Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.0 · IELTS Academic Practice Accelerator · 2026-11-13

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)

Protecting enviorenment is crucial to save our nature. Many people do not recycle the garbage as much they should in many places. As a result, pollution, greenhouse effects has become significant problem for the world.

Many countries people are not very aware of the negetive impacts of waste material. Some government have not taken significant steps to reduce this problem. As a result, many people may not understand the damaging side of this issues. In many countries, recycling concept is not clear enough. But it causes many problems such as rising temperature, air pollution and severe health issues for human and other living things. environmenal Institutions and major commutnity are also failed to educate people about the effects of trash in some areas. People becoming reckless about this matter and wasting materials instead of recycling it. Major brands and companies have no limitation of producing waste from the government sides. However, with some steps, this problem can be solved.

There are few steps to overcome this problem, First, Government should be aware and taken some major steps to educate people and setting limitation to producing waste materials. There should be law for company and brands in terms of manufacturing products and they should start recyling the wastage insted of making more products for the

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 4.5

You identify several relevant reasons for low recycling, including limited public awareness, insufficient government action, and companies producing large amounts of waste. You also begin to suggest solutions, such as educating the public, setting limits, and requiring businesses to recycle. However, the response addresses the task only partially: the causes are listed rather than explained with specific examples, and the proposed actions are not developed. The final sentence is cut off, so the solution discussion remains incomplete. The response also contains 214 words, below the required 250, which limits the space available to answer both questions fully. Develop each main point with an explanation or example, and complete the solutions section.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.0

There is some basic organisation: an introduction is followed by a paragraph about causes and the start of a paragraph about solutions. Linking phrases such as “As a result,” “However,” and “First” help signal relationships between ideas. However, progression is limited because several points are placed together without clear explanation of how they connect, and the solutions paragraph ends abruptly. Some connections are also unclear, for example the shift from public awareness to environmental effects and then to companies’ production. Use separate, focused paragraphs for causes and solutions, and connect each point with a clear explanation. Completing the final paragraph would give the response a more coherent overall shape.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

You use relevant topic vocabulary, including “recycle,” “waste material,” “air pollution,” “greenhouse effects,” and “manufacturing products,” so the general subject is clear. There are also attempts to use more formal expressions such as “significant steps” and “damaging side.” However, the range is limited and some word choices or collocations are inaccurate, which can make meaning less clear: “greenhouse effects” would be more naturally expressed as “the greenhouse effect,” and “environmental Institutions” is not an appropriate phrase in this context. Spelling errors such as “enviorenment,” “negetive,” and “recyling” are noticeable. Check spelling carefully and learn common collocations for recycling and waste management.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

The response includes mostly simple sentence patterns and attempts some longer structures, for example “As a result, many people may not understand…” and “There should be law for company and brands…”. However, complex sentences are often not controlled accurately, and frequent errors can make the reader pause. Examples include “Many countries people are not very aware,” which needs a clearer grammatical relationship, and “Some government have not taken,” where the subject and verb do not agree. Articles and plurals are also often missing or inconsistent, as in “significant problem” and “for company and brands.” The final sentence is incomplete, further affecting accuracy. Practise accurate subject–verb agreement, articles, and complete sentence construction before adding more complex forms.

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