Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer
Overall Band Score: 5.0 · Cambridge IELTS 20 · 2026-09-22
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)
It is often argued that clean water is fundamental rights of human beings. Therefore every home should have a water supply that is free of cost. I am completly agree with this statements.
On the one hand, clean water is a basic human right beacuse it's bring better health for human life and provide them numerous benefits. It play an essential role in every individuals life by helping them in daily activities. For instance, without water the life of people in dangered. Fresh water healing their health problem and save them from communicable disease which was caused by unhealthy water. Hence, fresh water helps an individuals life and make them free from all types of disease and make their body fit and fine.
On the other hand, every house should have water supply that is provided free of cost. Government and local municipality have to provide fresh water to every home. It's a basic responsibility of them to seek the demands of an individuals and provide them clean and fresh water. Fresh water make environments clean which is directly affect on human, animals and tress health. There is lots of advantage of clean water in human life. Firstly, it's helps to save from dangerous communicable disease like nimoniya, fewer and so on. Secondly, it's helps to make the body of human being fit and fine.
In conclusion, fresh water is most important and fundamentals rights of human beings and governments should provided water supply to each and every individuals house with free of cost. If people was healthy than they give their full affort for the development of society and country.
AI examiner evaluation
| Criterion | Band |
|---|---|
| Task Achievement / Task Response | 5.5 |
| Coherence and Cohesion | 5.0 |
| Lexical Resource | 5.0 |
| Grammatical Range and Accuracy | 5.0 |
| Overall | 5.0 |
Task Achievement / Task Response — Band 5.5
The student addresses the prompt by clearly stating a position agreeing with the proposition that clean water is a basic human right and should be provided free of charge. Main ideas are presented, such as health benefits and government responsibility, meeting the core requirements of Task 2. However, the development of these ideas is limited and repetitive. For instance, the points about health, communicable diseases, and fitness are reiterated across paragraphs without expanding into deeper analysis, specific policy implications, or economic counter-arguments. This places the response comfortably at Band 6, where the task is addressed with relevant ideas, but some parts are under-developed or somewhat repetitive.
Coherence and Cohesion — Band 5.0
The essay has a recognizable overall structure with an introduction, two body paragraphs representing opposing or distinct supporting angles, and a conclusion. Paragraphing is used appropriately to separate ideas. However, cohesion within and between sentences is often faulty and mechanical. The student relies on basic connectors like 'On the one hand', 'On the other hand', 'Firstly', and 'Secondly', but transitional flow is disrupted by grammatical errors. Referencing is also sometimes unclear, such as 'It play an essential role' or 'which was caused by unhealthy water'. Overall progression is present, but mechanical linkage and referencing flaws align the response with Band 5.
Lexical Resource — Band 5.0
The lexical resource is limited but minimally adequate to communicate the writer's basic arguments. The student uses common vocabulary related to the topic, such as 'clean water', 'human right', 'government', and 'health problem'. However, there are numerous word choice and spelling errors throughout the text, including 'completly' (completely), 'statements' (statement), 'dangered' (endangered), 'healing' (heal), 'tress' (trees), 'nimoniya' (pneumonia), 'fewer' (fever), and 'affort' (effort). These noticeable errors and limited lexical range point directly to a Band 5 descriptor level, where vocabulary is adequate for the task but frequent errors cause some difficulty for the reader.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy — Band 5.0
The student attempts a mix of simple and complex sentence structures, but control over grammar is weak. There are frequent grammatical errors in almost every sentence, including subject-verb agreement issues ('clean water is fundamental rights', 'fresh water helps an individuals life'), article misuse ('the life of people', 'a basic responsibility of them'), and tense inconsistencies ('If people was healthy than they give...'). Punctuation is also basic. Because simple and complex forms are attempted but frequent errors persist and occasionally hinder smooth readability, the response best matches the Band 5 descriptors.
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