Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.5 · Cambridge IELTS 21 · 2026-09-16

IELTS Writing Task 2 question

Nowadays many large international companies offer their staff the opportunity to spend a period of time living and working in another country.

Why might this opportunity be good for employees?

What advantages does this development have for companies?

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

Student answer (Band 5.5)

In recent decades, many international companies has been offering a great opportunities to their staffs to work in another region and experience living there. This essay will disucss the reasons behind how employees get benifits from this and what advantages can companies get from this trend.

There is lots of people who is applying in international organizations to get some profetional exprience in their filed. If they get change to work in other country, they can get numerious benefits. First and foremost, staffs can get chance to explore other country, diffrencet famous places, it's famouse food and culture while working in company. The another reson is that they can learn from the businessies, how to deal with clients, how to overcome from the fear of failure, how to maintain good stability and many more by attending seminars and meetups. Also meeting with business owners is the great benefits to learn from their whole life experience. Sometimes they motivated, take a step toward to build their own business. Furthermore, The main benefits they get is that comapnies are providing all expenses to the team to live in other country.

Companies are getting benefits from this trend have severals reasons. One of the major reason is loyal employee toward company. Nowadays finding a loyal employees are challanging. Therefore if company gives opportunity to live abroad from companies expence and in return they get loyal employees. Another benefit is that international organizations are getting experienced talents. they get some experienced persons, who are responsible to tackle all the situation and manage work on time. In the same way they don't need to worry about data licking because they get trustable employees in their compay. so they work long-term and help to achive companies goal.

To conclude, Internations organizations are now offering a great opportunities to stay and work in other country. there are the numerious benefits for employees to explore country, gain some real business knowledge,read business owner's mind and learn from their experience. On the other hand, companies get advantages by having a loyal, experienced, long-term and trustable staff members in their team.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response — Band 6.0

The response addresses all parts of the prompt, discussing both why the opportunity is beneficial for employees and the advantages it brings to companies. The writer provides relevant ideas, such as professional experience, cultural exposure, and employee loyalty. However, some ideas are repetitive or under-developed, and the arguments tend to rely on generalisations rather than deep elaboration. For instance, the discussion on how employees learn from business owners is somewhat superficial. While the position is clear throughout, the overall development corresponds to Band 6 descriptors.

Coherence and Cohesion — Band 6.0

The essay displays a coherent overall arrangement with clear paragraphing, including an introduction, body paragraphs for both parts of the prompt, and a conclusion. However, cohesion is frequently mechanical and sometimes faulty. The writer uses basic cohesive devices like 'First and foremost', 'Also', and 'Furthermore', but referencing and transitions are at times awkward, such as 'The another reson is that...' and 'Companies are getting benefits from this trend have severals reasons.' Paragraphing is used sufficiently, but logical progression within paragraphs could be smoother, aligning best with a Band 6 score.

Lexical Resource — Band 5.0

The student uses an adequate range of vocabulary for the task, attempting some less common items such as 'international organizations', 'professional experience', and 'loyal employee'. However, there are numerous word-choice errors, spelling mistakes ('disucss', 'benifits', 'profetional', 'exprience', 'filed', 'change' instead of 'chance', 'numerious', 'diffrencet', 'famouse', 'businessies', 'reson', 'comapnies', 'challanging', 'expence', 'licking' instead of 'leaking', 'achive'), and awkward collocations ('read business owner's mind'). These errors sometimes cause strain, but communication is not severely impeded, placing this safely at Band 5.0.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy — Band 5.0

The writer attempts a mix of simple and complex sentence forms, but grammatical accuracy is quite weak throughout the essay. There are frequent errors in subject-verb agreement ('many international companies has been offering', 'There is lots of people', 'finding a loyal employees are'), articles ('get change', 'the main benefits'), and prepositions ('applying in'). Furthermore, relative clauses and conditional structures often contain structural flaws ('If they get change to work...', 'Therefore if company gives opportunity...'). These frequent errors can cause difficulty for the reader, matching the Band 5 descriptors.

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