Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Cambridge IELTS 19 · 2026-10-19

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)

Emloyess should have shorter working days and longer weekends.

Many employeers believe that working hours shouldn't be reduced, as employee rarely have the time to finish their task, and 7 or 8 hours is barely enough to finalize anything. It is believed that shorter weekend is the better approach. Many days employees work longer hours and can barely finish. Having shorter working hours will be the same as people tend to waste time at work wether it is less hours or longer. For examply, if working hours were only five hours around two hours will be wasted on breaks, food and socializing, so it is safer to keep the hours as is.

In some countries around the world working hours and days have been reduced to 5 hours a day, 4 days a week, and it has been noticed that employee are more productive in these particulare companies. In my opinion, when employee have more time for their selves and their families, burnout from work will reduce, which will lead to better productivity and creatvitiy. Tasks done in five hours will be the same as in eight hours and in some cases might be even more, I believe prioritizing the wellbeing of employees will improve their focus, motivation and most importantly their loyality to the company.

From my 15 years of experience as an employee who works five days a week, I can personally confirm that not all eight hours in those five working days are productive, many hours are wasted through socializing with other staff, or doing other things. That is why I agree with reducing working days and, for many employees productivity during the day is five hours in total. I believe having less working days and longer weekends will definitly help in redusing employees burnout and demotivation, it will give workers more time for their personal life, either to work on developing their skills or taking extra degrees or simple to have more personal time for their friends and families.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.5

Your position is clear: you agree that working days should be reduced and weekends extended, and you support this with both a general example of shorter workweeks and your own 15 years of experience. The discussion is relevant and addresses the central question. The response also shows some development beyond simply stating an opinion, particularly when linking more personal time with reduced burnout, motivation and productivity. However, the opposing view in the first paragraph is not fully clarified, and the claim that employees waste time regardless of their hours is asserted rather than carefully explained. The examples about five-hour days and productivity would be more convincing with a specific country, workplace or concrete outcome. This gives the argument a sound basis, but some points remain less fully supported than others.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0

The response has a recognisable overall structure: it introduces the issue, presents a counterargument, develops the benefits of shorter schedules, and ends with your personal experience and position. Paragraphing helps separate these stages, and links such as “In my opinion,” “That is why,” and “which will lead to” make relationships between ideas visible. However, progression within paragraphs is sometimes uneven. The first paragraph moves from employers’ concerns to wasted time and then to breaks without clearly showing how each point supports the counterargument. The final paragraph repeats benefits already mentioned, including reduced burnout and more family time. Use clearer topic sentences and make each paragraph develop a distinct reason; more precise referencing would also help readers follow connections between claims.

Lexical Resource: Band 6.0

You use an adequate range of vocabulary for the topic, including “burnout,” “productive,” “prioritizing the wellbeing,” “motivation,” and “loyality to the company.” These choices help express the main argument and show attempts to use topic-specific language. Some wording is imprecise or unnatural, however: “shorter weekend” appears to mean a shorter working week, “time for their selves” is awkward, and “Tasks done in five hours will be the same as in eight hours” is not a natural way to express comparable output. Spelling errors such as “Emloyess,” “particulare,” “creatvitiy,” and “definitly” also reduce accuracy. Check spelling carefully and learn common collocations, such as “work fewer hours” and “spend time with their families,” to make your ideas more precise.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You attempt a mix of simple and complex structures, including conditional forms (“if working hours were only five hours”) and clauses expressing cause and result (“which will lead to better productivity”). Most ideas remain understandable, but some grammatical errors recur. For example, “employee rarely have” and “employee are more productive” have subject–verb agreement problems, while “Many days employees work longer hours” has an unclear sentence structure. The sentence beginning “From my 15 years of experience” also joins two independent ideas with a comma, creating a run-on sentence. There are some errors with articles and plural forms as well. Practise checking agreement and sentence boundaries, and divide longer sentences when they contain several separate claims. This would improve control while preserving your attempts at complex grammar.

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