Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Cambridge IELTS 20 · 2026-09-17

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)

Water is essential for every living thing including humans, plants, animals, and insects, unlike any other life form, humans require clean water to maintain their health, which is basic human right. However, providing free and unlimited supply of clean water in every household is logistically and financially unsuitable. Providing free water for daily basic use with additional charges on exccess usage would be better approach.

Clean water pevents multiple wateborn health diseases such as diarreha, stomach ache, chlorea, and consumption of hard metals present in water. For instance, if someone does not have access to purified water their next and only option will be to use non-potable water which might be contaminated and drinking that will eventually lead to bad health, if we picture this scenario where people do not have enough recources and cannot afford purified water, there is going to be huge a population of individuals that falls into that category. Moreover, low income families struggle to pay for basic neccesities, and to make their ends meet, access to clean water provides vunreble people without having to buy it everytime.

While it is basic requirement of every human, providing clean water free of cost is not feasable for multiple reasons. For example, treating water for purification, maintaining pipelines, and infrastructure requires masive funding and large amount of labour, for all of this to happen, authorities require constant financing which will not be possible to manage if water supply becomes free. Moreover, people tend to over use and waste the reserve when there are no price tags on it. so charging the service will save the resource from going to waste.

In conclusion, water is basic human right and everyone deserves access to clean water without worrying about the affordibility. Government should find a midway to this problem by making a mixed model of basic free water with charges for excess use.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response — Band 6.5

The student addresses all parts of the task by presenting a clear position on whether clean water should be provided free of charge to every home. The introduction establishes a nuanced stance, arguing that while basic usage should be free, excessive usage should incur charges. Main body paragraphs are utilized effectively to discuss both the health benefits of free water and the financial and logistical drawbacks of unlimited free access, such as maintenance and overconsumption. Ideas are generally well-extended and supported with relevant examples, such as the dangers of non-potable water and the need for infrastructure funding. However, some arguments could benefit from deeper elaboration to reach the highest bands. Overall, the task is successfully and thoroughly addressed.

Coherence and Cohesion — Band 6.0

The response is logically organized with a clear overall progression from the introduction to supporting body paragraphs and a concluding summary. Paragraphing is used appropriately to separate distinct ideas, such as health implications versus logistical and financial constraints. Cohesive devices are employed to connect sentences and paragraphs, using transition words like 'However', 'Moreover', and 'While'. However, referencing and cohesion are occasionally a bit mechanical or repetitive, and some sentences run together without adequate punctuation or conjunctions, such as 'so charging the service will save the resource from going to waste.' These minor flaws prevent the essay from achieving a higher band in this category, but the logical structure remains clear throughout.

Lexical Resource — Band 6.0

The student demonstrates an adequate vocabulary for the task, attempting less common items such as 'logistically and financially unsuitable', 'non-potable water', and 'infrastructure'. However, there are noticeable spelling errors throughout the response, including 'pevents', 'wateborn', 'diarreha', 'chlorea', 'recources', 'neccesities', 'vunreble', 'masive', 'feasable', 'over use', and 'affordibility'. While these spelling mistakes and minor word choice inaccuracies do not impede overall communication, their frequency prevents the lexical score from reaching Band 7. The vocabulary used successfully conveys the student's arguments, but greater precision and accuracy in spelling are required for a higher band.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy — Band 6.0

The student attempts a mix of simple and complex sentence forms, utilizing conditional structures and subordinate clauses effectively, as seen in 'if someone does not have access to purified water their next and only option will be to use non-potable water'. There are, however, several grammatical errors, missing articles, and punctuation issues throughout the text, such as 'which is basic human right' (missing article 'a'), 'exccess usage' (spelling/grammar), and comma splices or run-on sentences like 'For instance, if someone does not have access to purified water their next and only option will be to use non-potable water which might be contaminated and drinking that will eventually lead to bad health...'. Despite these errors, meaning is rarely obscured, and communication remains clear.

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