Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.0 · IELTS Complete Catalyst · 2026-11-09

IELTS Writing Task 2 question

In some societies, stress is now regarded as a major problem, and it is thought that people suffer from more stress than they did in the past. However, others feel that the amount of stress people have today is exaggerated. They say that previous generations were under more pressure, but the idea of suffering from stress did not exist.

Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.

You should use your own ideas, knowledge and experience and support your arguments with examples and relevant evidence.

Student answer (Band 5.0)

Now a days, everyone is suffering from stress due to daily life struggles.

Stress has been a center of topic for most of the people because no one really knows how to deal with it.

I agree with statement, that in todays time 'stress' along with 'anxiety' and 'depression' is given more imporatance because it has started to effect person's mental health. A minor convinence leads people to overthink about a situation which ultimately stress them out and make entire scenario more worst. For example: if a person is unemployed and is unable to earn for the family so he will definitly get worried because of increase in inflation and society not being helpful towards them. In this situation, a person may suffer from stress and depression just because he is unable to fulfil his family needs, and overthinking about this problem may lead person to commit suicide or self-harm act. Such case are being repoorted everyday by the news channel, thats why people think that stress in todays time is being exaggerated. In past times, stress was not considered as a big deal because of how people used to think. Previously, people chose to work hard and overcome every hardships instead of giving up easily. Secondly, during old times, if someone is struggling or going through a hard phase, people were always there to support and help eachother, whereas now a days people are involved in competition and complexity which leads person to suffer from stress and anxiety.

To conclude, in past stress was not a major problem due to way people used to percieve things, where as today people gets demotivated and give up easily insteading of working hard and manifesting.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.0

You present a relevant opinion that stress is more prominent today, and you refer to both modern pressures and the view that earlier generations faced hardship without describing it as stress. The unemployment example gives your argument some concrete support. However, the discussion is uneven: the claim that people in the past worked hard and received more support is asserted rather than illustrated, and the opposing view that stress is exaggerated is not clearly weighed against your own position. The opening also makes broad claims without establishing the debate. Develop each side in a separate, balanced argument, then explain why you find one more convincing. This would make your position clearer and your ideas more fully supported.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 4.5

The response has a recognisable opening, a sequence of supporting points, and a concluding sentence, so the reader can follow its general direction. You use some linking expressions, including “For example,” “Secondly,” and “To conclude.” However, most of the discussion is packed into one long paragraph, making the shift from present-day stress to the past difficult to track. Connections between claims are sometimes unclear: the news reports are used to explain why stress is considered exaggerated, but the relationship is not fully established. Some transitions, such as “Secondly,” introduce a point without clearly showing how it supports the comparison. Use separate paragraphs for the two views and your opinion, and make each paragraph’s main point explicit.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use relevant vocabulary for the topic, including “unemployed,” “inflation,” “mental health,” “competition,” and “self-harm,” which helps communicate the subject matter. There are also attempts at more formal phrasing, such as “overcome every hardships.” However, the range is limited by repeated general terms such as “stress,” “people,” and “situation,” and several word-choice, collocation, and spelling errors reduce precision. Examples include “center of topic,” “minor convinence,” “repoorted,” and “manifesting” in the conclusion. Choose more natural expressions and check spelling carefully. More precise language for pressures and coping strategies would also help distinguish the two views rather than relying on broad claims.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempt both simple and complex sentences, including a conditional example beginning “if a person is unemployed” and a longer sentence contrasting past and present. This shows an effort to express cause, consequence, and comparison. However, complex sentences are often difficult to control, and errors in agreement, articles, tense, and sentence construction recur. For instance, “a minor convinence … stress them out” shifts from singular to plural, while “people gets demotivated” has incorrect subject–verb agreement. The opening fragment-like line breaks and comma use also interrupt the flow. Practise building shorter, complete sentences first, then combine them with accurate clauses. Check agreement and tense consistency during revision.

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