Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Cambridge IELTS 18 · 2026-11-09

IELTS Writing Task 2 question

The most important aim of science should be to improve people’s lives. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement? Give reasons for your answers and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

 

Student answer (Band 6.0)

Scienes has played an important role in improving day to day life of human beings, whether an advancement in medicine, technology or transportation and I strongly believe that the aim of science should be practical in terms of improving people's lives.

Science is something on which our daily life depends upon, and the main agenda behind the improvement is to make people's life more convenient and easy. For example, In a house we have an oven that heats up food easily and quite early rather than baking it in a proper clay where it requires wood, fire and special location. Furthermore, In medicines, Science also made quite a progress in curing the diseases that were not even possibliy cured, take an example of tuberculosis which remained uncured tlate 19th centure can now easily be cured because of science invention.

Moreover, not only this, science is also becoming a source of saving the earths atmosphere as well. People are encouraged to shift towards electric vehicles in order to move towards zero emissions that pollutes the ecosystem, also it became possible to discover the universe because of the inventions by science that human is able to figure out the world beyond its own.

Many people argue that Science should be a source of knowledge and cognitive skills improvement, but the knowledge and improvement will go waste if it is unable to provide practical solution and make things easy for one's life.

In conclusion, people can have different view of science whether its progression in daily life or using it as a source of knowledge only, and the main concept is to applying the knowledge to make life easier.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0

Your position is clear from the introduction: you strongly agree that science should improve people’s lives. You support this with relevant examples involving household technology, medical treatment, electric vehicles and space exploration, and you acknowledge an alternative view that science can develop knowledge. This addresses the task, but some points are more fully explained than others. The oven example illustrates convenience, while the claims about electric vehicles and discovering the universe are mentioned briefly without showing how they relate to your central argument. The tuberculosis example is relevant but its historical claim needs clearer explanation. To strengthen the response, develop fewer examples in more detail and explain why practical benefits should be science’s most important aim, rather than its only aim.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0

The response has a recognisable structure: an introduction, a main discussion, a counterargument and a conclusion. Paragraphing helps the reader follow the overall direction, and transitions such as “Furthermore,” “Moreover” and “In conclusion” signal the stages of your argument. However, the second paragraph contains several different examples in one long block, so the links between household convenience, medicine, environmental protection and space exploration are not always clear. Some transitions also feel mechanical, and the conclusion repeats the general position without drawing together the strongest reasons. Group related examples into focused paragraphs and use clearer references to show how each example supports your main claim. This would make the progression more consistently easy to follow.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use a relevant range of topic vocabulary, including “advancement,” “cognitive skills,” “zero emissions” and “ecosystem,” which helps you discuss science and its effects. There are also attempts at more specific phrasing, such as “practical solution.” However, several word choices and collocations are inaccurate or awkward, including “main agenda behind the improvement,” “quite early,” and “the earths atmosphere.” Spelling and word-form slips such as “Scienes,” “possibliy” and “centure” also reduce precision. These issues do not prevent the reader from understanding your main ideas, but they make the expression less natural. Build accuracy by checking spelling and learning common combinations such as “the main purpose of scientific progress” and “reduce emissions.”

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You attempt a mixture of simple and more complex sentence forms, including a concession in “Many people argue that…” and a reason clause beginning “because of…”. The overall meaning is generally understandable, but some sentences contain several grammatical problems that make the relationships between ideas less clear. For example, “Science is something on which our daily life depends upon” has an incorrect preposition pattern, while “the main concept is to applying” uses an incorrect verb form. There are also issues with articles, agreement and sentence boundaries, as in “an oven that heats up food easily and quite early rather than baking it…” and the long sentence beginning “People are encouraged to shift…”. Practise accurate clause construction and verb patterns, then divide long sentences where needed.

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