Band 6.5 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.5 · IELTS Academic Practice Accelerator · 2026-11-14

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 6.5)

Due to the advancement of science and technology, people are now consuming way more goods than before. But in many countries people are not very keen about recycling the used materials due to the lack of awareness and the availability of easy replacements.

To this day many people do not believe in climate change because they were not educated about it. When people do not know about the side effects of not recycling, they tend to care less about recycling. It is perticularly true for plastics. People use plastics everyday but hardly care about recycling them. People are not well educated about the dangers of throwing plastics into the environment. Also, the fact that used plastics can be very easily be replaced by buying new ones, have made people to care even less about recycling.

The best way to grow awareness among people about the importance of recycling is by educating them. This is why nowadays we see that children all over the world are taught about the importance of protecting the environment and how recycling can help to protect the environement. But this is not enough. In order to motivate people to recycle their goods, the government should impliment national policies. This policies should promote recycling of materials and put harder restriction on illegal dumping of goods. If people know more about how not recycling effects their surrounding and endangers their future, they will be more careful before throwing away their used materials. In the end, it is the mass awareness of people that can only make a difference.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.5

You address both parts of the question and maintain a clear focus on why recycling is limited and how this could change. The explanation that people lack awareness, alongside the convenience of replacing used plastics, is relevant, and you propose education and government policies as responses. These points support a coherent answer, but some are more fully explained than others: the role of easy replacements is mentioned briefly, while the proposed policies are not illustrated with a specific measure or example. The claim that people do not believe in climate change also needs a clearer link to recycling behaviour. To strengthen the response further, explain how a particular policy—such as accessible collection points or incentives—would address the causes you identify.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.5

The response has a clear overall arrangement: an introduction, a paragraph explaining causes, and a final paragraph presenting solutions. Ideas generally progress logically, and linking expressions such as “Also,” “This is why,” and “In the end” help show relationships between points. However, some connections are broad or repetitive. For example, the final paragraph returns several times to awareness and its effects without clearly separating education from enforcement as distinct solutions. The reference in “This policies” is also unclear because the noun is plural while the determiner is singular. Use more precise referencing and organise the solutions into clearly developed steps, explaining how each one responds to a cause raised earlier.

Lexical Resource: Band 6.0

You use an adequate range of vocabulary for the topic, including “climate change,” “illegal dumping,” “national policies,” and “protecting the environment.” These choices make the main ideas clear, and you attempt some topic-specific phrasing. However, several expressions are imprecise or repetitive, such as “care less about recycling,” “used materials,” and “goods,” which recur where more exact terms could distinguish waste, packaging, and recyclable items. There are also spelling errors, including “perticularly,” “environement,” and “impliment,” and some awkward word combinations, such as “harder restriction.” These do not prevent understanding, but greater accuracy and variety would make the argument more precise. Review spelling and choose collocations that sound natural in environmental-policy contexts.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 6.0

You use a mix of simple and complex sentence forms, including subordinate clauses in “When people do not know…” and “If people know more…”. Most sentences communicate the intended meaning, and the overall argument remains easy to follow. Some grammatical errors persist, particularly with agreement and verb forms. For example, “the fact … have made” should use a singular verb, and “This policies” has a mismatch between determiner and noun. In “can be very easily be replaced,” the verb construction is also faulty. These errors are noticeable but rarely obstruct meaning, which is consistent with this level. To improve, check subject–verb agreement and review each sentence’s verb pattern, especially when a clause contains a long subject.

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