Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.5 · Cambridge IELTS 20 · 2026-10-16

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 5.5)

Major part of the earth is covered with water, and it is the main source for every individuals for survival. Every household should receive free water supply. Some people agree with the term, whereas other oppose it. I agree, that every residents in the society should not be charged for this natural source but there should be few policy for the usage of water.

One of the major reason, individuals living in rural area have scarity of water. In these area the rivers are polluted with industrial wasteage, due to such drought people have to travel far places to obtained fresh water or purified water for cooking and drinking. In result, many people suffer from disease like dengue and malaria. For example, residents who earn less do not have money to buy purified water, alternatively they are prone to use the polluted water and causes to spread of illness in the area.

On the other hand, in urban area houses obatin unlimited water supply from the goverment. People living in cities they keep on using water throughout the day, therefore their is shortage in water. For instance, childern play in water, housewifes washing clothing keep the tap running. In such cases, the goverment should launch a policy like providing water in some limited time period with some cost, due to which every residents will learn to save water.

In conclusion, although water is a basic need of every human being and is obatined from nature freely. The society should be eduacted with certain rules and regulation to save water and stopped starvation health issues among all human being.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0

Your position is clear: you support free access to water, while arguing that usage should be controlled. You address both the human need for clean water and the risk of waste, using examples about rural communities and urban households. These are relevant points, but they are not equally developed. The rural paragraph links polluted water with illness, though the examples of dengue and malaria are not clearly explained as consequences of unsafe drinking water. The urban paragraph gives concrete examples of waste but then proposes charging for limited-time supply, which sits uneasily with your main argument that water should be free. Clarify that essential household water remains free and explain how restrictions or charges would apply to excessive use.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0

The response has a recognisable structure: an introduction, two contrasting body paragraphs and a conclusion. The progression from rural access problems to urban overuse is generally easy to follow, and signposts such as “On the other hand” and “In conclusion” help orient the reader. However, some connections are mechanical or unclear. “In result” does not express the relationship naturally, and the shift from supporting free water to recommending supply “with some cost” makes the argument harder to track. Some references, such as “these area” and “such cases,” do not point clearly to a specific idea. To improve, make each paragraph’s main point explicit and use linking phrases that show the precise relationship between cause, example and conclusion.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

You use vocabulary relevant to the topic, including “polluted,” “industrial waste,” “purified water,” “shortage” and “policy,” so the reader can understand the main ideas. There are also attempts to express specific concepts, such as “limited time period.” However, the range and control are limited by repeated basic wording and noticeable spelling, word-form and collocation errors. Examples include “scarity,” “wasteage,” “obatin,” “goverment” and “eduacted”; phrases such as “travel far places” and “spread of illness” are also unnatural. These errors sometimes slow the reader, even when the intended meaning is recoverable. Build accuracy by checking spelling and learning common combinations such as “access to clean water” and “spread of disease.”

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempt both simple and more complex sentences, including a conditional idea in “there should be few policy for the usage of water” and a cause-and-effect sentence beginning “due to such drought.” This gives the response some structural variety, and the overall meaning is usually understandable. However, errors in agreement, articles, plurals and sentence construction recur. For example, “every individuals” and “every residents” do not agree in number, while “Some people agree … whereas other oppose it” has a parallel agreement problem. The sentence “People living in cities they keep on using water” also combines two subjects awkwardly. Practise accurate noun phrases and subject–verb agreement, and revise long sentences so each has a clear subject and grammatical structure.

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