Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.0 · Cambridge IELTS 13 · 2026-09-14

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)

In this time many people think it is very important to keep our home and workplace should be always organized and in the correct place.In my opinion some time it is useful and some time boring. I discuss both view following parameters.

Firstly, people think that the home and workplace always be clean and organized it has very good habits in daily routine life.people can easily find all necessary items and it is easy way to remember all things. Well organized item it is look very pretty and attractive.

On other hand , some time well organized home and workplace feel like boring and frustrated because every day show same things and same look. In a routine life do nothing any interesting things.

In my opinion, I recommend well organized only work place because we are doing our job so our table was well organized we can do easily work and complete all or task at on time.if Our desk was not well organized and maintained so some time important things can not fined easy way and waste of our lot of time. Still if we can not find we got angry and could not finished work

on time.

AI examiner evaluation

CriterionBand
Task Achievement / Task Response5.0
Coherence and Cohesion5.0
Lexical Resource4.5
Grammatical Range and Accuracy4.5
Overall5.0

Task Achievement / Task Response — Band 5.0

The response addresses the prompt by expressing an opinion on whether keeping homes and workplaces tidy is important, acknowledging both useful and boring aspects. However, the ideas are under-developed and limited in scope, partly due to falling short of the required 250-word minimum, containing only 199 words. The position shifts somewhat, concluding that only the workplace needs to be organized rather than both home and workplace, but the arguments remain basic and lack extended support or specific personal examples. Consequently, the task is addressed only partially, placing this response at Band 5.0.

Coherence and Cohesion — Band 5.0

The text is organized into brief paragraphs with some basic transitional markers such as 'Firstly', 'On other hand', and 'In my opinion'. However, progression is somewhat disjointed and referencing is not always clear, leading to a mechanical feel. Paragraphing is attempted, but the body paragraphs are very short and lack internal cohesion. Furthermore, repetitive phrasing like 'well organized' detracts from smooth flow. Overall progression is limited, warranting a Band 5.0 for coherence and cohesion.

Lexical Resource — Band 4.5

The vocabulary used is basic and repetitive, frequently reusing terms like 'organized', 'workplace', 'home', and 'routine life'. There are noticeable word choice and collocation errors, such as 'show same things', 'do nothing any interesting things', 'complete all or task at on time', and 'fined easy way'. While the vocabulary is minimally adequate to convey the basic message, the limited range and frequent inaccuracies constrain the lexical score to Band 4.5.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy — Band 4.5

The writer attempts a mix of simple and complex sentence forms, but control is weak. There are frequent grammatical errors, missing articles, and punctuation issues throughout the text, for example: 'In this time many people think it is very important to keep our home and workplace should be always organized', 'some time well organized home and workplace feel like boring and frustrated', and 'Still if we can not find we got angry'. These frequent errors cause some difficulty for the reader and restrict the grammar score to Band 4.5.

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