Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.0 · Cambridge IELTS 11 · 2026-10-16

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 5.0)

Few people believe that waste from homes is not sufficiently recycled. They think that, government should take actions for increasing recycling by making laws.So, in the forthcoming paragraphs, I have suggested some reason behind this and, I have also provided some solutions associated with this trend.

Taking into account, there are few reason behind this such as people nowadays, are not aware about clenliness and they do not have courage to motivate other people for recycling of homes waste. In this era, people have many sources for making their surroundings tidy and health concious but, the fear of judgement and less confidance to motivate or sometimes stop others for what they doing wrong.

Moreover, individuals do not know benefits of recycling. Recycling process have several benefits and it is a best way to re-use waste materials to create useful and cost friendly products such as pencil, paper, tissue paper and also use for newspapers, which are related to daily needs for instance, pencil and paper are very crucial for everyone from students to elderly citizens.

Now taking into account some solutions of this problem, if government can take strict action and make coumpultion for recycling can helps to motivate citizens. In this modern era, rules are most important for guiding residents and organising a proper method, which follow by people of counnd try.

However, laws are really needed to save environment and use waste by converting precious and very helpful things to examplify, notebooks. If government can take some actions for saving environment and maintaining control on humans.

To conclude, people of this modern era are do not know the importance of recycling and not aware to maintain clenliness. So, government should make laws to control waste management and re-use them in better way.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.0

You take a position that governments should make recycling compulsory, and you mention relevant reasons, including limited public awareness and the benefits of reusing materials. However, the response only partially answers the question of how necessary laws are: it does not weigh legal requirements against other ways to increase recycling, such as education or convenient collection services. Several points are asserted rather than explained. For example, the claim that people lack the confidence to encourage others is not clearly connected to household recycling, and the examples of pencils and notebooks are not developed to show how laws would increase their production. State your degree of agreement clearly and support it with a specific, explained example.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.0

The response has an introduction, body paragraphs and a conclusion, and signposts such as “Moreover,” “However” and “To conclude” help identify stages of the discussion. However, the overall progression is not consistently clear: the first body paragraph discusses awareness and confidence, the next shifts to recycling benefits, and the later paragraphs repeat the case for government action without developing a distinct line of reasoning. Some linking phrases are awkward or overused, including “Taking into account” at the start of two sections. Connections between sentences are also sometimes unclear, particularly in the sentence beginning “In this modern era, rules are most important.” Organise each paragraph around one main point and use clearer references to show how examples support it.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

You attempt topic-related vocabulary, including “recycling,” “waste materials,” “surroundings” and “waste management,” and you try to use more formal expressions such as “Taking into account.” However, the range is limited and several word choices, collocations and spelling errors make parts difficult to understand. Examples include “clenliness,” “health concious,” “coumpultion” and “counnd try”; phrases such as “courage to motivate other people” and “strict action” are also imprecise in context. Repetition of “people,” “government” and “modern era” further limits variety. Build accuracy with common topic collocations such as “raise public awareness,” “separate household waste” and “enforce recycling regulations,” and check spelling and word forms carefully.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempt both simple and longer sentence forms, including conditional structures such as “if government can take strict action.” However, complex sentences are often faulty, and frequent errors in agreement, articles, verb forms and sentence construction can make meaning difficult to follow. For example, “Recycling process have several benefits” needs a singular subject and verb, while “can helps to motivate” uses an incorrect verb form. The sentence “people of this modern era are do not know” also combines incompatible verb structures. Punctuation is sometimes misplaced, with commas separating subjects from verbs or clauses awkwardly. Practise building accurate sentences first, then extend them with one clear subordinate clause at a time.

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