Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Cambridge IELTS 20 · 2026-11-10

IELTS Writing Task 2 question

Write about the following topic:

In many countries, family members work together in their family business.

Do you think family businesses have more advantages than disadvantages?

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

Student answer (Band 6.0)

In this moderan era people don't even want to stay connected with each other and live their own lives there there are families that have developed there busineses and made them successsfull. Accoding to me family members working togather in their business have several advantages.

First and a critical advantage is trust, it is rare to find honest and reliable people in today's world. People can relay on family members with their business as they have known them for years and have complete faith in them. This also helps in distributing workload among members. As a family each person can run a critical department and maintain it properly giving strength to the business to grow at a much faster rate.

Secondly determination towards work is another key benefit of having family members work in business. Hired people will work limited hours and do as much as they are paid for. But when it comes to family business people are more invested in it and willing to work untill the job gets done. This kind of work reflect success real fast. Another importent factior is diversification of business. For example Reliance group is a business that expands in different industries like textile, technology, fasion and many more and all of these brabches are managed by family members. today Reliance is big name in Indian market.

In my openion, family owned and operated businesses have a much higher success rate. There is trust in each other which is crucial to run a business. On top of that people work much harder and share success amongs them.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.5

Your position is clear: you believe family businesses have more advantages, and you support this with relevant points about trust, shared workloads, commitment and diversification. The Reliance example also helps make the discussion more concrete. This addresses the question, but the advantages are not all developed equally. For instance, you explain how trust can help members manage departments, while the claim that family businesses have a “much higher success rate” is asserted rather than supported. The response also focuses almost entirely on benefits and does not consider any possible disadvantages, such as family disagreements or blurred work-life boundaries. Briefly acknowledging and weighing one drawback, then explaining why the benefits still outweigh it, would make the argument more fully developed.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.5

The response has a recognisable structure: an introduction, two body paragraphs and a conclusion. The ideas generally progress from trust and workload-sharing to commitment and diversification, and signposts such as “First,” “Secondly” and “For example” help readers follow the argument. However, some connections are mechanical, and the opening sentence is difficult to follow because ideas run together: “live their own lives there there are families…” The second body paragraph also moves quickly from commitment to diversification without clearly explaining how the example supports the main point. In the conclusion, “On top of that” repeats an earlier idea rather than drawing the argument together. Use clearer sentence boundaries and more explicit links between each example and its supporting claim.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use relevant vocabulary for the topic, including “reliable,” “distributing workload,” “determination,” “diversification” and “industries.” These choices show some range beyond basic everyday language. However, spelling errors are noticeable, including “moderan,” “busineses,” “successsfull,” “Accoding,” “togather” and “importent,” and several expressions are imprecise or unnatural, such as “This kind of work reflect success real fast” and “big name in Indian market.” These issues reduce the accuracy and naturalness of the vocabulary, even though the main meaning is usually understandable. Check spelling carefully and build more precise collocations—for example, describe a business as “achieving success” rather than “reflect[ing] success,” and use “a well-known company in the Indian market.”

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You attempt both simple and more complex sentence forms, including clauses with “as” and “when,” and most of your main points can be understood. However, errors in sentence boundaries, agreement, articles and verb forms are frequent enough to make some sentences awkward. The opening contains a run-on construction, while “This kind of work reflect success” has a subject–verb agreement error. In “Reliance is big name in Indian market,” articles are missing, and “people are more invested in it and willing to work” would be clearer with a consistent structure such as “are more invested in it and are willing to work.” Practise punctuating longer sentences and checking each sentence for a clear subject, correctly formed verb and necessary articles.

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