Band 4.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 4.0 · IELTS Summit Mastery · 2026-09-21

IELTS Writing Task 2 question

Tourism is one of the fastest growing industries and contributes a great deal to economies around the world. However, the damage tourism can cause to local cultures and the environment is often ignored.

To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

Student answer (Band 4.0)

visitors travel

pay for accommodation food clothing shoppong and so on

employment oppturnity specially local shops

government get great deal of tax revenu

economy risen they spend tax money on infrastructure and transport

partially agree cause tourism harm culture by spreading false information to social media or tourist when they know local culture and their traditional practsies after that they make their own narritive which sometime hurt someone belif

enviorment for travel they use vehicles such as taxi autos which cause global warmimg becouse of fuel burning

hower it is not often ignored becouse in some places specially historical and in temples they do not allow photograph and any videography

nowdays government incresing public transport such as buses metros so that everyone can travel throuht it which overcome the problem pollution

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response — Band 4.0

The student attempts to address the prompt by discussing both the economic benefits of tourism and the negative impacts on culture and the environment. However, the response is written entirely in note form, lacking full sentences, clear paragraph structure, and proper essay development. Crucially, the text contains only 131 words, severely falling short of the mandatory 250-word minimum specified for Academic Task 2. Because the ideas are heavily truncated, undeveloped, and the length requirement is severely breached, the score for this criterion is heavily penalised, resulting in a Band 4.0.

Coherence and Cohesion — Band 4.0

The response is structured as disjointed bullet-point fragments and short phrases rather than connected paragraphs with logical progression. Cohesive devices are largely absent, and transitions between ideas are abrupt. For instance, the shift from economic benefits to cultural damage uses a simplistic 'partially agree cause' without standard essay transitional phrases or clear referencing. Paragraphing is non-existent, and the ideas do not flow logically as a coherent piece of academic writing. This reflects the descriptors for Band 4.0.

Lexical Resource — Band 4.0

The vocabulary is very basic, repetitive, and heavily restricted. The student relies on elementary words such as 'travel', 'food', 'money', and 'shop', alongside frequent spelling and word-form errors like 'oppturnity' instead of opportunity, 'revenu' instead of revenue, 'practsies' instead of practices, 'narritive' instead of narrative, 'belif' instead of belief, 'enviorment' instead of environment, 'hower' instead of however, and 'incresing' instead of increasing. These lexical limitations and errors constrain the communication, aligning with the Band 4.0 descriptors.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy — Band 4.0

The submission fails to demonstrate a control of sentence structures, consisting entirely of fragmented notes and incomplete clauses rather than full grammatical sentences. There is a complete absence of complex grammatical structures. Punctuation and capitalization are entirely ignored throughout the response. Frequent errors in grammar and word forms prevent any evaluation of sentence-level accuracy, placing the performance firmly at Band 4.0.

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