Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.0 · Cambridge IELTS 16 · 2026-11-03

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)

Some people spend most of their lives living close to where they were born, it is because they think they can easily to adapt good working environment with their habbit or daily routine that could be more effective for their evryday life.

For example, when you live near where you get work, it is very convenient to get to your work everyday easily without hasle or difficulties to travel from home to work. It means that if you familiarize to the environment you where live, you can easily to do what you want to do in the future, it is because you already comfortable to your neighbors and others in your community. This is might the reasons why more people are content to their lives, where they are come from.

In other hands, this is more advantage to them to feel that they are more safer when it comes to stays to their own properties, specially when they want to walk around to their community, they may familiar with other people living on that places. And it may have disadvantages to other people, it might be they cannot seen the more opportunity to other places, because they only rely on what they experiencing to their place where they think it is more comfortable for them. In conclusion that wether you spent more in your places where you born or not, it is understandable to determine that some people look for good opportunity to the other places far where they from, and on this matter if they succeed they choose to stay and plan to their future. But in the end they choose to back to their place where they live safe and with security.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.5

You address both questions: you suggest familiarity with work, neighbours and daily routines as reasons for staying, and identify safety and comfort as advantages, with fewer opportunities elsewhere as a disadvantage. These points are relevant, but several are repeated or only briefly explained. For instance, the claim that familiarity makes people “more content to their lives” is not clearly connected to why they remain near their birthplace. The final point about people moving away for opportunities and later returning introduces a useful contrast, but its relevance and outcome are not fully explained. To strengthen the response, develop each reason and each side of the evaluation with a clear explanation or a specific example, and make your overall view easier to follow.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.0

The response has some organisation: it begins with reasons, moves to advantages and disadvantages, and ends with a conclusion. Examples such as travelling from home to work help illustrate the first point. However, the progression within paragraphs is not always clear, and several ideas run together in long sentences. Linking phrases such as “In other hands” and “In conclusion that” are inaccurate, while repeated references to “where” and “it is because” make connections feel mechanical. The conclusion also shifts between moving away and returning without clearly linking this to the earlier discussion. Use clearer paragraph divisions for reasons, advantages and disadvantages, and conclusions, and connect each point with precise transitions and references.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

You use a basic range of topic-related vocabulary, including “working environment,” “community,” “opportunity,” and “security,” so the main ideas are generally understandable. However, vocabulary is limited and several word choices or collocations are inaccurate, sometimes making meaning difficult to interpret. For example, “adapt good working environment” and “content to their lives” do not express the intended ideas naturally; “more safer” is also an incorrect form. Spelling errors such as “habbit,” “evryday,” and “wether” further reduce accuracy. Build a more precise range for discussing familiarity, local ties and career prospects, and check spelling and common word combinations before submitting.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempt both simple and longer sentences, including clauses introduced by “when,” “because” and “if.” This shows an effort to explain relationships between ideas, but complex sentences are often faulty, and frequent errors can make the reader work to understand them. Examples include “it is because they think they can easily to adapt,” “without hasle or difficulties to travel,” and “they are come from.” There are also problems with sentence boundaries and clause structure, as in the opening sentence, which joins two complete ideas with a comma. Practise accurate verb patterns, such as “can adapt” and “without having to travel,” and use shorter, correctly punctuated sentences when a longer structure becomes difficult to control.

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