Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.5 · Cambridge IELTS 13 · 2026-10-31

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)

Individuals say it is important to keep your home and your workplace tidy with everything oranized and in the correct place. In my opinion, It is the need but to some limits with proper manner to achieve positive results.

First and foremost, we need to have knowledge of why it is crucial to have clean enviroment inside of your jobsite or your residence. firstly this proves productivty by providing sence of having some already done without even starting work. Secondly, it saves a lot of time, by keeping items on their place would make it easy to find when we need them. Thirdly, we are always ready for vistiers, whether it is Boss or Reletives. you would present your best impression on them.

However, these benefits might comes with a cost. It has been seen in recent study by York university, those people who once embarks the habbit of keeping things clean all the times might develop not harmful but stress causing mental issues. these people could evolve bad habbit to start giving too much efforts than requierd plus stress over planning fixing them all the time. In result, they become stressed and dipressed looking imeperfections.

it is genrally recommend to keep it clean and let things go with the flow, gradually fixing keeps it stress free and clean which is just enough not too percfect.

in breif, it is important to keep it clean no matter if it is home or work whicle we matintain the mental peace.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0

You give a clear, qualified opinion: tidiness is important, but it should be maintained “to some limits” so that it does not harm mental well-being. Your reasons—greater productivity, saving time, and making a good impression on visitors—are relevant, and you also explain the possible stress caused by excessive tidiness. However, some points are asserted rather than developed: for example, the reference to a York University study is not explained or supported with a specific example, and the final recommendation could be clearer. The response is 235 words, so it is 15 words below the 250-word minimum; the 14 words copied from the prompt are not counted. Develop one or two examples further to address the task more fully.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0

The response has a recognisable overall structure: an introduction, a paragraph presenting benefits, a contrasting paragraph about possible stress, and a conclusion. Sequencing phrases such as “First and foremost,” “Secondly,” and “However” help readers follow the main direction. At times, though, the linking feels mechanical, and the list of three benefits is not developed into a clear progression. Some references are also unclear, particularly “these people” and “them” in the discussion of stress and tidying. The final recommendation and conclusion repeat the general point without fully resolving how to balance cleanliness with flexibility. Use fewer list-like transitions, connect each example explicitly to your opinion, and make pronoun references precise.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

You use a relevant range of vocabulary for the topic, including “productivity,” “impression,” “stress,” and “imperfections,” and you attempt more specific expressions such as “mental issues.” However, spelling and word-choice errors are noticeable and sometimes make the reader pause: examples include “oranized,” “enviroment,” “vistiers,” and “dipressed.” Some combinations are also unnatural, such as “proves productivity” and “giving too much efforts.” Choose more natural collocations and check spelling carefully; for instance, say that an organised environment “can improve productivity” and that people may “spend too much time trying to keep everything in order.” This would make your meaning clearer and your vocabulary more precise.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempt both simple and more complex sentence forms, including a contrast introduced by “However” and a relative clause in “people who once embarks the habbit.” The main ideas are generally understandable, but some grammatical errors affect clarity. For example, “these benefits might comes” needs the base verb “come,” while “by keeping items on their place would make it easy” has an incomplete construction. There are also problems with articles, agreement, and sentence boundaries, as in “clean enviroment” and the lower-case “it” beginning a new sentence. Practise building complete clauses and checking subject–verb agreement, articles, and punctuation. More accurate control of these structures would make your argument easier to read.

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