Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Cambridge IELTS 21 · 2026-11-09

IELTS Writing Task 2 question

The best way to provide enough homes in large cities is to build tall apartment blocks.

To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?

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

Student answer (Band 6.0)

The number of population in the world is increasing in a significant rate. Due to this, people do not have enough homes to live. As a practical approch to this issue, people have been talking about giving out accomodation in apartment buildings in big cities.

Providing people with houses that has one floor is wasting already limited land. Instead of that, governments can build houses that have few stories and give accomodation to multiple families that are in need. In Sri Lanka you can see many multiple story buildings in urban areas that give housings to hundreds of families.

Also instead of using lands that are in forest areas, it is better to use lands that are already in busy big cities. This way we can leave out those untouched lands to nature. That will be an immense workout to save endangered animals like tusks, elephants and save giant trees that grow freely in the nature.

For example, these days we hear lots of news about elephants, some rare wild animals getting shot and killed. In my opinion this has happned because of wild animals having less space to roam around. People in nearby areas have accessed those forests forcefullly.

According to my belief, I fully agree with the statement that the best idea to provide citizens with enough accomodation is constructing apartments in busy urban areas. That way we can minimize the harm happening to nature while urbanization happen. Alao it will be really helpful to reduce costs that require to build houses.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0

Your position is clear: you fully agree that apartment construction in urban areas is the best way to provide homes. You give relevant reasons, including using land more efficiently and avoiding development in forests, and the Sri Lankan example helps make the argument concrete. However, the discussion of wildlife is more developed than the explanation of how tall apartment blocks would meet housing demand. The point that apartments can reduce building costs is introduced only at the end and is not supported. Also, the claim that urban construction will minimise harm to nature would be stronger if you explained how cities can accommodate more residents without creating other environmental pressures. Develop each main reason with a clearer explanation or example.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0

The response has a clear overall structure: an introduction, two supporting paragraphs and a concluding statement. The ideas generally progress from efficient land use to protecting forests, and linking phrases such as “Instead of that,” “Also” and “For example” help show relationships between points. Some connections are less clear or feel mechanical, however. The second paragraph moves from urban apartment buildings to forest protection without fully explaining the link, while “That way” in the conclusion refers broadly to the preceding argument rather than a specific benefit. The wildlife example also repeats the idea of protecting nature without clearly connecting it back to housing provision. Use more precise references and make the relationship between each reason and your position explicit.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use vocabulary relevant to housing and the environment, including “limited land,” “multiple families,” “urban areas,” “endangered animals” and “untouched lands.” These choices communicate the main ideas, and there are attempts at less common expressions such as “immense workout.” However, several word-choice and collocation problems reduce precision: “number of population,” “give housings,” and “accessed those forests” do not express the intended meanings naturally. Spelling errors such as “approch,” “accomodation,” “happned” and “forcefullly” are also noticeable. Aim to learn common word partnerships and check spelling carefully; more accurate phrasing would make your argument sound clearer and more controlled.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You use a mix of simple sentences and some more complex forms, including “Instead of using lands that are in forest areas, it is better to use lands that are already in busy big cities.” Most sentences are understandable, but some grammatical errors remain. For example, “houses that has one floor” has a subject–verb agreement error, and “while urbanization happen” has an incorrect verb form. In “people do not have enough homes to live,” the sentence structure is incomplete because it needs a suitable preposition or a different construction. There are also issues with articles and plural forms, as in “in the nature.” Practise checking agreement, verb forms and sentence patterns, while continuing to use complex clauses.

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