Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.0 · Cambridge IELTS 20 · 2026-10-17

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)

Dress is one of the most basic necessity of the individuals. In the present era, global fashion trends has influenced numerous aspects on the way the people are dressed. In what aspect, it has put such a huge influence on individuals lives.

On one hand, its cons are as follow. First of all, the dresses that are based on fashion trends are very expensive as compared to locally. Not everyone, can afford such clothes. Therefore, it is a financial loss of the individuals. Furthermore, if the people are influenced by the fashion trends changes the culture and tradition of one's state. Therefore, the culture may lost in such country. For example, the traditional dress of Pakistan is shalwar-qamees. If our individuals are influenced by these tends our tradition may be eradicated from the world.

On the other hand, following are the pros fro this statement. Firstly, people wears those dress that are in fashion nowadays. Therefore, if the individuals goes to some international functions they look attractive. Moreover, today clothes are more comfortable from the past. It has cast such a strong influence on people's lives in such a way that in contemporary era everyone use social media. Social media has a great effect on our lives. The influencers on these platforms are very famous and are liked by many followers around the world. They are paid by the companies and thay make ads that influence our lives.

To put it in a nutshell, it has a negative effect on our lives because all the individuals are not financially stable. Our tradition is at the risk of chaos if we get influenced by these things.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.0

You address both questions by discussing possible reasons for fashion’s influence, including social media influencers and international events, and by concluding that the development is negative. However, the response only partially fulfils the task: the explanation of how global fashion became influential is brief and appears mainly in the second body paragraph, while the first paragraph focuses on disadvantages rather than causes. Several points, such as clothes being expensive and traditional dress being at risk, are asserted but not fully explained or supported. The Pakistan example is relevant, but its connection to global trends could be made clearer. State your position more directly in the introduction, then develop the causes and your evaluation with specific explanations and examples.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.5

The response has an introduction, two body paragraphs and a conclusion, and signposting such as “On one hand” and “On the other hand” helps readers recognise the contrast. However, the overall progression is not always clear: the first body paragraph discusses disadvantages, while the second combines benefits with the main explanation of social media’s influence. This makes the answer to the first question feel delayed. Some linking phrases are repetitive or awkward, including repeated uses of “Therefore” and “Moreover,” and references such as “these things” are vague. Organise the body around the task’s two questions—causes first, then whether the influence is positive or negative—and use clearer links between each claim and its explanation.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

You use some topic-related vocabulary, including “global fashion trends,” “traditional dress,” “social media,” and “influencers,” so the subject is generally clear. However, the range is limited and several word choices or collocations are inaccurate, which sometimes makes the meaning less precise. Examples include “financial loss of the individuals,” “culture may lost,” and “risk of chaos”; these do not express the intended ideas naturally. There are also spelling errors such as “tends” for “trends” and “thay” for “they.” Aim to use more precise phrases for affordability, cultural change and influence, and check spelling carefully. Replacing repeated general terms such as “things” with specific nouns would also improve clarity.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempt both simple and more extended sentences, including a conditional example beginning “If our individuals are influenced…,” and the overall meaning can usually be followed. However, the range is limited, and errors occur frequently in basic sentence patterns and in attempts at complex structures. For example, “Dress is one of the most basic necessity” has a number-agreement error, while “global fashion trends has influenced” has subject–verb disagreement. In “the culture may lost,” the verb form is incomplete, and “people wears” and “individuals goes” also show agreement problems. Some sentence boundaries and commas are awkward, as in “Not everyone, can afford such clothes.” Practise accurate agreement, articles and verb forms before adding more complex clauses.

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