Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.0 · IELTS Academic Practice Accelerator · 2026-10-05

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)

In many countries, people do not recycle their household waste as they could. This is mainly because people are not aware the recycle process and because recycling facilities more convinent. However, Governments and individuals can take several steps to improve the situation.

There are the two reasons of why people don't envolve in the recycling process. The first reason is the lack of knowledge about the how the harmful diseases they are spreading without doing recycling their household garbage. The second reason may be the lack of different types of dustbin present everywhere in crowded place like schools, city centre or any famous tourist support. If there are no separate bins for paper, plastic, and glass near people's home, they may simply put everything into one rubbish bin.

There are several ways to encourage people about eh recycling process with the help of government. Firstly, Governments and individuals can work together to encourage the people about the recycling process by placing dustbin most of the places. The Second step government can take that they can start the giving education to the students howt he recycling process are benficial, and what the adavantages and disadavantages they have, How they can be more dangerous? This is the more convinent way to solve the problem.

In conclusion, people are not more often that they can recycle their household waste to prevent from yourself with the dangerous disease. If government take steps to encourage the people about recycling process it can be more helpful to the individuals.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 4.5

The response addresses the prompt by attempting to answer both parts regarding why people do not recycle and what can be done about it. However, the ideas remain limited and under-developed, with repetitive points about placing dustbins and educating students. Furthermore, the length requirement was not met: the essay contains 245 words, falling short of the 250-word minimum, with 8 words copied directly from the prompt not counted. This places the response firmly at a lower achievement level where the task is addressed only partially, and the position is not always clearly sustained throughout the text.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.5

The essay displays some basic organization with clear paragraph breaks separating the introduction, reasons, solutions, and conclusion. However, there is no clear overall progression of ideas, and the flow is frequently hindered by repetitive structures and mechanical linking words such as 'The first reason', 'The second reason', and 'Firstly'. Cohesive devices are sometimes inaccurate or overused, and referencing between sentences is not always clear, as seen in the abrupt transitions within the body paragraphs. Paragraphing is attempted, but internal logical progression needs significant strengthening to achieve a higher standard.

Lexical Resource: Band 4.5

The vocabulary used is limited and barely adequate for the task. The writer relies heavily on basic, repetitive terms such as 'recycle', 'process', 'government', and 'rubbish'. There are noticeable lexical errors, including word-formation and collocation mistakes like 'not aware the recycle process', 'convinent' (convenient), 'envolve' (involve), and 'tourist support' (spot). These errors and limited word choices cause some difficulty for the reader and prevent the effective expression of more complex ideas, keeping the lexical score at a basic level.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

The writer employs a limited range of sentence structures, and attempts at complex sentences are frequently faulty, such as in the clause 'how the harmful diseases they are spreading without doing recycling their household garbage'. There are frequent errors in grammar, including missing prepositions, incorrect verb forms ('If government take steps'), and issues with articles and plurals. These errors are recurrent throughout the text and frequently cause difficulty for the reader, reflecting a grammatical control that matches a lower-intermediate tier.

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