Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.0 · Cambridge IELTS 14 · 2026-10-06

IELTS Writing Task 2 question

Nowadays many people choose to be self-employed, rather than to work for a company or organisation.

Why might this be the case?

What could be the disadvantages of being self-employed?

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

Student answer (Band 5.0)

Some people choose to be self-employed, rather than to work for a company or organisation. there have both advantages and disadvantages. In my opinion self-employed is better than work in company.

One reason why people choose to be self- employment is freedom. It is better than a worked in company under pressure her boss. many people choose self-employment because they can choose their working hours and manage time. they can comfortablity run buisness and no worry about time and working pressure.Moreover people make their own money and use their money according to need. It is a good option for living life better and enjoyabale with family and friends. There are many options for making self-employment like amazon, ebby and other online platfoams.people have oppournity to make more money. If their buisness become successful they can make more money instead of fixed salary.

However, other people believe that self-employment has many drawbacks. you can mentally prepared for financial loss in buisness. unlike self-employe people may not have fixed money. Their have few customer and ups and downs are mange in buisness.

From my perspective, i prefer self-employee rather than work in company. the reason is that our young generation is not for godd in company thats the reason self-employeement is better op

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.0

First, it must be noted that the response contains only 197 words, which fails to meet the minimum 250-word requirement (with 15 words copied from the prompt excluded from the count). Consequently, the task is only partially addressed. The writer attempts to answer both parts of the prompt by discussing reasons for self-employment, such as freedom and flexibility, and drawbacks, such as financial loss and income instability. However, these ideas remain limited and under-developed, lacking sufficient extension or specific examples from personal knowledge. The writer's position is discernible in places like "In my opinion self-employed is better than work in company," but the overall development is truncated and superficial, keeping the response at this level.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.0

The text demonstrates some organisation through basic paragraphing and rudimentary transitions like "One reason" and "However." However, there is a lack of clear overall progression, and the logical flow between sentences is frequently disrupted. Cohesive devices are often inadequate, inaccurate, or repetitive, such as the frequent reuse of "make more money" and mechanical referencing like "their have few customer and ups and downs are mange in buisness." Paragraphing is attempted, but internal cohesion within the body paragraphs is weak, meaning information and ideas do not progress smoothly from one point to the next.

Lexical Resource: Band 4.5

The vocabulary used is limited and minimally adequate for conveying basic ideas. There are numerous noticeable errors in word choice, word form, and spelling that occasionally cause difficulty for the reader. Examples include spelling errors like "buisness," "ebby" (eBay), "platfoams" (platforms), "oppournity" (opportunity), and "godd" (good). Grammatical forms of words are also misused, such as employing "self-employee" instead of the noun form "self-employment" or the adjective "self-employed." These persistent lexical slips and basic vocabulary choices prevent the response from achieving a higher band.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 4.5

The writer displays a very limited range of sentence structures, relying mostly on simple sentences with frequent attempts at complex structures that turn out faulty. There are frequent errors in grammar, punctuation, and agreement that can cause difficulty for the reader. Notable errors include missing auxiliaries and copula verbs ("there have both advantages", "work in company"), incorrect prepositional patterns ("worked in company under pressure her boss"), subject-verb agreement issues ("Their have few customer"), and pronoun confusion. These frequent, systemic errors heavily restrict the grammatical score.

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