minutes on this task It is said that "Not everything that is learned is contained in books". Compare and contrast knowledge gained from experience with knowledge gained from books. In your opinion, which source is more important? Why?
Sample Response
Books are our best companions and sourcessource of knowledge from infancyfrom our infant time throughout our livestill the end of life. Our learning begins by reading books. Books open new horizons for usopen new horizons in front of us. However, sometimesBut sometimes the hardest and most important lessons we learn in life come from our participation in different situations. The things we learn in real lifein real-life can never be learned through anything else. We can't learn everything from books and in my opinion, the knowledge we gather from our experience is far more important thanimportant, than anything else.
Of course, learning from books in a formal educational institution and learning from books out of personal interestfor someone's own interest are highly important. Books are like open doors. Whenever someone read books, it helps the readers to broaden their power of imagination, to introduce them new ideas. In factfacts, books are a fine collection of ideas, experiences, imaginative works and innovationsimaginations and innovations of writers for the readers. But everyone's life is quite different than others. So, we sometimes face a whole new situation. I believe mostI believe, most important lessons cannot be taught. TheyIt must be faced and learned all by ourselves. The experiences we gather from our daily life help us to improve our future actionsrectify our future act. We learn from watching a situation even if we are not part of itthe part of it. We even learn from the stories we hear from our friends or family members about some strange situations that have occurred.
No one can teach us how to live alone, how to share our feelings, how to develop self-respectcreate self-respects. Those all must be learned from our experiences. Experiencing our own triumphs and disasters is really the only way to learn how to deal with life. Books, teachers, parents give us guidelines and our experiences give the perfection of it.
Why this response received Band 6.0
The response states a clear preference for experiential knowledge and recognizes the value of books, with a generally logical progression and relevant examples from daily life. Its main limitation is that the comparison remains broad and repetitive, while recurring grammar and collocation problems weaken precision; the highest-priority improvement is to build one direct, well-explained comparison between the two sources and then edit for agreement, articles, pronouns, and natural word combinations.
IELTS Writing Criteria Scores
Task Response
The response addresses both sources and gives a consistent preference with reasons, though the contrast is sometimes generalized and unevenly developed.
Use one concrete situation to compare exactly what books provide with what experience adds, then explain why the latter is more important.
Coherence and Cohesion
The central position is easy to follow and ideas progress broadly logically, but paragraph focus is loose and several points repeat the same claim.
Organize separate comparison paragraphs around distinct functions of book knowledge and experiential knowledge before drawing them together in a conclusion.
Lexical Resource
There is adequate vocabulary for the topic and some effective phrasing, but frequent awkward collocations and word-form choices reduce accuracy.
Revise expressions such as infant time, rectify our future act, and create self-respects into standard, context-appropriate English.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy
The writer attempts varied structures and meaning remains clear, but errors in agreement, articles, pronoun reference, and sentence construction recur throughout.
Check every clause for a matching subject and verb, then correct article use and singular-plural consistency before finalizing the essay.
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IELTS Writing Task 2
minutes on this task It is said that "Not everything that is learned is contained in books". Compare and contrast knowledge gained from experience with knowledge gained from books. In your opinion, which source is more important? Why?
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