Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.0 · 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 5.0)

In the modern era, Its rapidly changing world this issue has become a matter of considerable debate. People some like a lives in worn place. They like a village culture and lives with a family. The main reasons behind this trend and discuss its significant effect. Both reasons and disadvantages.

To commence with, first main reason this some people spend most lives a born place. Because people like there weather and culture. They make the many friends since childhood. They always stay on parents and most time spend with family. There spend most time therefore like a lives a together and almost village in joint family and sbilings most time spend on a play and understand the all family members and all time present help a family members.

However, there are various negative effects of this lives a born place. the main disadvantages is people not understand the other city and there culture. people not understand the other people with commnicate and see the outdoor place activity. People mostly like lives a born place but other city lives is very important because they not lives other city and not improve a outdoor skills and not watch a world condition. Rather lives a born city is important and this many disadvantage. Both side many advantages and reasons.

To conclude after pondering over deal of delibertions and thoughts. There are various effect on new genrations because they not understand the other country culture and activities. people mostly like a village culture and lives with family.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.0

You identify plausible reasons for staying near one’s birthplace, including attachment to local culture, childhood friendships, and living with family. You also mention a disadvantage: limited exposure to other cities and cultures. However, the response only partially answers the task because the advantages are not clearly explained as a separate part, and the discussion of disadvantages remains general. For example, “not improve a outdoor skills” does not make the intended consequence clear. The opening says the essay will discuss “reasons and disadvantages,” while the conclusion mainly repeats the reasons, so your overall position is not consistently established. Develop each requested part with a clear explanation and a specific example, such as how family support benefits someone or how limited mobility may affect career opportunities.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.0

The response has a basic paragraph structure: an introduction, a paragraph about reasons, a paragraph about disadvantages, and a conclusion. This gives the reader some sense of organisation. However, there is no clear progression within several paragraphs, and ideas are often repeated rather than connected. Phrases such as “To commence with,” “However,” and “To conclude” signal stages, but they cannot compensate for unclear links between points. For instance, the first body paragraph moves from weather and culture to friends, parents, siblings, and family help without showing how these details relate. The conclusion also introduces “new generations” without developing that point earlier. Group related ideas, use clear topic sentences, and explain each point before moving to the next.

Lexical Resource: Band 4.5

You use some relevant topic vocabulary, including “culture,” “family,” “friends,” “disadvantages,” and “other city,” so the general subject can be recognised. However, the range is limited and many phrases are repeated or inaccurately formed, which sometimes makes the meaning difficult to follow. Examples include “a lives in worn place,” “a born place,” and “watch a world condition.” Spelling and word-form problems such as “commnicate,” “delibertions,” and “genrations” also reduce clarity. Aim to learn accurate collocations for this topic and use them consistently: for example, “remain in their hometown,” “maintain close family ties,” and “gain exposure to different cultures.” Check spelling and whether each noun or verb fits the sentence.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 4.5

You attempt to express reasons and consequences, and there are a few longer sentence attempts, but the range of sentence structures is limited and errors are frequent enough to make several ideas hard to understand. Many clauses lack a complete grammatical structure, as in “Because people like there weather and culture” and “They always stay on parents.” Subject–verb agreement, articles, and sentence construction are also problematic in “the main disadvantages is people not understand the other city.” Punctuation and capitalisation are inconsistent, including the lowercase starts after full stops and the comma splice in “Rather lives a born city is important and this many disadvantage.” Practise building accurate simple sentences first, then join them with “because,” “although,” and “which” while checking verb forms and articles.

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