Band 4.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 4.0 · Cambridge IELTS 11 · 2026-09-17

IELTS Writing Task 2 question

Some people say that in all levels of education, from primary schools to universities, too much time is spent on learning facts and not enough on learning practical skills.

Do you agree or disagree?

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

 

Student answer (Band 4.0)

Many individual feel that from the start to the end of universities education is wast too much time and no life save for learing other skills

Education is the type knowlege which is extermly curcial for all the human for instance men and women. The socity whose less education system they will less develop in his persnol life.

I belife that education is better for us without education development is very immposable and we cannot understand eachothere.

however otherhand education take much time of our life opraximently from the foundation of education to the end we spend therty year for degree acheviment its half time of life.

After the compeleted degree some people have been taking too much time for searching job and they have no partical skills these person wast thier life in wrong for instance some time they doing one job some time and some time jion other jobs in the last there age is over for job they take retirment for there career.

instead of education if they learn skill they could safe their life and they earn for there feature and also for there family and support them for long time.

overall, I agree that many people wast there time in his education some time this is not useful for them and they having no skill to do something for lievehood they become a useless for there socity and

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response — Band 4.0

The response addresses the prompt regarding whether too much time is spent on learning facts rather than practical skills in education. The writer takes a clear position agreeing with this view. However, the ideas remain quite limited and under-developed due to insufficient elaboration and repetitive arguments. Furthermore, the response falls short of the 250-word minimum, containing only 233 words. This negative word count requires a penalty under Task Achievement, bringing the score down into the Band 4 range. To achieve a higher score, the writer must ensure the word count exceeds 250 words and expand upon ideas with detailed explanations and relevant examples.

Coherence and Cohesion — Band 4.0

The text shows some basic paragraphing, but the overall organization and logical progression are weak. Transitions between ideas are frequently abrupt or missing, and cohesive devices are inadequate, inaccurate, or repetitive, such as the frequent reliance on 'for instance' and 'some time'. Referencing is also unclear in places, making it difficult for the reader to follow the flow of argument. For example, sentences like 'After the compeleted degree some people have been taking too much time for searching job...' lack smooth integration. Overall, the structural progression of the essay is heavily disrupted by these cohesion issues, placing it firmly in Band 4.

Lexical Resource — Band 4.0

The vocabulary is basic and repetitive, with numerous word-choice and spelling errors that strain the reader's understanding. Examples of errors include 'wast' instead of 'waste', 'learing' instead of 'learning', 'knowlege' instead of 'knowledge', 'extermly' instead of 'extremely', 'socity' instead of 'society', 'persnol' instead of 'personal', 'immposable' instead of 'impossible', and 'eachothere' instead of 'each other'. There is a very limited range of vocabulary used, and uncommon lexical items are not attempted successfully. This level of lexical control corresponds to Band 4 descriptors.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy — Band 4.0

The grammatical range is very limited, consisting mostly of simple and attempted complex sentences that are heavily flawed. There are frequent, pervasive errors in tense, subject-verb agreement, and sentence structure that often distort the meaning, such as 'Many individual feel that from the start to the end of universities education is wast too much time' and 'in the last there age is over for job they take retirment for there career.' Punctuation is also poorly handled, with run-on sentences and missing terminal punctuation in the final paragraph. Because errors are frequent and cause considerable difficulty for the reader, a Band 4 score is appropriate.

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