Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Cambridge IELTS 20 · 2026-11-11

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 6.0)

The fundamental Human Right states that availiability of good water is one of the essential right of human being. The need for every household to have access to water supply without paying for it. I strongly disagree with the idea because people would see this as opporunity to misuse water whereas the cost for maintainance.

On the one hand,water is involved in our everyday activities. individuals can not function without water, similarly a non-electric vehicle would not work without fuel. When the accessiblity of water is very easy to people and no financial implication attached to it, they tend to use it carelessly. for instance,some families which are priivillege to free water supply when cooking or doing other housechores use much water than reqired because it does not accumulate in their bill whereas some would leave their tap running thereby misusing water.

On the other hand, government or management has the resposibilities of maintaining the borehole that supplies water to houses or offices,to ensure that there is steady supply of water. In as much as, water can not be overemphasied in human's need, it should be maintained in terms of treatment and repairs. However,Funding should be made available for this,which can be gotten if the executives include it on their tax but if viceversa how can money be generated for it which in turn limits water flow. for example,a community which have one boreholes that provides water to all the resident and eventually has a breakdown where will they get the cash to repair it. In addition when there is no electricity, there is no source of income to purchase diesel to power it.

In conclusion, water is a unique resource to humans.I believe that people charge to access it because the inapppropriete use and fiancial maintenance.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.5

Your position is clear: you disagree with free household water, and both body paragraphs give relevant reasons—careless use and the cost of maintaining supply. The examples of running taps and a broken community borehole help connect these points to practical situations. This covers the task well, but the support is uneven: the first paragraph mainly asserts that free access leads to waste, while the second gives more explanation about repairs, taxes and diesel. The relationship between charging households and ensuring maintenance could also be made more explicit, since you suggest tax funding as an alternative. To strengthen the response, develop the water-waste argument with a clearer explanation or example, and clarify whether you support affordable charges, taxes, or another funding model.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0

The response has a recognisable overall structure: an introduction, two contrasting body paragraphs signposted by “On the one hand” and “On the other hand,” and a conclusion. The main ideas are generally easy to follow, and examples are placed alongside the points they support. However, some connections are mechanical or unclear. The opening fragment, “The need for every household to have access to water supply without paying for it,” does not connect smoothly to the preceding sentence. In the second body paragraph, “However” and “In addition” do not clearly show how the ideas relate, and the long sentence beginning “However, Funding should be made available” is difficult to track. Use complete topic sentences and divide complex explanations into shorter, logically linked sentences.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use relevant vocabulary for the topic, including “financial implication,” “steady supply,” “treatment and repairs,” and “breakdown.” These choices help communicate the central concerns about waste and infrastructure. There is also some attempt to use less common language, but inaccurate spelling and word choice are noticeable and sometimes make the reader pause: “availiability,” “opporunity,” “maintainance,” and “inapppropriete” are examples. Some expressions are also unnatural, such as “the cost for maintainance” and “people charge to access it.” Aim for accurate forms and natural collocations, for example “maintenance costs” and “households should be charged for water.” Proofreading spelling and checking phrases in context would make your vocabulary more precise and reliable.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempt both simple and more complex sentence forms, including a comparison with “similarly” and conditional reasoning about funding and repairs. However, control is inconsistent, and several sentence-level errors make parts of the argument difficult to follow. The opening contains a sentence fragment (“The need for every household…”), while “individuals can not function” needs more accurate sentence construction and punctuation. Agreement and article use are also problematic in “a community which have one boreholes” and “one of the essential right.” Some long sentences combine several clauses without clear boundaries, particularly the sentence beginning “However, Funding should be made available.” Build accuracy by checking subject–verb agreement, singular and plural forms, and sentence boundaries, then use complex clauses only when their relationships are clear.

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