Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.0 · Cambridge IELTS 21 · 2026-09-13

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 5.0)

Mostly, in major cities the best way to allot enough homes is to bulid tall apartment blocks.

I agree for the statement because constructing a tall buliding in small area can save a lot place in the world. It ensures the safety of the environment and the beauty of the landscape.

However, building a tall blocks of apartment is to save the beauty of the earth. This is beacuse by constructing many homes in different places can consume huge of free area. If there is no proper planning in forming a house can collapse anytime due the occupation of huge amount of area.

By constructing a tall buildings with a lot of homes actually save the place on the earth.

The land that is saved by constructing tall apartment blocks can ensure to suitable amount of agricultural land and increase the productivity and can satisfy the productivity demand.

This idea can also reduce natural calamaties by proper apartment plan, which make people to be free from the tension of natural destructions.

By constructing a tall apartment blocks, can increase social intractions with the people by know having more conversations with neibhours in the apartment.

Whereas, it even provides the feeling of togetherness, by making all the persons to stand on problem and rectify it.

However, it even creates the feeling of brotherlihood among the residents of a aparment. Mostly, tall apartments every resident involve in all the events that are being held in the apartment.

Meanwhile, owning a plot in a tall and luxury buliding can be an asset with high demand.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response — Band 5.0

The response addresses the prompt by stating an agreement with the idea that building tall apartment blocks is the best way to provide enough homes in large cities. The writer attempts to support this position with several ideas, such as saving agricultural land, preventing natural calamities, and fostering community interaction. However, many of these ideas are repetitive, overly generalized, and under-developed. For instance, the claim that tall buildings can reduce natural calamities lacks clear reasoning and is not fully explained. Furthermore, the argument loops back to social interactions and a sense of brotherhood multiple times without advancing new perspectives. While the writer presents a clear position and attempts to cover the task, the lack of well-developed supporting arguments places this performance firmly at Band 5.0.

Coherence and Cohesion — Band 5.0

The text exhibits basic organizational structure with attempts at logical progression, such as introducing points with words like 'However', 'Meanwhile', and 'Whereas'. However, the overall cohesion is frequently mechanical, repetitive, and occasionally confusing. For example, paragraphs are very short and sometimes consist of single, disjointed sentences that lack smooth transitions. The paragraph starting with 'However, building a tall blocks of apartment...' awkwardly restates the previous point rather than introducing a contrasting idea. Referencing is also weak, with pronouns and cohesive devices often used inaccurately or repetitively. Paragraphing is attempted, but the short, fragmented nature of the paragraphs disrupts the flow of the argument. These issues reflect the descriptors for Band 5.0.

Lexical Resource — Band 5.0

The lexical resource displayed is limited and repetitive, though minimally adequate for the task. The student attempts some less common vocabulary such as 'agricultural land', 'productivity', and 'calamaties', but these are accompanied by frequent spelling and word-choice errors, such as 'bulid', 'buliding', 'neibhours', 'brotherlihood', and 'aparment'. Furthermore, collocation errors and awkward phrasing are prevalent, such as 'allot enough homes' and 'stand on problem'. While the vocabulary is sufficient to convey the basic message about housing and city planning, the noticeable errors and restricted range prevent the response from achieving a higher band, making Band 5.0 an accurate reflection of the lexical control.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy — Band 5.0

The student uses a mix of simple and complex sentence forms, but attempts at complex structures are frequently faulty and grammatically inaccurate. Examples of structural and agreement errors include 'I agree for the statement', 'constructing a tall buliding in small area can save a lot place', 'by constructing many homes in different places can consume huge of free area', and 'By constructing a tall apartment blocks, can increase social intractions'. Punctuation is also problematic, with unnecessary commas disrupting subject-verb relationships. Frequent grammatical errors cause some difficulty for the reader and mean that error-free sentences are in the minority. This aligns closely with the Band 5 descriptor for grammatical range and accuracy.

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