Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.5 · Cambridge IELTS 21 · 2026-11-13

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 5.5)

IT IS OFTEN ARGUED THAT BUILDING TALL APARTMENTS BLOCKS IN LARGE CITIES IS BEST WAY TO PROVIDE ENOUGH HOMES. I COMPLETELY DISAGREE WITH THIS STATEMENT BECAUSE IT WILL EFFECTS ON INFRASTRUCTURE AND MANY OTHER THINGS.

ONE OF THE MAIN REASON OF THAT IS BUILDING TALL APARTMENTS WILL EFFECT ON INFRASTRUCTURE AND ROADS. FOR EXAMPLE, A HOUSING SOCIETY CONSTRUCT ON PLAN AND MEASUREMENTS OF AREA FOR BUILDING THIS WAY WILL DISTRUB THE ROADS AND SURRONDINGS LIKE BUILDING MART, SCHOOL AND PARK. ANOTHER REASON IS THAT, SOCIETIES WILL BE SO CWORDED AND THIS MAY LEAD TO LACK OF BASIC THINGS. FOR INSTANCE: WATER AND MANY MORE ESSENTIAL THINGS WHICH A PERSON NEEDS TO USE IN DAILY LIFE.

FUTHERMORE, SAFETY WILL BE BECOME A HUGE CONCERN BECAUSE IF SOCEITY WILL BE CWORDED EVERYONE MAY RAISE A POINT. FOR EXAMPLE, SECRUITY GUARDS MAY BE NEEDED MORE FOR ENTRANCE AND HAVE TO MANAGE INFORMATION ABOUT EVERY SINGAL MEMBER . THEREFORE, IT WILL BE MORE CHOAS TO HANDLE SO MANY PEOPLE. ONE MORE REASON, IT IS NOT SAFE FOR NATURAL DISASTERS BECAUSE NOWADAYS EARTHQUACKS REPORTED BACK TO BACK. FOR EXAMPLE, BUILDING A HIGH-RISE APARTMENT MAY EFFECT MORE DURING THESE SITUATION TO PEOPLE WHO ARE LIVING IN THESE BUILDINGS AND PEOPLE WHO LIVE NEARBY THEM.

IN CONCLUSION, I DISAGREE BECAUSE BUILDING HIGH-RISE BUILDING MAY SOLVE PROBLEM FOR PROVIDING HOMES BUT BRING MORE ISSUES FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE LIVING IN SOCEITY AS WELL AS WHO LIVE NEARBY. MOREOVER, THIS WILL INTERRUPT IN INFRASTRUCTURE AND SAFETY CONCERNS WILL INCREASE. THEREFORE, GOVERNMENT SHOULD ALSO CONSIDER LOW-RISE RESIDENTIAL AREAS AND AFFORDABLE HOUSES IN LESS DENSE POPULATED PARTS OF CITIES.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0

Your position is clear from the introduction to the conclusion: you completely disagree with relying on tall apartment blocks, and you offer relevant concerns about infrastructure, access to essentials, safety and earthquakes. The final suggestion to consider low-rise housing and affordable homes also gives your response a practical direction. However, some points are asserted rather than explained. For example, the link between crowded housing and needing more security guards is not fully developed, and the earthquake point would be stronger with a clearer explanation of why high-rise buildings create greater risk. Develop each main reason with a specific consequence or example, and acknowledge briefly how tall blocks can increase housing supply before explaining why this is not the best overall solution.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.5

The response has a clear overall structure, with an introduction, two body paragraphs and a conclusion. Its progression is generally easy to follow: infrastructure and crowding are discussed first, followed by safety and natural disasters. Linking expressions such as “For example,” “Furthermore” and “In conclusion” help signal the stages of the argument. This meets the lower-band expectations and shows some features of stronger organisation. However, several transitions feel mechanical, and “One more reason” introduces another point without showing how it relates to the preceding safety discussion. Some references, such as “this way” and “these situation,” are unclear. Use more precise links between claims and consequences, and organise each paragraph around one main idea with its supporting explanation.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

You use enough topic-related vocabulary to communicate the main concerns, including “infrastructure,” “natural disasters,” “high-rise apartment” and “affordable houses.” However, the range is limited and several inaccurate or misspelled expressions make the argument less clear. Examples include “building mart” (apparently meaning a building or market), “cworeded,” “chaos,” and “interrupt in infrastructure.” Some phrases are also unnatural, such as “raise a point” and “back to back” in the earthquake example. These issues fit a limited but usable vocabulary range: the reader can usually infer your meaning, but errors sometimes cause difficulty. Build a bank of accurate housing and urban-planning collocations, and check spelling and word forms carefully.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempt both simple and more complex sentences, including a reason clause beginning “because” and conditional structures such as “if society will be…” This shows an effort to vary sentence forms, but control is inconsistent. For example, “it will effects” has an incorrect verb form, while “Safety will be become” combines incompatible verb patterns. The sentence beginning “A housing society construct…” also lacks a correctly formed main verb, and “if society will be…” uses an unsuitable tense after “if.” These errors sometimes make the reader work to understand the intended relationship between ideas. Practise accurate subject–verb patterns, articles and conditional clauses, then proofread each sentence for a complete, correctly formed verb phrase.

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