Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Cambridge IELTS 21 · 2026-09-16

IELTS Writing Task 2 question

It is very common for people to change both their habits and their opinions as they get older.

Do you agree or disagree?

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

Student answer (Band 6.0)

There are alot of things that will change according to the time period. Therefore, some individuals think that as people grow up, their opinions and habits are comonly changed. I extremly agree with this because people gain more experience and change their priorotoes oftenly throughout their live.

Its very common that at young age people have different habbits but when the grow up they like to do different things in their lesiure time. for instance, in teenage majority of persons like to spend their time with friends like outing, playing games while in old age they like to utilize their free time in productive things or they give preference to spend their quality of time with their family. It happens because in this age they know the value of time so, they like to utilize it instead of just spending.

Moreover, according to the time they gain the experience of numerous things that they didnot know in their past time. Thats why their opinion change according to their age. In young age people have different opinion and some time they screwed up in thier life .After that they learn from their mistakes , then do thier things in better way with best opinion. Therefore, its depends upon their experiences which they get in their whole life. for example, in starting age persons had a diiferent opinion for a perticuler job but after some work experience they might change their view of point that another job is more suitable for them.

To sum it up, individuals change their point of views and habits when they grow up but its just because of theiur responsibilities, prioritis, and their life experiencese.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response — Band 6.5

The response successfully addresses all parts of the task by taking a clear and well-developed position on whether people change their habits and opinions as they age. The candidate extends their ideas with relevant supporting examples, such as contrasting the leisure activities of teenagers with those of older adults, and explaining how career choices evolve through work experience. While some of the supporting explanations are slightly repetitive, the main arguments are clear and directly answer the prompt. The response meets the necessary requirements for task coverage and presents a logical, fully developed stance throughout, aligning well with the descriptors for Band 6.5 to 7.0. Because the ideas are adequately extended and supported, it comfortably satisfies the criteria for a Band 6.5.

Coherence and Cohesion — Band 6.0

The response maintains a coherent overall arrangement with a clear progression of ideas from the introduction through the body paragraphs to the conclusion. Paragraphing is used appropriately to separate distinct ideas, such as habits in the second paragraph and opinions in the third. However, cohesive devices are at times basic or slightly mechanical, featuring phrases like 'for instance', 'Moreover', and 'To sum it up'. Referencing is generally clear, although transitions between some sentences could be smoother. The structure is logical, but the occasional repetitive use of linking phrases and slightly strained transitions prevent the text from achieving a higher band. Overall, the organizational structure is easy to follow, making Band 6.0 an accurate reflection of its cohesive qualities.

Lexical Resource — Band 5.5

The student uses an adequate range of vocabulary for the task, attempting some less common items such as 'responsibilities', 'priorities', and 'experiences'. However, there are notable spelling errors ('alot', 'comonly', 'extremly', 'priorotoes', 'habbits', 'lesiure', 'diiferent', 'perticuler', 'prioritis', 'experiencese') and word-choice inaccuracies, such as 'productive things' instead of 'productive activities' and 'view of point' instead of 'point of view'. While these errors do not seriously impede communication, their frequency prevents the lexical score from rising into the higher bands. The student demonstrates a sufficient range to convey basic meaning, but the persistent mechanical and lexical slips place this securely at Band 5.5.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy — Band 5.0

The writer employs a mix of simple and complex sentence forms, utilizing relative clauses and conditional structures such as 'when the grow up they like to do different things' and 'after some work experience they might change their view of point'. However, grammatical accuracy is inconsistent. There are frequent errors involving verb tenses, article usage, subject-verb agreement, and prepositional phrases (e.g., 'at young age', 'in teenage majority of persons', 'in past time', 'its depends'). Although these errors are noticeable and require some effort from the reader to parse, they rarely entirely impede communication. The presence of frequent grammatical inaccuracies alongside a limited control of complex structures is characteristic of Band 5.0.

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