Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.5 · Cambridge IELTS 19 · 2026-11-05

IELTS Writing Task 2 question

It is sometimes possible to pay somebody to do things you don't want to do, or don't have time to do, for example, household chores or looking after children.

Is this a good way of providing work for others?

Should people do these things themselves?

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

Student answer (Band 5.5)

In this modernized world, the activity of paying to someone and getting household things done or sending children to nursery is common. From my perspective, it is beneficial for both, the one who gets an income from the job and on other hand a person gets extra spare time for curriculum activity.

Nowadays, everyone is tied up with their busy life schedule and surviving with a burden of responsibilities. It is now getting difficulty to manage both, office work along with household stuff due to which people need help of someone who can share a hand in fragile chores. To illustrate this, every individual is earning a booming income to make their daily routine more reliable in ways where they will hire a person. The harsh reality of today's generation is that they will spend their time by visiting places such as gym, ignoring the old rituals where doing activities like moping the house floor while sitting down on your knees was the best exercises performed at free of cost.

In contrast to this, people who are poor or illitrate will agree to work anything they find to fulfill their basic needs. For instance, a woman will inquiry for work in her nearby buildings, expecting if someone will hire her as a "Nanny" or "Housekeeper". Through which she can get a small amount of money to feed their children daily. Moreover, they do not meet the requirements to work in professional field because they are less educated. They are gifted by a pure sole that they can relie on the monthly income.

To conclude, I believe it is considered as a good way of providing work for others as they do not have to stay hungry due to shortage of money and similarly, people who are rich gets their own comfort and ease by delegating work for others.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.0

Your position is clear: you consider paid help beneficial both to people who need assistance and to workers who need income. You address the employment question with the example of a woman seeking nanny or housekeeping work, and you explain why busy people may delegate chores. However, the second question—whether people should do these tasks themselves—is only touched on indirectly through the contrast with older household routines and gym visits. That comparison is unclear and does not fully explain when doing chores oneself might be preferable. Several claims, such as “everyone” being busy or workers being “poor or illiterate,” are broad and not sufficiently supported. Develop both sides of the question with clearer reasons and a specific example.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0

The response has a coherent overall arrangement: an introduction states your view, two body paragraphs present reasons, and a conclusion restates your position. Paragraphing helps distinguish the benefits to people hiring help from the benefits to workers. You also use signposts such as “To illustrate,” “In contrast,” and “To conclude.” At times, however, the links between ideas are mechanical or unclear. For example, “In contrast to this” does not clearly identify what is being contrasted, and the sentence about gym visits and “old rituals” interrupts the discussion of busy schedules. Some references, including “Through which,” are not clearly attached to a complete idea. Make each paragraph’s central point explicit and use transitions that show the precise relationship between claims.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You attempt a range of topic-related vocabulary, including “household chores,” “delegating work,” “monthly income,” and “professional field,” and the main message is generally understandable. There are also noticeable word-choice, collocation, and spelling problems that sometimes make meaning less clear. For instance, “curriculum activity” does not express leisure or personal activities, “share a hand” is not a natural collocation, and “fragile chores” is an unsuitable description. “Illitrate,” “moping,” and “sole” are misspelled or incorrectly chosen in context. Some expressions, such as “booming income,” also do not fit the intended meaning. Aim for accurate, natural phrases such as “free time,” “lend a hand,” and “routine household tasks,” rather than using ambitious vocabulary without checking its meaning.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You use both simple statements and longer sentences with clauses, for example the sentence beginning “Nowadays, everyone is tied up…” and the explanation of why people hire help. This shows an attempt to vary sentence structure, but complex sentences are often faulty, and errors occur frequently enough to make some passages difficult to follow. Examples include “paying to someone,” “it is now getting difficulty,” and “people who are rich gets,” which show problems with grammatical patterns, verb forms, and agreement. The sentence beginning “Through which she can get…” is a fragment, while “a person gets extra spare time” has an unclear article and phrasing structure. Practise building complete sentences with accurate subject–verb agreement and verb patterns, then check punctuation and clause connections.

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