Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.0 · Cambridge IELTS 13 · 2026-09-30

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)

This essay contains both tense of life, history and modern life. History is also most important school subject. But today we are living in a modern life. it is the age of science and technology. So scienceis is also more important subjecs in school and universities.

First, history has an important rule in our life. we gets knowledge about culter and living style. because our eleder has past this age ,They know better because they have experience about culture, weather, and living. they know how to take care yorself in every condition. history gives learing lesson.

by knowing history we get manybenifits in life.

but many people think that science should very imporatant suject in school and university life.Because today it is modern and technology life. Science and technology has made our life very easy. Techology and science has an important rule in human life. mostly people did work with machine. today new machine are making for every field. Science improve medical field due to technology and science. computer, internet,Aiand enginerining fielrd also the parts of modern technology and history. Science sujects hve imporatat rule in modern age. The world has become a globlal village.

In my opinion, sceiece sujects must in schol.Topday many universites is speacialy making for only science field. If people prefers history, they can not success in modern life, Because is is the age of science. we know bettter many field as climate change , weather, flood information etc. people can save their time and mony by learning many problems of his life by internet and Ai. All these field as progress only due to science and technolgy.

In this esay, discussion about both topics , history and modern age( science and technology).

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.0

The response attempts to address both views regarding the importance of history versus science and technology, and states a personal opinion. However, the development of ideas is limited and repetitive. For instance, the discussion on history touches upon getting knowledge about culture, but remains underdeveloped. Similarly, the arguments for science mention technology, AI, and engineering, but these points are expressed in a somewhat disjointed manner. The position is clear, but the support lacks depth and extension, aligning best with Band 5 descriptors where ideas are limited and under-developed.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.0

The essay is divided into paragraphs, which helps structure the discussion, but the overall progression of ideas is frequently disrupted by poor cohesion and abrupt shifts. Cohesive devices are basic and sometimes inaccurate, such as starting paragraphs with 'First' and 'but many people think'. Referencing is occasionally unclear, as seen with pronouns like 'They' and 'it'. The logical flow from one sentence to the next is strained, creating a somewhat repetitive and mechanical feel throughout the text. These features place the response firmly at Band 5.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

The vocabulary used is basic and repetitive, with several spelling errors such as 'gets' instead of 'get', 'culter', 'eleder', 'benifits', 'imporatat', 'globlal', and 'schol'. The student attempts some less common terms like 'technology', 'engineering', and 'climate change', but noticeable errors in word choice and spelling cause some difficulty for the reader. The lexical range is minimally adequate for the task, reflecting the characteristics of a Band 4.5 to 5.0 response, rounded to 5.0.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 4.0

The essay displays a very limited range of structures. Simple sentences predominate, and attempts at complex sentences are frequently faulty, such as 'If people prefers history, they can not success in modern life, Because is is the age of science.' There are frequent errors in subject-verb agreement ('scienceis is also', 'people did work'), capitalization, and punctuation. These errors cause strain and difficulty for the reader, which is characteristic of Band 4 grammar.

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