Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.0 · Cambridge IELTS 20 · 2026-11-10

IELTS Writing Task 2 question

Access to clean water is a basic human right. Therefore every home should have a water supply that is provided free of charge.

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)

As we all know, water is one of the natural essencial in our daily lives, we use water for drinking , cooking , cleaning and many more. Access to clean water is one of the crucial issues nation wide at the moment, which people are encourage to help maintain and preserve clean water sources. Several arguments cerculating online that access to clean water is basic human right; I agree. But every home should have a water supply that should be charge free, is complicated and understanable. But in the practical side, if it's free of charge we cannot gurantee that people will have an equal disctribution of water suply as we do have diffrent ways of needs and usage.

For some people, water can be their source of income, there are various companies that they do improve the qualiy of the water, provide people accordingly depending on their needs and as well as contribute to the economy. There are various private organization that is obviously uses more water just like farms, hospitals , schools and comparing it to a normal household, is not practical for the nation to trive.

So, I do believe that access to clean water is a basic human right. But, I do not agree to the idea that every home should have a water supply that is free of charge. People should be more practical and considerate interms of equality and maintaining a better life by being united with the usage of natural resources that has a reasonable price to pay to help the economy to florish.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 4.5

Your position is identifiable: you support access to clean water as a right but oppose making every household’s supply free. You also attempt to justify this view through concerns about fair distribution and the water needs of farms, hospitals, and schools. However, the reasons are only briefly stated, and the link between charging households and achieving equal distribution is not clearly explained. The point about companies improving water quality and contributing to the economy also needs a specific example or clearer connection to the question. The response is 235 words, below the required 250; the 26 words copied from the prompt are not counted. Develop each main reason with explanation and an example, and make the distinction between a basic right to water and free provision more explicit.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.0

The response has a recognisable structure: an introduction, a paragraph about water users and organisations, and a concluding statement that restates your position. Linking expressions such as “For some people” and “So” help signal movement between points. However, the overall progression is limited: the second paragraph introduces companies and large institutions without clearly showing how these examples support the argument against free household water. The opening also contains several ideas in one long sentence, making the line of reasoning harder to follow. Organise the body around distinct reasons, use a separate sentence to explain each example, and make references such as “it” and “their needs” more precise.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

You use some relevant topic vocabulary, including “basic human right,” “equal distribution,” “natural resources,” and “economy,” which helps communicate the subject of the essay. There are also attempts to express more specific ideas about water use and provision. However, the range is limited and several spelling and word-choice errors make parts of the response difficult to understand, such as “essencial,” “cerculating,” “disctribution,” and “florish.” Some phrases are also unnatural or imprecise, including “source of income” and “in the practical side.” Check spelling carefully and choose collocations that express your intended meaning directly; for example, distinguish water suppliers from organisations that use large quantities of water.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempt both simple and more complex sentence forms, including a relative clause in “issues nation wide at the moment, which people are encourage to help…” and a conditional idea beginning “if it’s free of charge.” However, complex sentences are often faulty, and errors in sentence boundaries, agreement, and verb forms occur frequently enough to make some points difficult to follow. For instance, the opening joins two independent clauses with a comma, while “people are encourage” and “organization that is … uses” show problems with verb form and agreement. The sentence beginning “But every home should have…” is also incomplete or incorrectly joined. Use shorter, complete sentences first, then build complexity with accurate clauses and punctuation.

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