Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

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

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)

Nowadays many countries have their waste not to recycle and its is global issue for countries for people and also harmful for their health goverment should take serious action to solve this crucial problem. This problem is mainly cause by lack of public awareness and less recycling facilities. However goverment should solve this by the help of educating people and providing more recycle bins.

There are many reason that people do not recycle their waste the formost reason is that people are not aware about harmful gasses and production which cause their health and enviroment. Moreover they throw the rubbish on road or in water from that many bacteria have increase and lack of education information that goverment have introduced garbage bags and bin to protect the enviroment from this types of waste.Goverment should do public awareness to protect enviroment and give knowlede to citizens taht which waste where to recycle feom this enviroment get clean and decrease in health issue

Several types of step are taken by goverment to recycle their rubbish firstly they can organse campaign in school and collage from young people can know about taht it is harmful if they do not recycle their waste. This awareness give the information about how to seperate this kind of waste and different type of plastic material in general bin thia give an significant amount of enviroment pollution and increase in health issue. In addtion small financial incentive should also provide by local authorities to encourage the people. For example,Goverment should give more information about plastic material where to waste and give some awareness this leads to rubbish into waste

In conclusion, It is our duty to recyle this types of waste and goverment are also doing this kind of thing to reduce the waste from countries

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.5

You address both parts of the question: you identify limited public awareness and a lack of recycling facilities as causes, then suggest education campaigns, more bins and financial incentives. These are relevant ideas, and the school and college campaign is a useful example. However, the explanations are often brief or unclear. For instance, the point about people not knowing the health and environmental effects is relevant, but the link between rubbish, bacteria and health is not explained clearly. The proposed incentives are also mentioned without explaining how they might change people’s behaviour. Your conclusion restates a general duty to recycle but does not clearly summarise the main causes and solutions. Develop each point with a clearer explanation and a specific example.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.5

The response has an overall structure, with an introduction, a paragraph about causes, a paragraph about solutions and a conclusion. This gives the reader a basic sense of direction. However, progression within paragraphs is uneven, and several ideas run together, particularly in the second paragraph, where awareness, littering, bacteria and government information appear without clear links. Connectors such as “Moreover,” “However” and “For example” are used, but some do not accurately show the relationship between the ideas that follow. The solutions paragraph also shifts from campaigns to sorting waste, incentives and plastic disposal without a clear sequence. Use one main idea per paragraph, organise supporting details around it, and make references such as “this” or “they” clearly identify what they mean.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

You use some topic-related vocabulary, including “public awareness,” “recycling facilities,” “financial incentive” and “local authorities,” which helps communicate the subject. However, the range is limited and several word choices or combinations are inaccurate or unclear, sometimes making the intended meaning difficult to follow. For example, “production which cause their health” does not clearly express the harm you mean, and “recycle their rubbish” is repeated without much variation. There are also frequent spelling errors, such as “enviroment,” “goverment” and “seperate,” which reduce accuracy. Build a reliable set of topic vocabulary and check spelling; choose precise expressions for causes and effects, such as “harmful emissions” and “damage to public health.”

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 4.5

You attempt some longer sentences and use clauses with “because,” “which” and “if,” but control is limited, and many sentences contain errors that make the relationships between ideas hard to understand. For example, “There are many reason that people do not recycle their waste the formost reason is…” joins two complete ideas without suitable punctuation or a linking structure. Agreement and verb forms are also problematic in “many bacteria have increase,” while the opening sentence contains several clauses without clear boundaries. Sentence patterns are often repetitive, and punctuation is inconsistent. Practise writing shorter, complete sentences first, then combine related ideas using accurate subordinate clauses. Check subject–verb agreement, verb forms, articles and sentence boundaries during revision.

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