Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.5 · Cambridge IELTS 13 · 2026-10-30

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)

Each and every individual has their own way while keeping things in it's proper place. On part of people thinks that placing everthing in correct way, does not have any sense while other individual belive keeping everthing organize has lots of advantages. As such habit has lots of positive points, I really do like to keep my house and my space of work very well organize.

Undoubtedly, it has become very hard to sustain with such habit, as pace of life increased dramatically. One prime reason, people are not conscious about such small things is overload of work. For instance, nowadays people hardly got time to spend at their home and keep their things in correct place because of their tight schedule at their workplace. Another point for same thing is people still not aware about its pyscological merits.

At some extent people are giving importance to organise things at different places of their life as they knew its advantages. By doing such activity one can save lots of time, become more efficient and productive in their life. For example, One needs to find very old record book of his/her, book can be easily found by him/her if he keeping things organised is in their practice. so basically such practice reduce your physical activity also. Person feel deep sense of relaxness and clamness when find themselves around well organised places,it has been proven in study of pyscology.

However due to time constraint and busy routine practicing such things is difficult but taking consideration of it's physical and pyscological benefits, I am strongly believe that people should learn to practice everything at home and even at workplace in the right place.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0

Your position is clear: you support keeping both the home and workplace organised, and you give relevant reasons, including saving time, improving productivity, and feeling calmer. The example of locating an old record book helps illustrate the practical benefit. You also acknowledge why people may struggle to maintain this habit, which adds balance. However, some points are asserted rather than fully explained: the claim that organisation reduces physical activity is unclear, and the reference to a psychological study is not developed or specified. To strengthen the response, explain how each benefit follows from being organised and make the example more precise. Overall, you address the question, but some ideas are less fully developed than others.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0

The response has a recognisable overall structure: an introduction states your view, the middle paragraphs discuss difficulties and benefits, and the conclusion restates your opinion. Linking expressions such as “For instance,” “Another point,” and “However” help signal relationships between ideas. At times, though, the progression is not fully clear. The paragraph beginning “At some extent” moves quickly from general support to several benefits, and the connection between organisation and reduced physical activity is difficult to follow. Some references, such as “such things” and “same thing,” are also vague, while transitions can feel formulaic. Give each paragraph a clearer central point and use more precise references so readers can follow how each example supports your argument.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use a relevant range of vocabulary for the topic, including “overload of work,” “tight schedule,” “efficient and productive,” and “psychological merits.” These choices show an attempt to express more than basic ideas. However, inaccurate word forms, spelling, and collocations are noticeable and sometimes make the meaning less natural: “everthing,” “organize,” “relaxness,” and “clamness” need correction, while “sustain with such habit” is not an idiomatic expression. Repetition of “things,” “place,” and “people” also limits precision. Build accuracy by learning common word partnerships, such as “maintain an organised space,” and check spelling and word forms carefully. More precise vocabulary would make your reasons clearer and more fluent.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempt both simple and more complex sentence forms, including a reason clause in “because of their tight schedule” and a contrast introduced by “However.” The main ideas are generally understandable, but grammatical errors occur across the response and sometimes make sentences difficult to process. For example, “One prime reason, people are not conscious…” lacks a clear grammatical connection, and “I am strongly believe” uses an incorrect verb form. There are also problems with agreement and sentence construction in “one can save lots of time, become more efficient,” and punctuation is inconsistent, particularly around sentence boundaries. Practise building complete clauses and checking subject–verb forms, articles, and punctuation. Greater control of these patterns would make your varied sentence attempts more effective.

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