Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.0 · Cambridge IELTS 20 · 2026-10-20

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)

Water is essential for every one life providing water is a basic manners for human right. Therefore free of costs water for every household. From my prospective, I am disagree with this statement follow up more in paragraph.

The main reasons for providing water is vital living in earth its help alots in living too long. Governement should strict rules to apply people to imposing money on water and providing free of costs in all over the world. Moreover, specially the local needy people have alot of issue for dusty water and give clear crystal water. For example, pooresst citizens resort the drinking water in rivers pond and many places they give illness due to present harmful microbes and bacteriac and its caused severe stomach issues.

However, Government cannot give free water they use water consumption for the storage of future. When clean water is freely avalible, people may tend to use indiscriminately, aassuming that there are not limitation on its use. For instance, using clean water for washing cars or watering gardens is unappropriate and lead to significant waste, contributing to scarity of fresh water for those who come after us.

In conclusion, i firmly agree to give clean everone have a right Nevertheless it should not providing free of costs, as this could encourage wasteful practices and result in a lack of clean water for future generation.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.5

You address the question and give reasons on both sides, including the risk that free water could be wasted and the need to protect supplies for future generations. The examples about people relying on rivers and ponds, and water being used to wash cars or gardens, are relevant. However, your position is unclear: the opening says “I am disagree,” while the conclusion says you agree that everyone has a right to clean water but oppose free provision. Clarify this distinction from the start and support each main point more fully. The response also contains 229 words, below the required 250, so the discussion is limited and some ideas remain underdeveloped. Add explanation or a specific example to develop your argument about how water should be funded or allocated.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.0

There is a basic paragraph structure: an introduction, a paragraph supporting access, a contrasting paragraph about waste, and a conclusion. “Moreover,” “However,” and “For instance” help signal relationships between ideas. However, progression is not consistently clear because the introduction’s position conflicts with the conclusion, and the first body paragraph moves abruptly from water’s importance to government rules and then to poor communities’ water sources. Some links are also awkward or unclear, such as “Therefore free of costs water for every household.” Organise each body paragraph around one main claim, explain it, and then give its example. Use linking phrases only where they accurately show the relationship between sentences.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

You use some topic-related vocabulary, including “harmful microbes,” “water consumption,” “indiscriminately,” and “wasteful practices,” which helps communicate the subject. However, the range is limited and several noticeable word-choice, collocation, and spelling errors make parts difficult to understand: “basic manners for human right,” “dusty water,” “pooresst citizens,” and “scarity of fresh water.” Some phrases appear to be direct translations rather than natural English. Choose precise expressions such as “a basic human necessity,” “contaminated water,” and “water scarcity,” and check spelling carefully. Building a small set of accurate topic collocations will make your argument clearer without requiring more complicated vocabulary.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempt both simple and more complex sentence forms, including a conditional structure in “When clean water is freely avalible, people may tend to use indiscriminately” and a reason-result clause about illness. However, errors are frequent, and some sentences are fragments or difficult to follow. For example, “Therefore free of costs water for every household” has no complete verb, while “The main reasons for providing water is vital living in earth” has an unclear structure and agreement problem. There are also recurring issues with articles, verb forms, and sentence boundaries, as in “I am disagree” and “it should not providing.” Practise complete subject–verb sentences, then check agreement and verb patterns when editing.

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