Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.5 · Cambridge IELTS 19 · 2026-09-17

IELTS Writing Task 2 question

Nowadays famous people are photographed by professional photographers everywhere they go. Some people say this is a good thing because the public are interested in their lives. Other people think that photographers are wrong to follow famous people.

Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.

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

Student answer (Band 5.5)

Nowdays, entertainment industry in not limitied to movies, dramas or what being displayed in televisions and theaters. All those celebrities are becoming a part of common people's life. As people are curious to know about their whereabouts, their lifestyle and upcoming projects. By looking at this demand, the paparazzi are always chasing them whether on airports, focal- point towns and streets. From prespective of some people, it is good as they want to know about their every move whereas there are also exist some people are entirely infavor of paparazzi system.

People are carrying the whole world with themselves by having a smart phones. Each and every person is having an account on social networking sites which entirely a means of having information about loved one's life and all those big stars apperaing on big screen. Furthermore, these big stars are always try their best efforts to reamin iin people's eye by posting some stuff on their accounts whether their routine, sneak peak into their lifes and motivational stuff. By doing all this, they become a part of ordinary people's life. In between this, the role of paparazzi comes into effect by soothing their souls by providing them photos and small video clips of their real life.

On the hand, it is an invasion in their privacy. Everyone goes through from different phases of life so does celebrities. Additionally, there are some events in their life which they want to keep as private but due to presence of all those photogarphers chasing them everywhere from the moment they step out of the house to the moment they come back. Consequently, their life's are like an open book which people are having an entire access to judge their every move in form of love, hate, criticism.

According to me ideology, everyone has equilant right for privacy. If they are inviting the photographers in their life's it is their will solely, otherwise cemeras should not follow them everywhere.Overall, out of curousity people are eagerly looking forward to celebrities life and their routines which is somewhere proves to be disturbing element for both the parties.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response — Band 6.0

The student addresses all parts of the task by discussing both the positive view of public interest and the negative view of privacy invasion, while also providing a personal opinion in the conclusion. The ideas are generally relevant, but some points are slightly repetitive or under-developed, such as the discussion on celebrities managing their own social media profiles. The position is clear throughout, although the expression of ideas sometimes lacks precision. Overall, the response meets the requirements for Band 6 because it addresses all parts of the task with relevant ideas, even though some arguments could be extended further and supported with more specific examples.

Coherence and Cohesion — Band 6.0

The response presents a coherent overall arrangement with a clear attempt at paragraphing, separating the introduction, body paragraphs representing different views, and the conclusion. However, cohesion is sometimes faulty and mechanical, such as the abrupt transition 'On the hand' instead of 'On the other hand'. Referencing is occasionally unclear, and logical progression within paragraphs is disrupted by grammatical awkwardness. Paragraphing is used, but internal flow needs smoother cohesive links. This aligns well with the Band 6 descriptor where cohesion is sometimes mechanical and referencing is not always clear.

Lexical Resource — Band 5.5

The student uses an adequate range of vocabulary for the task, attempting less common items such as 'entertainment industry', 'whereabouts', and 'invasion in their privacy'. However, there are noticeable spelling and word-choice errors throughout the text, such as 'Nowdays' instead of Nowadays, 'limitied' instead of limited, 'prespective' instead of perspective, 'apperaing' instead of appearing, and 'equilant' instead of equivalent. While these errors do not severely impede communication, they restrict the lexical score to Band 5.5, bridging the gap between adequate range and noticeable inaccuracies.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy — Band 5.0

The student attempts a mix of simple and complex sentence forms, but frequent grammatical errors occur, particularly with verb forms, prepositions, and sentence fragments. Examples include 'entertainment industry in not limitied', 'there are also exist some people', 'Each and every person is having', and 'life's are like an open book'. There are also run-on sentences and punctuation slips, such as the final sentence of the essay. Although communication is maintained, the frequent errors in grammar and structure place this response firmly at Band 5.0.

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