Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Cambridge IELTS 16 · 2026-11-12

IELTS Writing Task 2 question

Some people spend most of their lives living close to where they were born.

What might be the reasons for this?

What are the advantages and disadvantages?

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

 

Student answer (Band 6.0)

People keep relocating themselves as per their need and as per the oppurtunities they get in the current city. Some people spend their whole life living close to where they belong from and does not move anywere else. We will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of living nearby to the born city in the further paragraphs.

To begin with, it depends on personal decision that what can be the reason of not going anywhere else. According to me, the main reason can be the increment of expenses to live or shift to other location. It will be never the same expenses everwhere, as it varies place to place. For some people, the language barrier becomes a problem for not moving to an unknown area. Although, there are few people who does not want to leave thier motherland and work somewhere else as they feel that destiny is always decided and so do we are connected with what it provides. On recalling more reasons, individuals who lives alone or lives with their old aged parents, they have to take care of them and so do not want to leave them in the time when they need our support and help the most.

Advantages of being at the same location are very few. One of it is to be familiar with everyone in this town. Furthermore, knowing every street it is easier to find needed things and does not have to waste time in search of that one particular thing. Also, easy as well as familiar access of transportation as one uses daily at same time and so is available being in the same city for long period of time. Additionally, during festival times one can celebrate it with their loved ones and families. Living at same place also saves up the extra moeny such as rent, extra electricity bills, parking charges and much more. It is also easy for an individual to visit religious places as they know very well.

Despite the advantages, I think there are more disadvantages for living close to where they born. Firstly, it does not allow one to communicate with other poeple and get socialize with them. Also, it does gives more oppertunities living in a big city. Though competetion may get tough but still can get way better job depending upon your skills and also with good salary. Secondly, one will get lot of different ways to spend their free time as every location has variety of entertainment spots like sports club, gyms, party club and much more. One more disadvantage is that , they might does not face the real struggle of life , it feels like being dependent as well as happy with what they have. One will also never learn to adjust the expenses if they live in their own city. Unfortunately, an individual will also never have that eagerness to learn new things or to accept the new lifestyle in other city or culture. It will be totally a new experience for those who leave their city and move to somewhere else. For example, they will come to know about new diversity, new poeple, new locations, new oppertunities and much more.

To conclude this, I will strongly say that the opinion of being in the same city will not let one grow their skills. It can might be helpful according them but keeping in mind about better future, it is not suitable. Beacuse one cannot upbring his life while staying inside the comfort zone. Everybody has to keep learning new things , just so that experience is more important than being in comfortability.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.5

You address all parts of the prompt: you suggest reasons for staying near one’s birthplace, then discuss advantages and disadvantages, and your conclusion makes your view clear that moving can support personal growth. The reasons—such as living costs, language barriers, and caring for elderly parents—are relevant. The advantages and disadvantages are also illustrated with examples, including familiar transport and access to wider job opportunities. However, some points are asserted rather than explained: for instance, the claim that staying nearby prevents people from socialising is not fully supported, and the idea that people may not learn to manage expenses needs clarification. The response covers the task well overall, but fuller explanation and more precise support for these less-developed ideas would strengthen it further.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.5

The response has a clear overall structure: an introduction, a paragraph on reasons, separate paragraphs for advantages and disadvantages, and a conclusion. This makes the main stages of the argument easy to follow. You also use a range of linking expressions, including “To begin with,” “Furthermore,” and “Despite the advantages.” At times, however, the links feel mechanical or the progression within a paragraph becomes list-like, particularly in the long disadvantages paragraph. Some references are also unclear, such as “it does gives more opportunities,” where the subject and intended comparison are difficult to identify. Group related points and explain each before moving on; use pronouns and transitions that make the relationship between ideas explicit.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use enough topic-related vocabulary to discuss relocation, including “language barrier,” “motherland,” “transportation,” “competition,” and “entertainment spots.” There are also attempts at less common expressions, such as “comfort zone” and “diversity.” However, noticeable spelling, word-choice, and collocation errors reduce precision: “oppurtunities,” “everwhere,” “moeny,” and “eagerness to learn” are examples. Several phrases are unnatural or unclear, including “where they belong from,” “easy as well as familiar access of transportation,” and “upbring his life.” These errors do not prevent the reader from understanding the overall message, but they make parts of it harder to interpret. Focus on accurate collocations and check spelling and word forms during revision.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempt both simple and complex sentences, using clauses with “Although,” “as,” and “when,” as well as longer sentences to develop your points. However, control is inconsistent, and errors occur across verb forms, agreement, and sentence construction. For example, “Some people … does not move” should use a plural verb, while “individuals who lives alone” also has an agreement error. In “it does gives more opportunities,” the auxiliary is followed by an incorrect verb form; “It can might be helpful” combines incompatible modal verbs. Some long sentences join several ideas without clear grammatical boundaries, which makes them difficult to follow. Practise building accurate complex sentences and check subject–verb agreement, modal patterns, and sentence boundaries.

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