Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.5 · IELTS Complete Catalyst · 2026-11-13

IELTS Writing Task 2 question

Some people regard work as the most important thing in life and have little interest in anything else. Other people are more enthusiastic about their hobbies and leisure interests than their jobs.

Discuss both these attitudes 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 5.5)

Some individuals gives more important to their work than any other things in their life. whereas, others are much interested about their hobbies and are less interested in their jobs.

People who don't have time to spend on other activities. The people are bussy minding their worklife than any thing. For example: Researchers who are always bussy reseraching and discovering new things which make them feel good. they are the people who don't really care about other things in their life like scientists. I think it is really important for the person who are really passonate about their work .

Th people enthusiastic about their hobbies . These people will spend their leisure time doing their favourite things. Those are the activities which are releaving from their worklife. For example: IT employes they work for entire week which leads to stress and bussy scheadule they will spent their weekoff on their hobbies like dance, art and games.

Both the people are doing what they actually are interested in like working and doing other things other than work. It is okay until the person is doing the work they like and enjoy doing. But most of them are really busy in minding their ownbusiness and forget what actually life is other than work. I belive that one should have interest in any little thing other than work

In the conclusion it is really important to appriciate little things that we are good at in this bussy lifestyle . Which can make life much easier and calm for a while. Therefore there are other things better than work and jobs which we have to start appricating and feel proud off.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.5

You discuss both attitudes: the second paragraph presents people focused on work, while the third describes workers who use leisure time for hobbies. You also give a personal view, especially in “one should have interest in any little thing other than work.” However, the discussion is only partly developed. The examples of researchers and IT employees are relevant, but they are brief and do not explain in much detail why either attitude is beneficial or problematic. Your position also shifts: you say it is acceptable to enjoy work, then argue that people should value interests outside work, without clearly weighing the two attitudes. State your view directly in the introduction and develop each main point with a reason and a specific example.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.5

The response has a recognisable structure, with an introduction, separate paragraphs for the two attitudes, a paragraph expressing your view, and a conclusion. This helps readers identify the main sections. However, progression within paragraphs is sometimes unclear, and several sentences are fragments, such as “People who don't have time to spend on other activities.” The opening “whereas” also does not connect smoothly to the preceding sentence. Ideas and examples are often placed next to each other without explaining their relationship, while “work,” “people,” and “other things” recur frequently. Use complete topic sentences, connect each example explicitly to its point, and make the conclusion follow clearly from the position established earlier.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

You use some relevant vocabulary for the topic, including “leisure time,” “hobbies,” “stress,” and “passionate,” so the reader can generally understand the subject. However, the range is limited and several expressions are inaccurate or repetitive, including “gives more important to their work,” “bussy minding their worklife,” and “doing other things other than work.” Spelling errors such as “scheadule,” “appriciate,” and “belive” also reduce accuracy. Some word combinations sound unnatural, for example “spend their weekoff on their hobbies.” Build a wider set of accurate phrases for discussing work-life balance, and check spelling and collocations carefully. More precise vocabulary would help distinguish the benefits and drawbacks of each attitude.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempt some longer sentences, including the example about IT employees, and use basic structures to communicate your main ideas. However, the range is limited, and errors occur frequently enough to make parts of the response difficult to follow. For example, “Some individuals gives” has a subject–verb agreement error, while “The people are bussy minding their worklife than any thing” lacks a clear grammatical comparison. “they are the people” also begins with incorrect capitalization, and “the person who are” has an agreement error. Sentence fragments, such as “The people enthusiastic about their hobbies,” further affect clarity. Practise building complete sentences with accurate subjects and verbs, and use a few controlled complex structures rather than joining several ideas loosely.

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