Band 4.5 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 4.5 · Cambridge IELTS 20 · 2026-10-28

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 4.5)

Being able to use clean water is a basic human right. Free of cost water supply is the necessity of evey house. In this eassy i will share my thought of it in a position way.

For living healty, bathing purely, drinking healthy we obviously depend on clean water. If we want to eat anything, we need clean water to wash that food. If we want to live disease free, we should bath regularly with clean water. If we want to drink water, we drfinitely need clean water to drink. So we can say without pure water, we can to imagine our life. Even pure water is the keen of our healty life.

On the other hand, we find than most of the places of the world face difficulty to supply people clear water. Due to world environmental pollution, collecting pure water for regular use of life becoming difficult day by day. For an example, in my house, we do not drink supply water which come from government because that water have a very strong smells of dirt. So we have to buy water from th

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 4.0

You identify the importance of clean water and give relevant reasons, including hygiene, food preparation and avoiding disease. The example about your household buying water because the government supply smells unpleasant also relates to the issue. However, the response does not clearly develop whether you agree or disagree with providing water free of charge, and it does not explain how this should work or address possible costs. The introduction promises to share your view, but the position is not stated clearly. The response also contains only 186 words, below the required 250, so the argument and supporting ideas remain very limited. State your position directly, then develop it with specific explanations and examples before concluding.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 4.5

The response has a basic paragraph structure: an introduction, a paragraph about the need for clean water, and a paragraph beginning with “On the other hand” that introduces supply difficulties. This gives the reader some sense of organisation. However, progression is limited: the second paragraph repeats the need for clean water through several similar “If we want…” sentences, while the final paragraph ends abruptly at “buy water from th”. The contrast signalled by “On the other hand” is not fully explained, and there is no conclusion to connect the discussion back to your position. Use paragraphs to develop distinct points, link each example to its main idea, and finish with a clear summary.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

You use some relevant vocabulary for the topic, including “basic human right,” “environmental pollution,” “supply,” and “disease free.” These choices help communicate the general subject. However, the range is limited and several inaccurate or unnatural expressions make parts difficult to understand, such as “bathing purely,” “the keen of our healty life,” and “strong smells of dirt.” Spelling errors such as “evey,” “eassy,” “healty,” and “drfinitely” are also noticeable. Aim for accurate, natural collocations and check spelling carefully. For example, you could describe water as “safe to drink” or “essential to public health,” and say that the supply has “an unpleasant smell.”

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempt both simple statements and conditional structures, for example, “If we want to eat anything, we need clean water to wash that food.” This shows an effort to vary sentence forms, and the main topic is generally understandable. However, the range remains limited, and frequent errors in sentence construction, agreement, articles and verb forms affect clarity. Examples include “we can to imagine our life,” “that water have,” and “collecting pure water … becoming difficult.” The opening also uses sentence fragments or incomplete phrasing, such as “Free of cost water supply is the necessity of evey house.” Practise complete sentence patterns and check subject–verb agreement and verb forms; then combine related ideas without repeating the same structure.

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