Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.0 · Cambridge IELTS 17 · 2026-09-22

IELTS Writing Task 2 question

Some people believe that professionals, such as doctors and engineers, should be required to work in the country where they did their training. Others believe they should be free to work in another country if they wish.

Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.

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

Student answer (Band 5.0)

Some individuals think that professionals , such as doctors and engineers ,should be required to work in the country where they did their practice. Others claim that they should be free to work in another nation if they wish.

Candidates after finishing their academics they will go work for financial stable with family till end in the same nation as the result of emotionally connected to each other in a family they will not ready to move other country.For example a doctor in a home after completed mbbs they get more job offers from international hospitals such as Cauvery, Apollo and George hospital these kinds of offers they denied to work because they need family connection so they stayed with them rather than jumping into other country to work whereas, in that family a trustable doctor in their family have consecuently, if any emergency needed they will conern their own member who is doctor of their family. On the otherhand, in a family has an engineer it would be assist to constuct a home from free land becuase if the enginner came from middle class family they have a dream to construct house in thier city. However , they can stay along with family and work in their surface.Furthermore, they can earn more money to build more complexes , schools and colleges in main area these could support alot compared to working in other nations.

In addition, the employers after getting some experiences they will shift to another country from nation since, they need to upgrade their life into double with family or alone.Morever, projects will getting huge while, working under one company in a country it will cause their skills and also, financially not stable.For an instance if a softwre developer earning 40$ in India it could not enough for fresher and also, they need to gain more knowledge and experiences therefore, they moved after two years it would strongly assist to get a job with high package in a good corporate company in abroad espcially in Germany ,France and alo United Stated of America.Additionally, bonus also given by companies if any public holidays or any festivals such as Chrismax, New year and Birthday these kinds of functions they provided holidays with no task on that days.Moreover, work pressure is very less compared to hometown of their employees because in thier locations they need to submit their task with time period while, other country if an employer working for 5 hours they will easily completed with the help of artifical intelligence.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response — Band 5.0

The response addresses all parts of the task by discussing both views—that professionals should work in their home country and that they should be free to migrate—while implicitly offering an opinion through personal examples. However, the development of ideas is often confusing and heavily reliant on idiosyncratic personal narratives rather than general arguments. For instance, the discussion regarding family connections, doctors, and engineers tends to drift into tangential points rather than fully exploring the societal or economic implications of the prompt. While the second body paragraph attempts to address the perspective of professionals moving abroad for better financial and career prospects, the line of reasoning is frequently obscured by awkward expression. Consequently, the task response falls into the Band 5 category because the ideas are limited, under-developed, and the overall position is not always clearly articulated or sustained.

Coherence and Cohesion — Band 5.0

The essay is divided into paragraphs, but the logical progression and overall arrangement are frequently disrupted by confusing transitions and sentence structures. Cohesive devices such as 'whereas', 'consecuently', 'On the otherhand', and 'Morever' are used, but they are often mechanically or inaccurately applied, failing to create clear semantic relationships between ideas. Referencing is frequently unclear, making it difficult for the reader to follow which group of people or concepts the pronoun refers to. Paragraphing is attempted, but the internal unity and progression of each paragraph are weak. Ideas jump abruptly from family doctors to engineers and then to software developers without a smooth overarching narrative. This indicates a level of coherence and cohesion best described by Band 5, where some organisation is present but overall progression is lacking.

Lexical Resource — Band 5.0

The vocabulary used is basic and frequently marred by word choice errors and incorrect collocations. Examples such as 'financial stable', 'surface' instead of field or country, and 'softwre developer' demonstrate a limited control of lexical items. There are also frequent spelling errors (e.g., 'consecuently', 'constuct', 'espcially', 'Chrismax', 'artifical') that detract from the reading experience. While the writer attempts less common vocabulary such as 'international hospitals' and 'corporate company', these attempts are undermined by inaccuracies and non-standard phrasing. The lexical range is minimally adequate for conveying basic thoughts, but the density of errors places the response firmly at Band 4.5, rounded to 5.0 due to the presence of some correct terminology.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy — Band 4.5

The grammatical structure of the essay is heavily compromised by frequent and persistent errors. The text contains numerous run-on sentences, missing punctuation, and faulty syntactic arrangements, such as 'Candidates after finishing their academics they will go work...' and 'For an instance if a softwre developer earning 40$ in India it could not enough...'. Complex sentence structures are attempted, but they are almost invariably faulty, leading to strained meaning and frequent difficulty for the reader. Simple sentences also contain agreement or tense errors. Control over punctuation is weak, with commas and capitalisation frequently misplaced. Because errors are frequent and regularly impede communication, the grammar matches the Band 4 descriptor closely, though the attempt at a mix of structures warrants a Band 4.5, rounded to 4.5 or 5.0 depending on overall impact. We award 4.5 here.

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