Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer
Overall Band Score: 5.0 · Cambridge IELTS 14 · 2026-09-22
IELTS Writing Task 2 question
The growth of online shopping will one day lead to all shops in towns and cities closing.
Do you agree or disagree?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
Student answer (Band 5.0)
In the recent years, demand for shopping through the use of interent is increasingly rapidly. Considering this fact, some people think that with the growth of digital shopping leads to closing of all traditional shops one day in towns as well as cities. I partially agree with this as convienence or Afforadable prices but at the same time physical stores play curial roles.
To commence with, online shopping provide convienance and comfort to society. As anyone can purchase any thing through online site. within few seconds. And they don't need to go out from their home as well as save time. For instance, a survey was conducted by company Amazon in 2015, they found that there has been significant increase in there sales by adding wide range varities of items on their shopping apps. The evidence proves that public is interested to purchase online more.
On the other hand, physical stores plays important role in every one's life. As by visiting them anyone can check the quality, fibres and durability. Moreover, by doing shopping physically people feel pleasure and enjoy outing with their friends that not possible online. Apart from that shops are beauty of the market as some shop are well known for their services and products. Therefore, these are not closed owing to use of internet.
Overall, Although online shopping save a lot of time as well as provide cheap prices, the importance of physical stores cannot be neglected.
AI examiner evaluation
| Criterion | Band |
|---|---|
| Task Achievement / Task Response | 5.0 |
| Coherence and Cohesion | 5.0 |
| Lexical Resource | 5.0 |
| Grammatical Range and Accuracy | 5.0 |
| Overall | 5.0 |
Task Achievement / Task Response — Band 5.0
The response addresses the prompt by discussing both sides of the issue regarding the potential closure of physical shops due to online shopping, establishing a partial agreement position. However, the development of ideas is somewhat limited and repetitive, particularly in the body paragraphs where convenience and social aspects are mentioned without deep extension. Furthermore, the length requirement has not been met, as the essay contains 241 words, falling short of the 250-word minimum. This under-length constraint prevents the response from achieving a higher band score, as the overall exploration of the topic remains somewhat brief and underdeveloped. Consequently, these factors align the task achievement performance with a Band 5.0.
Coherence and Cohesion — Band 5.0
The essay displays a basic overall structure with a clear introduction, two body paragraphs, and a brief conclusion. However, the logical progression is occasionally hindered by abrupt transitions and poor sentence boundary punctuation, such as fragmented sentence structures in the introduction ('As convienence or Afforadable prices but at the same time physical stores play curial roles.') and body paragraphs. Cohesive devices are used, but they are often basic or mechanically applied (e.g., 'To commence with', 'On the other hand'). Paragraphing is present, but internal cohesion within paragraphs suffers from run-on structures and unclear referencing. These organizational and cohesive shortcomings are characteristic of a Band 5.0 performance.
Lexical Resource — Band 5.0
The student uses a limited but minimally adequate range of vocabulary to discuss online and offline shopping, incorporating terms such as 'convenience', 'durability', and 'outting'. However, there are numerous spelling and word-choice errors throughout the text, including 'interent' for internet, 'convienence' for convenience, 'Afforadable' for affordable, 'curial' for crucial, and 'varities' for varieties. These lexical errors and awkward word formations ('shops are beauty of the market') cause noticeable strain and difficulty for the reader, which firmly places this lexical performance at a Band 5.0 level.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy — Band 5.0
The student attempts a mix of simple and complex sentence structures, but control over grammar is weak. There are frequent and systematic errors in article usage, preposition selection, subject-verb agreement, and sentence completeness (e.g., 'Considering this fact, some people think that with the growth of digital shopping leads to closing...', 'As anyone can purchase any thing through online site. within few seconds.'). Many complex sentences are faulty and contain major structural flaws. Although the meaning is generally accessible despite the grammatical strain, the high frequency of errors prevents the writing from reaching a higher band, making Band 5.0 the most accurate descriptor.
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