Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.0 · Cambridge IELTS 13 · 2026-09-18

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)

Some people say History is one of the most important school subjects. Other human beings believe that in today world subjects like Science and technology are more crucial than History as well.

On the postive side, History subject play a vital role in the community that tells historical things through book to our students and all over the world. Like the way many citizen do not know about our culture, tradional things and manymore. This subject tell the past of our country what diffculties faces when our nation is develioped respecticvely. For Instance, many individuals do not knew anything about old things what happened in the past. However, through books students are very intrested to knows anything. This History Subject plays vital in our life in all over the world so every nations citizens want this subject if there is not available. Furthermore, this crucial subject is very common in every sector of studies.

On the another side, Science and Technology are the most important too subjects as well. Nowadays, these are very common in every sector of clasess and they help to student about physically things. For example, science tells about medical things and the community are very happier to know through this subject and achieve alot of things too. While, technology is very crucial these days they help through watch anything on the television or other websites. This subjects tells everything about international things like the way a specalist of this community Proffesor Tayyab, he is a magician of this field of subject, he attract the community to move on this subject and very common in all sectors without these sunject there is nothing.

In my opinion, both subjects are very important in each categories because they help students in each type of factors like the way history tell about past culture tradional things and science, technology tells present things both play a significant role in all our the world.

In conclusion, these three subjects helps human beings to know all of things about today or tommorow. These subjects very important now a days respectively. Authorities are too much intrested to go through these subjects in future.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response — Band 5.0

The response addresses all parts of the task by discussing both views (the importance of history versus science and technology) and provides a clear personal opinion in the introduction and conclusion. However, the ideas are somewhat repetitious and lack deep development. For instance, the discussion on history relies heavily on general statements like 'this History Subject plays vital in our life in all over the world' without providing fully elaborated concrete examples. Similarly, the arguments for science and technology remain rather superficial, mentioning 'medical things' and television. This places the task response at Band 5.0, as the ideas are limited and under-developed, though the prompt's requirements are acknowledged.

Coherence and Cohesion — Band 5.0

The essay is divided into paragraphs, which helps establish a basic structure including an introduction, body paragraphs, and a conclusion. However, overall progression is hindered by repetitive phrasing and weak logical connections between sentences. Cohesive devices are often used inaccurately or mechanically, such as 'On the postive side', 'On the another side', and 'While, technology is very crucial'. Referencing is also confusing at times, as seen with 'these three subjects' in the conclusion when four distinct subjects/fields were discussed throughout the essay. Paragraphing is attempted, but internal cohesion falls short of Band 6, leading to a score of 5.0.

Lexical Resource — Band 5.0

The vocabulary used is basic and repetitive, frequently relying on words like 'important', 'crucial', 'subject', and 'things' (e.g., 'physically things', 'medical things'). There are numerous word choice and spelling errors, such as 'postive', 'tradional', 'manymore', 'diffculties', 'develioped', 'respecticvely', 'knew' instead of 'know', and 'intrested'. Less common lexical items are attempted but usually used inaccurately, such as 'specalist of this community Proffesor Tayyab'. These limitations cause frequent difficulties for the reader, aligning the vocabulary profile with Band 4.5 or 5.0; a score of 5.0 is appropriate given the recognizable range.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy — Band 4.0

The student attempts a mix of simple and complex sentences, but the grammatical accuracy is very low. There are frequent errors in verb tense, subject-verb agreement, and clause structures throughout the response. Examples include 'History subject play a vital role', 'what diffculties faces when our nation is develioped', 'students are very intrested to knows anything', and 'these subjects helps human beings'. Punctuation is also problematic, with run-on sentences and comma splices, such as 'While, technology is very crucial these days they help through watch anything on the television'. Due to the constant presence of errors that regularly impede communication and obscure meaning, a band score of 4.0 is warranted.

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