Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer
Overall Band Score: 5.5 · IELTS Momentum Workout · 2026-09-14
IELTS Writing Task 2 question
In recent years, through the internet, air travel, trade and popular culture, globalisation has rapidly increased. Many people believe that the increased interaction between nations through globalisation is a good thing.
Discuss this view and give your own opinion.
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
Student answer (Band 5.5)
In the contemporary era, globalization plays a pivotal role to increases the economy of individual nation, Technological advancements, comfertable air travel, fast international sevices, and shared media have interconnected with each country of the world. Majority of people agreeing this rapid globalisation as a positive development and encourage international co-operation with good economical growth. This essay will articulate the agreement of this notion.
To commence with the first agreement point, globalisation highlight the immensive economic benefits.To be more precise, international trade allows developing nations to attract foreign investments, to create employment opportunities, and developing higher infrastrature in mega cities. For instance, when trade barriers declined. It has increased access to high-quality products and services at reasonable prices. consequently, digital communication and affordable travel have accelerated the exchange of ideas, medical research will collaborate and connected with the world.
On the other hand, this will be help to the developing countries, who have low GDP. Further more on this point, many nations from the world have low GDP. However, globilization helps to those nation and boosts their economy easily through the increasing of import-export across two countries. To exemplify, Srilanka, Bangladesh have still developing countries with lower GDPs. With the intaracting with developed countries like U.S.A. and Russia, can boosts their economy and also maintained good relationship amid two nations.
To recapitulate, though globalization have chance to badly affect on cultural authanticity. However, it has more advantages than the others . Enhanced global interaction promotes understanding, economic innovation, and solutions of complex global issues. Therefore, I firmly believe globalisation is a good move to protect vulnerable sectors, economical growth of an individual nation, as well.
AI examiner evaluation
| Criterion | Band |
|---|---|
| Task Achievement / Task Response | 6.0 |
| Coherence and Cohesion | 6.0 |
| Lexical Resource | 5.0 |
| Grammatical Range and Accuracy | 5.0 |
| Overall | 5.5 |
Task Achievement / Task Response — Band 6.0
The response addresses all parts of the task by discussing the view that globalisation is positive and providing a clear personal opinion. The writer establishes a clear position from the introduction ("I firmly believe globalisation is a good move...") and maintains it throughout. Ideas are presented, such as economic benefits, developing nations' GDP growth, and cultural considerations. However, the development of ideas tends to be repetitive, especially regarding low GDP nations like Sri Lanka and Bangladesh in the third paragraph, which restricts the response to a Band 6. The arguments are relevant and supported with general examples, but lack the deeper extension and sophisticated nuance required for higher band levels.
Coherence and Cohesion — Band 6.0
The essay displays a coherent overall arrangement with clear paragraphing, dividing the introduction, two body paragraphs representing supporting arguments, and a conclusion. However, cohesion is often faulty or mechanical. The use of transitional phrases such as 'To commence with the first agreement point,' and 'Further more on this point,' feels unnatural and awkward. Referencing is also occasionally unclear, for instance, in sentences like 'On the other hand, this will be help to the developing countries,' where pronoun reference lacks precision. While the logical progression is generally maintained, the frequent awkward mechanical links keep the response firmly at a Band 6 level.
Lexical Resource — Band 5.0
The vocabulary used is adequate for the task, attempting some less common lexical items such as 'contemporary era,' 'foreign investments,' and 'infrastructure.' However, there are numerous noticeable lexical and spelling errors that detract from the overall quality, such as 'comfertable' instead of 'comfortable,' 'sevices' instead of 'services,' 'immensive' instead of 'immense,' and 'authanticity' instead of 'authenticity.' Collocations are also occasionally strained, as seen in phrases like 'globalisation highlight the immensive economic benefits' and 'intaracting with developed countries.' These recurring inaccuracies demonstrate the characteristics of Band 5, where a limited range and noticeable errors occasionally impede smooth reading.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy — Band 5.0
The writer attempts a mix of simple and complex sentence structures, but control over grammar is inconsistent. There are frequent grammatical errors throughout the text, including verb form and agreement issues such as 'globalisation plays a pivotal role to increases' and 'when trade barriers declined. It has increased access...' (fragment/punctuation error). Other errors include 'globalization helps to those nation' and 'though globalization have chance to badly affect on cultural authanticity.' While meaning is generally conveyed despite these errors, the high frequency of inaccurate complex structures prevents the writing from achieving a Band 6 score.
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