Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.5 · IELTS Momentum Workout · 2026-11-10

IELTS Writing Task 2 question

Concern for the environment is growing and more and more people are choosing to recycle. But some people suggest that recycling is not enough. They believe we need to consume less.

Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.

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

Student answer (Band 5.5)

Environmental worries are growing and more and more individuals are preferring to recycle. However, others suggest that recycling is insufficient. Less consumption is the solution believed by many people. From my perspective, I would completely support the point that waste reprocessing is not enough to resolve the concerns related to environmental problems. We need to limit our consumption to control them, such as plastic that is the major concern of our planet.

Waste reprocessing is one of the most common and crucial way to overcome the issue related to global atmosphere, like air pollution, land pollution, and water pollution. When we reuse objects made by any material so actually we would stop wasting into trash because throwing things into garbage after using it for one time lead to increase in pollution. For instance, the cold drink companies make it rule for every retail shops, to return their plastics bottles after drank by their customers and often collect them individually from local streets. If they not do this the major impact will be record in the climate and it should affect the companies revenue because recycling process is much cheaper than producing.

Others, think that we require to restrict our consumptions like, using too many plastic bags and drinking too much cold drinks. Since, if the demand of products were increased so the companies should definitely making more items and if we restrict our consumption the manufacturing companies automatically reduce its production. For example, the manufacturer of the plastics bags, so if the demand were minimized by public there should obviously reduction in numbers of processing.

In conclusion, restricting expenditure on products can mitigate the harmful effects on the environment, as well as reusing items can also reduce environmental concerns.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0

You address both views and state a clear position: recycling helps, but reducing consumption is also necessary. The discussion of recycling explains reuse and gives an example involving drinks companies collecting bottles; the second body paragraph links lower demand with reduced production. These are relevant points, but some are less fully developed than others. The recycling example is difficult to follow, and the claim that recycling is cheaper than producing is not clearly connected to the environmental argument. The consumption paragraph would be stronger with a specific, realistic example and a fuller explanation of how reduced production lowers environmental harm. Your conclusion restates both approaches, but could make your own preference more explicit and decisive.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0

The response has a clear overall structure: an introduction, separate paragraphs for the two views, and a conclusion. This makes the main line of discussion easy to identify. You also use linking expressions such as “However,” “For instance,” and “In conclusion” to signal relationships between ideas. At times, though, cohesion is mechanical or unclear. The opening of the second body paragraph, “Others, think,” is awkwardly punctuated, while “Since” begins a fragment rather than a complete explanation. In the recycling example, the sequence from returning bottles to company revenue is not clearly connected. Use pronouns and linking phrases with clear references, and make each paragraph’s examples follow logically from its main point.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use a relevant range of topic vocabulary, including “recycle,” “pollution,” “manufacturing,” “demand,” and “production,” and the meaning is generally understandable. There are also attempts at less common phrasing, such as “mitigate the harmful effects.” However, several choices are unnatural or imprecise, which limits clarity: “global atmosphere” does not accurately describe the environmental issue, and “restrict our consumptions” is not idiomatic. “Waste reprocessing” is repeated where simpler, more natural wording would work better. Some collocations, including “record in the climate,” make the intended meaning difficult to infer. Aim for precise, natural combinations of words and avoid replacing familiar terms with unusual expressions unless you are confident they fit the context.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempt both simple and complex sentence forms, including conditional relationships such as “if we restrict our consumption” and a relative clause beginning “that is the major concern.” However, complex sentences are often not controlled accurately, and errors sometimes make the relationships between ideas difficult to follow. For example, “When we reuse objects … so actually we would stop” combines incompatible clause structures, while “throwing things … lead to increase” has problems with agreement and the infinitive pattern. Other examples include “If they not do this” and “the companies automatically reduce its production,” where verb forms and agreement are inaccurate. Practise building complete sentences around one main clause, then check subject–verb agreement, articles, and verb forms in each clause.

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