Band 4.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 4.0 · Cambridge IELTS 20 · 2026-09-25

IELTS Writing Task 2 question

In many countries, primary and secondary schools close for two months or more in the summer holidays.

What is the value of long school holidays?

What are the arguments in favour of shorter school holidays?

Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

Student answer (Band 4.0)

currently in many nations ,primary and secondary schools end for two months of more often during the summer breaks .

firstly one of the sunificit benift of long vaction is that they children will be able to take a longer break and have a time for their informal enducation.children who has the ability to carried out some of his domestics activites at home , going to fram land ,cleaning the house household , doing some lunadry are tend to be more helpful to their parents

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 3.5

The response fails to meet the minimum length requirement of 250 words, containing only 85 words. As a result, the task can only be addressed partially. While the student attempts to introduce the value of long holidays by mentioning informal education and domestic activities such as going to farm land and cleaning the household, the second prompt regarding arguments in favour of shorter holidays is completely omitted. Ideas are severely underdeveloped due to the extremely short length of the text. In accordance with the assessment criteria, a severe penalty must be applied for under-length, and the lack of coverage across all parts of the prompt restricts the score to a band 3.5.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 4.0

The text lacks proper paragraphing and organization, appearing as a single short block with basic introductory elements. Cohesive devices are minimal and rudimentary, relying on simple connectors like 'firstly'. Referencing is frequently unclear, such as the pronoun shifts in 'that they children will be able to take a longer break and have a time for their informal enducation.children who has the ability to carried out some of his domestics activites'. Logical progression is interrupted by disjointed clauses and missing transitions between ideas. Consequently, the structural flow does not meet the standards for higher bands, placing this criterion at a band 4.0.

Lexical Resource: Band 4.5

The vocabulary used is very basic and repetitive, with frequent spelling and word-choice errors that occasionally impede understanding. Examples include 'sunificit' for significant, 'benift' for benefit, 'vaction' for vacation, 'enducation' for education, and 'lunadry' for laundry. The student attempts some less common vocabulary items like 'domestic activities', but widespread inaccuracies in spelling, morphology, and collocation prevent the text from reaching a higher band. The lexical range is limited and minimally adequate for expressing simple thoughts, warranting a band 4.5.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 4.0

The response demonstrates a very limited range of grammatical structures. Simple sentences are heavily error-prone, and attempts at complex structures result in severe grammatical inaccuracies. Notable errors include subject-verb agreement issues ('children who has the ability'), incorrect verb forms ('to carried out', 'are tend to be'), and flawed sentence boundaries or fragments. Punctuation and capitalization are also poorly controlled, with spaces before punctuation marks and uncapitalized sentence beginnings. Due to the high frequency of basic grammatical errors that cause difficulty for the reader, this criterion is placed at a band 4.0.

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