Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.5 · Cambridge IELTS 13 · 2026-11-13

IELTS Writing Task 2 question

In spite of the advances made in agriculture, many people around the world still go hungry.

Why is this the case?

What can be done about this problem?

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

Student answer (Band 5.5)

In many urban cities a major agrument had raised that using advance technology in agriculture, still lots of people are straving. This essay will examine the primary cause of this problem and implementaion can be taken by government and international organisations.

One of the primary reasons, behind the widespread of hunger is persistent food wastage. In plethora of luxury hotel or cafes they ordered in larger amount of quanity and later they are unable to eat.As a result they throw in dustbin. Additionally poilitical instability somes leads to crisis of food, because of wars and conflits irrupts the supply of food chain. For instance the well know newspaper of NEW YORKS TIMES says that 50% of indidvuals die everyear due to hunger issue.

To address this issue, governments should invest in agriculture infracture and estabish effective food distribution system. This will leads to reduce the food wastage and improve transportion and storage facilities.For instances, urbanisation have already started this scheme and improve their immunity by providing the righteous amount of nutriton.

In conclusion, the right action should be taken in improving the public health and equally distributed food should be provided to the community.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.0

You identify two relevant causes—food waste and political instability—and propose government investment in agricultural infrastructure and food distribution. This gives the response a clear connection to both questions. However, the explanation is limited: the hotel example is brief, and the link between infrastructure and reducing waste is not made clear. The proposed response also needs more detail about how distribution would reach people facing hunger. The claim that 50% of individuals die each year from hunger is unsupported and appears implausible, so it weakens the example rather than supporting the argument. The conclusion repeats a general call for action without summarising the causes or explaining the solutions. The response is 56 words below the required minimum, which limits the opportunity to develop its ideas.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0

The response has a recognisable overall structure: an introduction, a paragraph on causes, a paragraph on solutions, and a conclusion. This helps the reader follow the broad direction of the essay. Linking expressions such as “Additionally,” “As a result,” and “To address this issue” signal relationships between points. However, progression within paragraphs is sometimes unclear: the example about urbanisation and “improve their immunity” does not clearly connect to the proposed distribution system. Some transitions feel mechanical, and punctuation spacing—for example, “eat.As a result”—interrupts the flow. To strengthen cohesion, make each example directly support its main point and use clear references to show how one sentence relates to the next.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You attempt topic-relevant vocabulary, including “political instability,” “food distribution system,” and “storage facilities,” which helps communicate the subject. There is also some effort to use more formal phrasing, such as “To address this issue.” However, spelling errors and inaccurate word choices are frequent enough to make parts of the response difficult to interpret: “agrument,” “straving,” “infracture,” and “righteous amount” are examples. Some combinations are unnatural, including “widespread of hunger” and “supply of food chain.” Aim for accurate, natural collocations rather than using ambitious wording whose meaning is unclear. Proofreading spelling and checking phrases in context would make your vocabulary more effective and precise.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You use a mixture of simple statements and attempts at longer structures, including a cause-and-effect sentence beginning “As a result” and a clause introduced by “because.” However, many sentences contain errors in sentence construction, verb forms, agreement, and articles, which sometimes make the meaning hard to follow. For example, “This will leads to reduce” combines incompatible verb forms, while “they ordered in larger amount” has an unclear tense and number agreement. The opening sentence is also difficult to parse because its clauses are not joined in a clear grammatical structure. Practise building accurate simple sentences first, then add subordinate clauses, checking subject–verb agreement, verb patterns, and punctuation.

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