Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer
Overall Band Score: 5.0 · Cambridge IELTS 20 · 2026-09-13
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 5.0)
Fashion trends are rapidly exchanging in recent decdes. Global fashion trends have several impact on on drsssing sense of today's people. This extreme influnce of global fashion on people's live is no dout because of social media. I belive this trend is very negative because it lose the cultural aspect and some unethical issue. In this essahe we will discuss how global fashion trend impact cultural aspect and cause of unethical issue.
In one hand, global fashion trends have extensive imapact on cultural dressing sense. These trends are mostly spread by social media content creator those promote mixture of new fashions. For example, contentent creator add dressing ideas by own which dont care about cultural values, to promote their videos.
Moreover, global fashion trends also became cause of unethical dressing sense. Mostly, influncer promote short dresses in global trends to get more views. Some trends are very volgural which mostly promote the attraction of body part rathan new style of dressing.
In conclusion, however global fashion trends provides new style of dressing whcih is sometime psoitive but mostly is has negative impact. Mostly fashion trends include modernization cultural dressing and body revealing dressing which make nagetive impat on society. Gobal fashion trends can be used in postive wat too such as promoting cutural in diffrent modification but not losing in cultural sense.
AI examiner evaluation
| Criterion | Band |
|---|---|
| Task Achievement / Task Response | 5.0 |
| Coherence and Cohesion | 5.0 |
| Lexical Resource | 5.0 |
| Grammatical Range and Accuracy | 5.0 |
| Overall | 5.0 |
Task Achievement / Task Response — Band 5.0
The response addresses both parts of the prompt, discussing how global fashion influences people through social media and providing an opinion that this is a negative development due to cultural erosion and unethical trends. However, the ideas are underdeveloped and the arguments lack sufficient depth or specific examples. Furthermore, the response falls short of the minimum length requirement, containing only 222 words instead of the required 250 words. This under-length impacts task completion and restricts the ability to fully extend ideas, leading to a band score of 5.0.
Coherence and Cohesion — Band 5.0
The text is divided into an introduction, two body paragraphs, and a conclusion, showing some basic structure. However, paragraphing is underdeveloped, and the transition between ideas can be abrupt. Cohesive devices are used mechanically and sometimes inaccurately, such as 'In one hand' instead of 'On the one hand', and referencing is occasionally unclear. There is a lack of smooth progression between sentences, resulting in a somewhat disjointed reading experience. This aligns with the Band 5 descriptors for coherence and cohesion.
Lexical Resource — Band 5.0
The vocabulary used is relatively basic and repetitive, with frequent spelling errors such as 'exchanging' instead of 'changing', 'decdes' instead of 'decades', 'drsssing' instead of 'dressing', and 'volgural' instead of 'vulgar'. While the student attempts some less common terms like 'modernization' and 'unethical issue', the high frequency of inaccurate word choices and misspellings impedes communication in places. The lexical range is minimally adequate for the task, best reflecting a band score of 5.0.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy — Band 5.0
The writing contains a mix of simple and somewhat complex sentence forms, but attempts at complex structures are frequently faulty. There are widespread grammatical errors throughout the text, including subject-verb agreement issues ('Global fashion trends have several impact'), missing articles, and incorrect prepositions ('impact on cultural aspect'). Punctuation and word formation errors also occur regularly. These frequent errors cause noticeable difficulty for the reader, placing the response firmly in the Band 5 category for grammatical range and accuracy.
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