Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Cambridge IELTS 21 · 2026-09-18

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 6.0)

In today's world, many big multi national compines offer the opportunity to spend and work a period of time working in abroad to their employees. These kind of chance helps employees personally and professionally. Moreover, there are lots of marits of this development for companies. This essay will discuss both views with relevant examples.

To begin with, working in another country is highly benificial for employees because it enables them to work with different people with various language, cultures and traditions. For example, my company sent me to Canada for 6 months on traning program. First, it helped me to understand working culture of multi-national company, and their work mathods, which helped to improve my team's efficiency and productivity back home. As a result, it help employees to develope skills such as, communication and critical thinking. Moreover, employees can meet various people while they are on their aborad visit which help them to expand their professional network . Therefore, it can open up various work opportunitues for them.

This short of developments also produce many benifits for compnies. First and foremost, smalles compnies can work with big multi national compnies, which help them to learn new technologies and developments. As a result, it may help them to improve their compnies performance. For example, KPMG India office sends many employees to different countries to learn about new technology and work systems. As a result, it help to improve their employees' efficasy. What is more, it also help compnies to sign MOUs for new orders and help them to build strong business relationships. It is very vital in nowdays as compition is on its pick, maintaining physical relations with your clients helps in growing business faster.

To sum up, living and working in anither country help employees help them in their overall growth such as leraining, knwoledge, communication, problem solving. Whereas, it helps compnies to learn from the best and improve themselves.

AI examiner evaluation

CriterionBand
Task Achievement / Task Response6.5
Coherence and Cohesion6.0
Lexical Resource5.5
Grammatical Range and Accuracy5.5
Overall6.0

Task Achievement / Task Response — Band 6.5

The response addresses all parts of the task by explaining why the opportunity is beneficial for employees and what advantages it brings to companies. The writer adopts a clear position and supports ideas with relevant examples, such as the personal mention of being sent to Canada and the corporate example of KPMG India. However, the introduction contains a slightly contradictory thesis statement ("This essay will discuss both views") since the prompt does not present two conflicting opinions to debate, but rather asks two direct questions. Furthermore, some ideas like company performance improvements are slightly repetitive. Overall, the task response is well-rounded and satisfies the requirements for a Band 6.5 or 7.0, ultimately fitting comfortably into Band 6.5 due to minor structural development flaws in the thesis.

Coherence and Cohesion — Band 6.0

The essay is logically organised into four paragraphs: an introduction, a body paragraph on employee benefits, a body paragraph on company benefits, and a conclusion. Cohesive devices are employed to guide the reader, using markers such as "To begin with", "Moreover", "First and foremost", and "To sum up". However, referencing and paragraphing show some mechanical usage, and logical progression occasionally falters due to abrupt transitions between sentences within the body paragraphs. For instance, the transition from training in Canada to building a professional network is somewhat abrupt. Paragraphing is used sufficiently, but overall cohesion receives a Band 6.0 due to mechanical over-reliance on basic transition words and occasional referencing slips.

Lexical Resource — Band 5.5

The writer attempts a range of vocabulary suitable for the topic, including terms like "efficiency", "productivity", "professional network", and "business relationships". However, there are numerous spelling and word-form errors throughout the text, such as "compines" instead of companies, "benificial" instead of beneficial, "traning" instead of training, "mathods" instead of methods, "develope" instead of develop, "aborad" instead of abroad, "opportunitues" instead of opportunities, "compnies", "smalles", "efficasy", "inither", "leraining", and "knwoledge". These frequent spelling errors and occasional awkward collocations like "This short of developments" indicate a Band 5.5 lexical level, as the errors occasionally distract the reader, though communication is not impeded.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy — Band 5.5

The student demonstrates a mix of simple and complex sentence forms, utilizing relative clauses and conditional structures such as "compines offer the opportunity to spend and work a period of time working in abroad to their employees." However, grammatical accuracy is weak, featuring frequent errors such as subject-verb agreement issues ("These kind of chance helps", "it help employees", "it also help compnies"), incorrect prepositions ("working in abroad"), and tense inconsistencies. Punctuation errors are also present, such as incorrect comma splices and spaces before commas. Because complex structures are frequently faulty and errors recur across sentences, this performance aligns closely with Band 5.5.

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