Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.0 · Cambridge IELTS 13 · 2026-09-12

IELTS Writing Task 2 question

Some people say it is important to keep your home and your workplace tidy, with everything organised and in the correct place.

What is your opinion about this?

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

 

Student answer (Band 5.0)

Most of individuals think that it is essential to keep your accommodation and workplace neat and clean with everything is well organised. I completely agree with this statement because keeping homes and workplace tidy it helps to reduce stress and can improve productivity.

To begin with, keeping home and workplace organised to save a time. To illustrate it, when everything is kept it on there proper place so people can find things easily without wasting time. For example, if employee keep ther desk neat and clean and put their documents and other stuff on their peoper way it helps to find things easily and he do not feel stressed when he find something in hurry. Similarly, at home, if we keep their stuff on the proper place we can find easily and do not panic and home looks like well organised.

Furthermore, clean and organized en ironmenr can helps to reduce stress or anxiety and feel more comfortable atmosphere. For example, if person do not keep their things on there proper place they feel more distracted. In contrast, a tidy room and workplace can provide a sense of calm and peaceful environment.

To conclude, I strongly believe that keeping home and office areas neat and clean are important. It helps to increase productivity and feel more confident.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response — Band 5.0

The response addresses the prompt by clearly stating a position agreeing that keeping homes and workplaces tidy is important, and supports this with two main ideas: reducing time wasted looking for items and reducing stress. However, the task achievement is hindered significantly by two factors. Firstly, the response is under-length, containing only 217 words against the required 250-word minimum, which leads to under-developed arguments. Secondly, there is a tendency to over-generalize without fully extending the examples provided, such as mentioning an employee keeping a desk clean without deep elaboration. Because of the under-length penalty and limited development of ideas, the response meets the criteria for Band 5.0.

Coherence and Cohesion — Band 5.0

The essay displays a clear overall organization with an introduction, two body paragraphs featuring distinct supporting points, and a conclusion. Paragraphing is used appropriately to separate ideas. However, cohesion within sentences and paragraphs is often faulty, mechanical, or repetitive. For instance, the student relies heavily on basic cohesive devices like 'To begin with' and 'Furthermore', but struggles with accurate referencing and transitional phrasing, as seen in 'when everything is kept it on there proper place so people can find things easily'. Additionally, referencing is sometimes unclear, such as shifting abruptly between plural and singular pronouns ('if employee... and he do not feel stressed'). Overall arrangement is coherent enough, but the mechanical nature of cohesive devices and faulty referencing place this firmly at Band 5.0.

Lexical Resource — Band 5.0

The student uses a limited but minimally adequate range of vocabulary suitable for discussing the topic of organization and stress reduction. Words like 'productivity', 'anxiety', and 'atmosphere' demonstrate an attempt to use appropriate language. However, the lexical resource is restricted by frequent spelling, word choice, and word formation errors, such as 'Most of individuals' instead of 'Most individuals', 'save a time' instead of 'save time', 'en ironmenr' instead of 'environment', and confusing 'their', 'there', and 'they're'. These noticeable errors cause some difficulty for the reader and reflect a vocabulary range that struggles beyond basic descriptive terms, aligning closely with the Band 5.0 descriptors.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy — Band 5.0

The response shows an attempt to use a mix of simple and complex sentence structures, such as conditional structures ('if we keep their stuff on the proper place we can find easily'). However, the grammatical accuracy is weak, with frequent errors occurring across almost every sentence. Examples include subject-verb agreement issues like 'keeping homes and workplace tidy it helps', prepositional errors like 'kept it on there proper place', and missing articles. Attempts at complex sentences are frequently faulty or structurally clumsy, such as 'if person do not keep their things on there proper place they feel more distracted'. While communication is rarely completely blocked, the high frequency of grammatical errors places this text at a Band 5.0.

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