Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.5 · Cambridge IELTS 20 · 2026-10-28

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)

Nowadays, individuals around the world are increasingly influenced by global fashion trends when to choose what to wear.This stronge influence has developed because of social media, international brands and celebrity culture.From my perspective, it's a negative development due to forget of it's own-cultural norms and excessive spend of money on highly expensive brands.

As we all know that worldwide fasion trends make very firm impacts on peole's lives due to some reasons.Firstly, now people are living in such an era where social media affects the thinking of their living very strongly.They spend their free time on scrolling digital medial like instagram and facebook etc, so they are remain in touch with their their international celebrity and see that whey are used to wear.Futhermore, they also well known about the culture of their favourite person who lives in some other country.So, they want to copy them and what to look like that because they are greadly infuenced by them which make the global fashion very common and affects the people's lives.

As per my perception, i think its a bad development because it changes the people in so many ways.Now people are going far away from their tradition and culture by adapting the norms of their choosed personality and aslo wears the dress as their favourite person wears or as their culture want.Morever, they spend their lots of money on their favourite international person brand .For example, as Alia bhutt ( an Indian Actress) promote the Gucci brand so many people buy such expensive clothes of Gucci brand because of their favourite personilty Alia bhatt.

To sum up these, as today is a social media era and people are greatly influenced by thier favourite personilty and want to wera like that so they spend their huge amount of money on that and adopt the norms of them which make it a negative development.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0

You address both parts of the prompt: you explain the influence of social media and celebrity culture, and you clearly judge the development negatively. The example of Alia Bhatt promoting Gucci helps illustrate how celebrity endorsement can encourage people to buy costly brands. However, the explanation of how global fashion spreads is more developed than the discussion of its effects. The claim that people move away from their traditions is relevant, but it is asserted rather than supported with a specific example or explanation of why this matters. Develop each main point with a clearer cause-and-effect link, and make the example illustrate the cultural impact as well as spending.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0

The response has a clear overall structure: an introduction, a paragraph explaining the influence, a paragraph giving your opinion, and a conclusion. The main ideas generally appear in a logical order, and signposts such as “Firstly,” “Furthermore,” and “To sum up” help guide the reader. At times, however, the links between ideas are mechanical or unclear. In the second paragraph, several points about social media, celebrities, and copying their clothes run together, while “they” has an uncertain reference. The conclusion also repeats the introduction and body rather than drawing the argument together. Use clearer sentence boundaries and refer explicitly to people, celebrities, or brands to strengthen progression.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

You use relevant vocabulary for the topic, including “global fashion trends,” “social media,” “international brands,” “tradition and culture,” and “expensive clothes.” These choices make your main meaning understandable. However, spelling errors and inaccurate or unnatural word combinations are noticeable throughout, including “fasion,” “digital medial,” “firm impacts,” and “spend their lots of money.” Some repetition of “favourite person” and “influenced” also limits the range. Aim to learn accurate topic-related collocations and check spelling carefully; for example, describe trends as having a “strong influence” and people as “spending large sums on designer clothing.”

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempt both simple and more complex sentences, including a reason clause with “because” and a result clause with “so.” This gives the response some structural variety, and the overall meaning can usually be followed. However, errors in sentence construction, agreement, articles, and punctuation recur. For example, “Nowadays, individuals … when to choose” does not form a correct clause, and “they are remain in touch” combines incompatible verb forms. The opening “As we all know that” also creates an incorrect clause structure. Review how to form complete clauses and use consistent verb patterns, and separate sentences with appropriate punctuation. More accurate control of these patterns would make your ideas easier to read.

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