Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer
Overall Band Score: 5.5 · Cambridge IELTS 20 · 2026-07-31
IELTS Writing Task 2 question
Many aspects of the way people dress today are influenced by global fashion trends.
How has global fashion become such a strong influence on people's lives? Do you think this is a positive or negative development?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
Student answer (Band 5.5)
It is most debating topic everywhere. Everyone should have to look attractive and pretty that influenced the people to choose their style globally. It is very easy to find a fashion from every corner of the world by using social sites. Past few years global fastion trends rise eventually.
My point of view is tends to the positive side because I thought that adopting the foreign fashion trends give the more choice to the local people. In today's world everyone has their differnt taste in clothing so sometimes they prefer to adopt the fastion from another country. This development is very vast as people startes their new business in foriegn clothing and local people shows lots of love to this business. Moreover global fashion trend made the positive impact on the living style of local people.
This trend spread all over the world in very hurry. People mi
AI examiner evaluation
| Criterion | Band |
|---|---|
| Task Achievement / Task Response | 5.5 |
| Coherence and Cohesion | 5.5 |
| Lexical Resource | 5.5 |
| Grammatical Range and Accuracy | 5.5 |
| Overall | 5.5 |
Task Achievement / Task Response — Band 5.5
The response is significantly under the 250-word minimum requirement, which severely limits the development of ideas. While you attempt to address both parts of the prompt—explaining the influence of global fashion and providing an opinion—the ideas are underdeveloped and lack sufficient supporting examples. The essay ends abruptly, leaving the argument incomplete. To improve, you must expand your points with specific examples and ensure you meet the minimum word count to allow for a full exploration of the topic.
Coherence and Cohesion — Band 5.5
The essay lacks a clear structure. While there is an attempt at paragraphing, the ideas within the paragraphs are not logically sequenced or well-connected. Cohesive devices are largely absent or misused, making the flow of the argument disjointed. For example, the transition between the introduction and the body paragraph is abrupt. To achieve a higher score, you should use a wider range of linking words (e.g., 'furthermore', 'consequently', 'in contrast') and ensure each paragraph has a clear topic sentence that supports your overall position.
Lexical Resource — Band 5.5
The vocabulary is basic and repetitive, which limits your ability to express complex ideas. There are several spelling errors, such as 'fastion' instead of 'fashion', 'differnt' for 'different', and 'startes' for 'started'. The word choice is often imprecise, such as 'most debating topic' instead of 'highly debated topic'. To improve, focus on learning collocations and synonyms related to the topic of globalization and fashion, and pay closer attention to spelling accuracy.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy — Band 5.5
The response contains frequent grammatical errors that occasionally impede communication. There are issues with subject-verb agreement (e.g., 'global fastion trends rise eventually'), incorrect verb forms ('people startes'), and awkward sentence structures. The range of grammatical structures is very limited, consisting mostly of simple sentences. To improve, you should practice using a variety of complex sentence structures, such as relative clauses and conditional sentences, and focus on correcting basic errors in tense and word order.
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