Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.5 · Cambridge IELTS 14 · 2026-11-12

IELTS Writing Task 2 question

Some people think it's better to choose friends who always have the same opinions as them. Other people believe it's good to have friends who sometimes disagree with them.

Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.

Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

 

Student answer (Band 5.5)

Friends play a vital role in our daily life because we can share our feelings and travel with them. Nowadays, people love to have a more friends for traveling. while making the friends, sometimes people choose the friends who have the same vibe or same agemate on the other hand, some choose the friend totally opposite to them. In the upcoming paragraph, I am going to describe about the both point of views that why people choose the friends who have the same season and why other others choose friend who have the different opinions.

Firstly, the people who have the friends with the same decision are always at the same age. Because they think that if they have the same opinion friend then their friendship can be longlasting. Moreover, it can reduce the conflict between them, and also they feel very calm and stressfulness because they can easily share their feelings or personal problems without any hesitation. Additionally. If they are having a any problem, they can relate with each other without any problem. For example, 2 person at the same age are in high school. They can relate the pressure of study and strictness done by their families. And in the meantime, they can share their problems with each other and relate with them, which make them a good friends because they think that other person can totally relate with them and they understand them very well.

On the other hand, the people who make the friends with the different opinion and sometime they disagree with them. This kind of friends have friends in their age and have different values which make them opposite. sometime this friendship give the advantage and sometime drawback. firstly, if someone need a different suggestion than them then the people with the different opinion can easily help them. On the other hand if they are going to do the same thing from their own method, that can make them disagree with each other I can conflict between them. In this modern era, people don't like the friends who disagree with them, but some of them do like. for example, two best friend girls having a night dinner party at their home and they decide to wear a red dress, but another one disagree with her and another one want to wear a yellow dress this conversation build a conflict between them. Moreover, it can broke their friendship too.

in conclusion, people having the friends with the same decision are more happy than the friends with the different decision. Because they can easily share their feelings or understand each other very well, and on other side, other friendship can create a conflict between them because of disagreement and unable to understand each other, which broke their friendship.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.5

You discuss both views and give a clear preference for friends with similar opinions in the conclusion, so the response addresses the main parts of the task. The first body paragraph explains how shared experiences may help friends understand one another, and the school-pressure example supports this point. However, the discussion is only partly developed: the claim that friends with the same opinions are “always at the same age” does not follow from the task, and the opposing view is presented mainly through a disagreement about clothing rather than the potential value of different perspectives. Explain more fully how disagreement can encourage learning or better decisions, then weigh that benefit against your preference. Your position is present, but its reasoning needs clearer development.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.5

The response has an introduction, separate paragraphs for the two views, and a conclusion, giving it a recognisable overall structure. Connectors such as “Firstly,” “On the other hand,” and “In conclusion” help signal the stages of the discussion. However, progression within paragraphs is uneven, and some linking is repetitive or confusing. For example, the second body paragraph moves from helpful advice to conflict, then to a dinner-party example without clearly explaining how the example supports the broader argument. Phrases such as “on the other hand” are also repeated where a more precise relationship would help. Use topic sentences that state each paragraph’s main point, and make each example explicitly illustrate that point.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

You use some relevant vocabulary for the topic, including “conflict,” “personal problems,” “different values,” and “suggestion,” and the reader can generally understand the ideas. However, the range is limited and several expressions are inaccurate or unnatural, which sometimes makes the meaning difficult to follow. Examples include “same decision” for shared opinions, “same season,” “stressfulness,” and “this conversation build a conflict.” Repetition of “friends,” “same,” and “different opinion” also limits precision. Choose vocabulary that matches the task’s concepts, such as “similar views,” “disagreement,” and “broaden someone’s perspective,” and check collocations and word forms. More precise phrasing would make the argument clearer and less repetitive.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempt both simple and longer sentences, including clauses with “because,” “if,” and “which,” but complex structures are often not controlled accurately. Errors occur in agreement, articles, plurals, and sentence boundaries: “a more friends,” “2 person … are,” and “which make them a good friends” are examples. Some sentences also run together, as in “that can make them disagree with each other I can conflict between them,” while punctuation and capitalisation are inconsistent. These problems sometimes make the reader pause to interpret your meaning. Practise building accurate sentences around one main idea, then add subordinate clauses carefully; check subject–verb agreement, articles, and punctuation when editing.

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