Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.0 · Cambridge IELTS 13 · 2026-11-09

IELTS Writing Task 2 question

Some people say History is one of the most important school subjects. Other people think that in today’s world subjects like Science and technology are more important than History.

Discuss both views and give your own opinion.

Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant example form your own knowledge or experience.

Student answer (Band 5.0)

History is important subject in school because every person right to know who i am, and where is my forefather is belong is also know about tradition and culture is impartant part of your life so i think history all about personalty growing and other thing.

Science and Technology is important rule act in current life. Science is performs is everywhere like medical sector and education field is include. Every country focus the both sectors because technogy is important in human lives and easy to solve the problems and less time consum to complete.

Technology is important subject for students for example technical student in technology he is create a successful software and software help the people is major victory. My opinion is technology is important course must student studies.

Science is important course for students and i prefer must be student studing and growing in this secter helping own peoples and provides the solution for own peoples. For example student is perform a successfull experiment and invent a new medical medicine and solve the disease. He is appricate and pride the own country name.My opinion is science course important for the student.

All the discussion and my last opinion is three course History Science and Technology is important for every student. All the courses is study and analzied your interest and you joy the course. History is must be important for students beacause history tell about diffucties face you past and wars. History is also say your friends and your enimes. Every famous person and famous victory must read the history you are more learn and understand the means of sucess.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.5

You address both sides by explaining that History helps students understand their identity, traditions and the past, while Science and Technology support medicine, education and problem-solving. You also state a preference for these modern subjects and later conclude that all three are important, so a position is present, although it shifts and is not consistently clear. The examples of software and a medical invention are relevant, but they are brief and do not explain their impact in much detail. The discussion of History is also difficult to follow, particularly the claims about friends, enemies and famous victories. Develop each view with a clear reason and a specific explanation, then state a consistent opinion about how the subjects compare.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.0

The response has separate paragraphs for History, Science and Technology, examples, and a conclusion, which gives it some basic organisation. However, the overall progression is not clear: the opinion first favours Technology, then Science, and finally says all three are important, without explaining how these views fit together. Connections between sentences are often missing or unclear, and repeated openings such as “Science is important course” make the response feel repetitive. Some ideas are difficult to connect, especially the final claims about History and “friends” and “enemies.” Use a clear structure—one paragraph for each view, followed by a conclusion—and link each example directly to the point it supports.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

You use some relevant topic vocabulary, including “tradition and culture,” “medical sector,” “software,” “experiment,” and “disease.” These terms show an attempt to discuss the subject rather than relying only on very general language. However, the range is limited and several word choices or forms make meaning unclear, such as “important rule act,” “personalty growing,” “less time consum,” and “pride the own country name.” Spelling errors such as “technogy,” “impartant,” and “sucess” also reduce clarity. Build a more accurate set of topic phrases and check spelling and collocations; for example, describe technology as helping people “solve problems efficiently” rather than using an unclear phrase.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 4.5

You attempt to express reasons and examples, and there are a few simple sentence patterns, but the range is limited and many sentences are difficult to interpret because of frequent grammatical errors. Problems include missing or incorrect articles and agreement, as in “History is important subject” and “Science is important course,” as well as faulty verb forms in “Science is performs” and “student is perform.” Several clauses are joined without clear grammatical structure, particularly the opening sentence and “Every country focus the both sectors.” Punctuation and sentence boundaries are also inconsistent. Practise building accurate simple sentences first, then combine them with controlled clauses—for example, “History helps students understand their cultural identity.”

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