Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer
Overall Band Score: 5.0 · Cambridge IELTS 20 · 2026-09-27
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 argued that, having clean water is a basic human right. hence every household must have water supply line that is provided free of cost. clean Water is basic need and humans can not survive without it. however i think there should be few charges on it to conpensete the project's cost.
Many individuals believe they should be provided water that is drinkable for free of cost.
as they are the citizens goverment should take care of their basic needs. specially in countries where accessing water through rivers is limited due to long distance between their of home and water accessing point or no resource of drinkable water. for example african countrise are facing the threat of water sacarscity and people bearly have access to water. organizations needs to make nessecary arragments and build supply lines to every house so citizens should not starve for water.
Building clean water supply lines for every households required numerious amound of funds which many nations lack, however basic need should not be ignored specially for the elder citizens who strugle in physcial movenments. A small amount of fee should be implemented for everyone to pay and access water, because making this project sucessful would require great level of constraction and matrial are used and if given free some people waste clean water out of carelessness.
To conclude, some people demand the free clean water supply at their house because it is basic need of every human. however considering overall resource utlitzation small fee should be charged to balance the finanial constrant used.
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 response addresses the task by discussing whether clean water should be provided free of charge, presenting a clear position that while it is a basic human right, a small fee should be charged to cover project costs and prevent waste. Ideas are relevant and supported with examples, such as mentioning water scarcity in African countries and the need for funding. However, some arguments remain somewhat under-developed, placing the response solidly in the Band 6 category. The writer covers all parts of the prompt, but the extension of ideas lacks some depth, characteristic of Band 6 performance.
Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.0
The essay displays a coherent overall arrangement with a recognisable introduction, body paragraphs, and a conclusion. Paragraphing is attempted, though some paragraphs are extremely short or single-sentenced, such as 'Many individuals believe they should be provided water that is drinkable for free of cost.' Cohesive devices are sometimes faulty or mechanical, and sentence boundary errors (e.g., starting sentences with lower case letters like 'hence' or 'however i') disrupt the flow. Referencing is occasionally unclear. This corresponds to the Band 5 to 6 descriptors, leaning toward Band 5 due to basic and inadequate paragraphing and mechanical cohesion.
Lexical Resource: Band 5.0
The vocabulary used is adequate for the task, with attempts at less common items such as 'water scarcity', 'resource utilization', and 'financial constraint'. However, there are numerous spelling errors ('conpensete', 'goverment', 'specaily', 'countrise', 'sacarscity', 'bearly', 'nessecary', 'arragments', 'households', 'numerious', 'amound', 'strugle', 'physcial', 'movenments', 'sucessful', 'constraction', 'matrial', 'utlitzation', 'finanial', 'constrant') and word choice inaccuracies. These errors are frequent, though they do not entirely impede communication, placing the lexical control at a Band 5 level.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0
The writer attempts a mix of simple and complex sentence forms, such as conditional and concessive structures. However, grammatical accuracy is weak. There are frequent errors in punctuation and capitalization (e.g., starting sentences with lowercase letters like 'hence', 'however i', 'as', 'building'), subject-verb agreement issues (e.g., 'organizations needs', 'material are used'), and awkward phrasing (e.g., 'required numerious amound of funds which many nations lack'). These frequent errors can cause some difficulty for the reader, aligning with the Band 5 descriptors.
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