Band 4.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 4.0 · Cambridge IELTS 11 · 2026-09-14

IELTS Writing Task 2 question

Some people claim that not enough of the waste from homes is recycled. They say that the only way to increase recycling is for governments to make it a legal requirement.

To what extent do you think laws are needed to make people recycle more of their waste?

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

Student answer (Band 4.0)

It definitely the laws is very needed to make pepole or recycled the thinks. The should take a big action to replacement and recycled the damged areas.

Moreover, some people keeps the thinks is not recycl in this prosses is waste a time. On their opinion thinks is not recycled to buy new thinks. And furthermore the other pepole is old thinks is better than a new thinks to do recycling and is different benefits of society to overall country.

In my country the recents year the difference product people or used and be cover is thrown the backward place, to bad effects in children and other people. Government take a big action to recycling prosses in different material like bottles, paper etc. The environment is save and cleaning, and saving money in this process is much better to society.

Different ways in recycling in underworld to other countries waste materials is not throw the dustbin, to buy every person in different prize is best action to recycle the thinks. Government to built a big recycling factories in country . We should the waste thinks is saved and sell to the government the house and different public places is clean and beautiful the human begin is happy and spend good life.

In conclusion the people should dont waste materials and make be recycled is benifit to saveing the money and time. Time is very important to everyone if one men not waste the time ti run the progress and maje a successful person.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response — Band 4.0

The response attempts to address the prompt regarding whether governments should make recycling a legal requirement, offering a position that laws are necessary. However, the development of ideas is severely limited and difficult to follow due to widespread linguistic issues. While the writer mentions government action, recycling processes, and environmental benefits, the arguments remain underdeveloped and lack clear, logical expansion. The points made regarding people throwing waste in backward places or selling waste to the government are disjointed and do not form a coherent line of reasoning. Consequently, the response aligns most closely with the Band 4 descriptor, as the ideas are minimally presented and the overall fulfillment of the task is impeded by the lack of clear, relevant argument development.

Coherence and Cohesion — Band 4.0

The essay lacks clear logical organisation and progression. Although basic transitional markers like 'Moreover', 'And furthermore', and 'In conclusion' are attempted, they are often misused or placed inappropriately, failing to create a smooth flow of ideas. Paragraphing is attempted, but the internal structure of the paragraphs is chaotic, with sentences jumping between unrelated points about laws, waste processing, and personal time management. Referencing is frequently unclear, making it hard to determine what pronouns and phrases refer to. As a result, the arrangement of information does not meet the requirements for Band 5, settling firmly at Band 4 where information and ideas are not arranged coherently.

Lexical Resource — Band 4.0

The vocabulary used is basic, highly repetitive, and often inaccurate. Words are frequently misused, such as 'thinks' instead of 'things', 'prosses' instead of 'process', and 'prize' instead of 'price'. Phrases like 'backward place' and 'human begin' further illustrate a very limited control over lexical selection and word formation. There is no successful attempt at less common or academic vocabulary, and spelling errors are numerous and pervasive throughout the text. These frequent errors and the severely restricted range of vocabulary strain the reader and place the performance at a Band 4 level.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy — Band 4.0

Grammatical control is extremely weak throughout the response. There is a very limited range of sentence structures, and almost all complex or compound attempts are heavily flawed. Frequent errors include missing verbs, incorrect subject-verb agreement (e.g., 'the laws is very needed', 'pepole or recycled'), incorrect word forms, and broken sentence boundaries (e.g., run-on fragments). Punctuation is also problematic. Because errors are frequent, severe, and constantly distort meaning, making the text very difficult for the reader to decipher, the writing fits the Band 4 descriptors.

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