Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.0 · IELTS Academic Practice Accelerator · 2026-11-11

IELTS Writing Task 2 question

In many countries, people do not recycle their rubbish as much as they could.

Why do you think this is? What can be done to change this?

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

Student answer (Band 5.0)

Most of people argue that recycling is one of the most integral part of life which maintain to work life balance while other people think about do not waste recycling.I strongly believe recycling is a good way to shape our country's economic that it is causes of lack of awareness and envirnoment factors along with economically practice.

First and foremost, the most noticeable that people do not want to recycle their waste due to lact of education. Moreover,They are not willing about waste management solution.In our country, for instance, most of times in the past people did not worked on recycling basically thay had no know about awaerness for recycling, how to recycle their waste and how to make from them.That's why, people did not wanna to recycle their waste.In current situation, the government is give awareness and educate to people about waste management. For example, the punjab goverment is facilitate to people doing work on waste management and recycling must be part of life because we make more things from them.

On the other hand, some people could recycling their waste because of they know about how waste affect on environment and country's economic.Furthermore, they are significant plays role in globally. In china, for instance, recycling is a big part of success as well as economically improvement. Additionally, china has introduce advance technology across the world, which recycling is privotal role in country's economic,Therfore china make different things such as electric city, bottles, food items and electric gadgets.

To conclude, everyone has no eduction about recycling their waste ,likewise most of people could change our environment through recycling.In response, that's a good point to consider and plant of changes can occure in our society through recycling like better environment, quality of different things so on.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.0

You address both questions by identifying limited education or awareness as a reason for low recycling and mentioning government education and recycling initiatives as possible responses. The examples about Punjab and China show an effort to make the discussion concrete. However, the response only partially develops the task: the proposed changes are not clearly separated from the causes, and it is difficult to tell exactly what practical steps governments or individuals should take. The opening also gives an unclear position, referring to “other people” without explaining their view, and the conclusion introduces broad benefits rather than summarising a developed answer. Explain the causes directly, then give specific measures—such as convenient collection points, clear sorting instructions, or incentives—and show how each could help.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.0

The response has an introduction, two body paragraphs and a conclusion, and phrases such as “First and foremost,” “On the other hand” and “To conclude” signal stages of the discussion. However, the overall progression is not consistently clear. The second body paragraph shifts from people’s knowledge of environmental effects to China’s economic success and technology, without clearly explaining how this answers why people fail to recycle or what should change. Some linking expressions are inaccurate or create an unintended contrast, especially “On the other hand.” References such as “them” in “make more things from them” are also unclear. Organise one paragraph around causes and another around solutions, and use linking words only when their logical relationship is clear.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

You attempt topic-related vocabulary, including “waste management,” “recycling,” “environment” and “economic improvement,” and you try to use less common expressions such as “integral” and “significant.” However, the range is limited by repeated use of “recycle,” “people” and “waste,” while several word choices or collocations make meaning difficult to follow. Examples include “economically practice,” “most noticeable that,” and “recycling is a big part of success.” Spelling errors such as “envirnoment,” “awaerness” and “goverment” also reduce clarity. Build a more accurate set of topic phrases and check spelling; for example, use “lack of public awareness,” “recycling rates,” and “environmental impact” where appropriate.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempt both simple and longer sentences, including clauses introduced by “because,” “which” and “that.” However, complex sentences are often faulty, and frequent errors in verb forms, agreement, articles and sentence construction can make the meaning difficult to follow. For example, “the government is give awareness” needs a correctly formed verb, while “China has introduce” has an incorrect participle. The opening sentence also combines several ideas without a clear grammatical structure. Punctuation and spacing are inconsistent, as in “Moreover,They” and the comma splice in the sentence about China’s economy. Practise building accurate short sentences first, then combine them using one clear subordinate clause at a time.

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