Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer
Overall Band Score: 5.5 · Cambridge IELTS 13 · 2026-09-17
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 5.5)
It is an undeniable fact that surrondings always impact the psychological development of a person. However, most of spectators admire to keep their things on their original place by maintaining a cleanliness either in their workplace or home. I think there are a plethora of reasons behind this phenomenon that I will explai in the upcoming paragraphs with my own opinion.
To commence with the causes, firstly, it reflects individual personality. For instance, if people after using their laptop, stationary and clothes put back on their place and clean the surface with paper or brom it shows their good qualities such as discipline, awareness regarding the environment and management skills. Secondly, it is a myth clean surrondings always attracts positivity. To explicate, well organised place helps spectators to enhance their creativity and imagination power by thinking about the ideas how they can embellished their house or workplace so it looks beautiful. On the other hand, messy things or choas give the feeling of frustated and negative.
According to my point of view, people should have to set rules and regulation so that they can able to maintain their discilpline in their life by maintaing a things on their place because it put their first impression on others and people always judge individuals on their traits. It also assist individual to get a promotion in their office if they follow all the rules and keep the surronding clean because it enhance th
AI examiner evaluation
| Criterion | Band |
|---|---|
| Task Achievement / Task Response | 5.0 |
| Coherence and Cohesion | 5.5 |
| Lexical Resource | 5.5 |
| Grammatical Range and Accuracy | 5.0 |
| Overall | 5.5 |
Task Achievement / Task Response — Band 5.0
The response covers the main prompt by discussing the importance of keeping a tidy home and workplace, providing reasons such as personality reflection and fostering positivity. However, the essay is truncated, finishing abruptly mid-sentence with 241 words, which fails to meet the minimum 250-word requirement. This under-length impacts full development and results in a penalty for Task Achievement. The position is stated, but the conclusion is entirely missing due to the word count cutoff, leaving ideas partially explored.
Coherence and Cohesion — Band 5.5
The essay displays a basic structure with an introduction, body paragraph, and a truncated final section. Cohesive devices are used to signal progression, such as 'To commence with', 'firstly', 'Secondly', and 'On the other hand'. However, referencing and transitions are sometimes clumsy, and the lack of a proper conclusion disrupts the overall logical flow. Paragraphing is attempted, but the final paragraph is cut short, reducing the overall coherence of the text.
Lexical Resource — Band 5.5
The writer attempts some less common vocabulary items such as 'plethora', 'phenomenon', and 'creativity and imagination power'. However, there are numerous spelling and word-choice errors throughout the text, including 'surrondings' instead of surroundings, 'brom' instead of broom, 'choas' instead of chaos, and 'frustated' instead of frustrated or frustration. These lexical inaccuracies and persistent spelling mistakes limit the score to Band 5.5.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy — Band 5.0
The student demonstrates an attempt at complex sentence structures, using conditional and relative clauses like 'if people after using their laptop... put back on their place'. However, there are frequent grammatical errors, such as missing prepositions ('put back on their place' instead of 'put them back in their place'), incorrect verb forms ('admire to keep', 'helps spectators to enhance'), and awkward phrasing ('people should have to set rules and regulation so that they can able to maintain'). Punctuation and sentence boundary errors also occur.
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