of job person face many problems due to late time working. Companies set goal or assign task to every individual that have to accomplish too. Therefore, they demand from their employees that do work without any break. That can lead to major problems for everyone, such as workers lost their socail interaction with family and friends. For example, before a job, a person who is well to communicate with family member and friends often daily. After getting job, he does not interact as he used to interact to get latest update from those people, who give him inormation about the well being of everyone. However, in longer working hours he just gave up that sense, now he is unable to ask from family member about their health or other problems.

Furthermore, long hour working is stressful for employees because they have to accomplish targeted goal. If they do not achieve particular goal, companies may fire that person because he is not productive. However, everyone can attain the goal but their should be some relaxation needed to perform activity. For instance, if a person feel stress, it will affect his mind too. Mind will not work accurately. Therefore, it may cause to number of health issues. Because employees are not mentally prepare to do work, and their fitness is also affecting from long hour working at a particular place.

In conclusion, i believe companies should take responsiblities to reduce the work load and longer hours working from employees and provide them longer weekend. After that type of working worker can contribute more postively to company, they will came with innovative ideas. Therefore, longer hours should be reduced to achieve higher level of advancement in term of innovative ideas.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.5

The response addresses the prompt by clearly stating a position agreeing that the working week should be shorter and workers should have a longer weekend. Main ideas regarding health impacts and social wellbeing are introduced and supported with explanations and personal examples, such as the discussion on communication with family members and stress levels. However, some ideas are repetitive and lack full academic depth, tending to over-generalise points without broader societal examples. This performance aligns well with the Band 6 descriptor, where all parts of the task are addressed and a relevant position is maintained, though some arguments remain somewhat under-developed.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.5

The essay is generally coherent with a clear overall arrangement and identifiable paragraphing. Each body paragraph focuses on a distinct sub-topic, such as social interaction and stress. However, cohesive devices are sometimes mechanical or over-used, with repetitive transitional phrases like 'Therefore' and 'However' appearing frequently. Additionally, referencing is occasionally imprecise, such as ambiguous pronoun usage ('that give him inormation'). Paragraphing is sufficient, but logical progression between sentences occasionally feels disjointed. These features fit the Band 6 descriptor well.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

The vocabulary used is adequate for the task, with attempts to incorporate less common items such as 'socail interaction', 'innovative ideas', and 'productivity'. However, there are noticeable word-form errors, inappropriate collocations ('late hour working', 'longer hour working'), and spelling mistakes ('socail', 'inormation', 'responsiblities', 'postively'). While these errors do not impede overall communication, they restrict the lexical score to Band 5.0, reflecting a limited yet minimally adequate range with frequent vocabulary errors.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

The writer attempts a mix of simple and complex sentence forms, demonstrating some control over structure. However, there are frequent grammatical errors, particularly regarding verb forms, article usage, and subject-verb agreement (e.g., 'worker should allowed', 'every individual that have to accomplish', 'their should be some relaxation', 'their fitness is also affecting'). While meaning is generally clear despite these errors, the high frequency of grammatical slips prevents the response from reaching a Band 6, placing it firmly at Band 5.0 due to frequent errors that cause some difficulty for the reader.

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