Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer
Overall Band Score: 5.0 · IELTS Academic Practice Accelerator · 2026-09-17
IELTS Writing Task 2 question
Smoking can cause serious illnesses and should be made illegal.
To what extent do you agree?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
Student answer (Band 5.0)
many individual belive that Smoking can effect serious illnesses and many people want smoking should be made illegal. I strongly agree with view beacuse smoking cause a significant sickness in human body Like mounth cancer lung cancer. the government could illeglize the smoking and decrease the marketing and selling of smoking
On one hand, Smoking can cause different ailment and effect on human boday and distinct disease in living organ body like main causing in lungs they demage and the mounth and suffing a cancer to mounth. For example around the world almost high ratio in smoking pepole. certain cancer occure form smoking like in india many people suffering from mouth cancer.Moreover people suffer from TB and other respiratory disoders. In my oping opnion the smoking can cause alomst differnet disease in the human body and make the helth sickness.
On the other hand, i strongly belive that the government should take a action to control ban the high level of smoking transport or import form other region. beacuse the smoking make people illnesses and efffect the human body and make ailment. For instance, the Government stop the company how manfacturing the smoking and also ban. give adivce to peple do exerice and other halth activity instead of smoking
Overall the Smoking can causes a serval and serious illnessses in human body which damnage a main organ of human body like lung crate hart attack due to the reasion of high smoking. While the government shuold be made illegal and ban in shops. do not sell the smoking.
AI examiner evaluation
| Criterion | Band |
|---|---|
| Task Achievement / Task Response | 5.0 |
| Coherence and Cohesion | 5.0 |
| Lexical Resource | 5.0 |
| Grammatical Range and Accuracy | 5.0 |
| Overall | 5.0 |
Task Achievement / Task Response — Band 5.0
The response addresses the prompt by clearly stating a position that smoking should be made illegal due to severe health consequences. Key ideas such as lung cancer, mouth cancer, and respiratory disorders are introduced, along with calls for government action like banning imports and restricting shops. However, the development of these ideas is limited and repetitive, with over-generalised statements like 'almost high ratio in smoking people' and vague examples such as 'in india many people suffering from mouth cancer' without further elaboration. While all parts of the task are addressed, the lack of fully extended and well-supported arguments places this response firmly at Band 5.
Coherence and Cohesion — Band 5.0
There is some basic organisation attempted through standard transitional markers such as 'On one hand,' 'On the other hand,' and 'Overall,' although these are sometimes misapplied. Paragraphing is present, but within paragraphs, the progression of ideas is frequently disrupted by repetitive phrasing and disjointed sentence structures. Cohesive devices are used mechanically and often inaccurately, such as 'reasion of high smoking' and 'how manfacturing the smoking'. Referencing is occasionally unclear, which impedes the smooth flow of reading. These features correspond closely to Band 5 descriptors.
Lexical Resource — Band 5.0
The vocabulary range is limited and minimally adequate for discussing the topic of health and smoking. The student attempts some less common terms like 'respiratory disorders' and 'manufacturing', but these are accompanied by frequent spelling and word-choice errors, such as 'belive', 'effect' instead of 'affect', 'mounth', 'illeglize', and 'helth sickness'. These errors cause some difficulty for the reader and demonstrate a lack of precision in word formation and collocation, which is characteristic of Band 5.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy — Band 5.0
The writer attempts a mix of simple and complex sentence forms, but structures are frequently faulty. Examples include 'many individual belive that Smoking can effect serious illnesses' and 'the Government stop the company how manfacturing the smoking'. There are frequent errors in verb forms, article usage, punctuation, and subject-verb agreement throughout the text, such as 'smoking can cause alomst differnet disease' and 'the government shuold be made illegal'. These persistent structural errors frequently cause difficulty for the reader, placing the grammar score at Band 5.
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