Psychologists have known for many years that colour can affect how people feel. For this reason, attention should be given to colour schemes when decorating places such as offices and hospitals. How true this statement? How far colours influence people's health and capacity for work?
Sample Response
Since the beginning of civilisationSince the beginning of the civilisation, colour has been a significant partcolour is a big part of human life. Various studies and experimentsDifferent research and experiments have been done to find the effect of colours on people’s mood and psychology and the findings show that people’s feelingsfeelings of people can be influenced by colour. Hence, public buildings are suggested to use appropriate colour for decoration to motivate people to feel better. I agree that colour can affect our psychology and that is why offices and other public buildings should have appropriate colour and decorations. Firstly, a public health service should be located at a nice place, have a comfortable environment and appropriate decoration so that people feel better being there. This is important for patientsIt is important for the patients who stay there for quite a while or visit for treatmentvisit there for treatments. The top priority should be better treatment facilitiesthe better treatment facility and skilled doctors and then the colour scheme and decoration should be set so thatin a way so that people feel better being there. Green and white could be two suitable colours for a hospital. The colour of the buildingColour of the building and decoration matter and that’s why the restaurants and food brandsfood selling brands have invested a lot of money to find the right colour to inspire people to eat and drink. Almost every renowned restaurant has its own branding and colour to attract people. The right colour scheme can keep people calmProper colour can keep people calm and help them feel better and that’s why it is especially important for hospitalsfor the hospitals and other health care centres to have the right colour and decoration. From my experience, I can say that I can wait longerI can wait more time in a room with soothing colour and decoration than in a messy room with very bright colour. A particular colour can stimulate the braintrigger our brain and arouse our feelings unconsciously. Similarly colour and interior decoration used in an office building can affect the mood and psychology of employees. Natural and eye-soothing colours are better for our physical and mental health and are directly relatedand directly related to our stress levelslevel. Hence using the most appropriate colour in offices is also important. From my personal experience, I can say that I find light green, aqua and white colour very eye-soothing and I prefer to stay in a room decorated using these colours. Probably a very bright red colour would give me a headache as it is often related to anger, frustration and fire. Thus I believe that colours are directly and indirectly related to people’s work performance, mental state and health. To conclude, I maintainI stand to claim that colour has a big effect on human psychology in many ways. Thus, colour or decoration of a room should never be selected randomly. Rather a good amount of time should be spent selecting colours for any buildinginvested to colour any building.
Why this response received Band 6.5
The response presents a consistent view and supplies relevant examples from hospitals, restaurants, offices, and personal experience, showing a solid understanding of how colour may affect feelings. However, it is repetitive, lacks paragraph divisions, and develops the link to work capacity less fully than the general psychological effects. Prioritise a clearer paragraph structure and a focused explanation of how particular colour choices influence employee concentration, stress, and productivity.
IELTS Writing Criteria Scores
Task Response
The response answers both questions with a clear position and relevant examples, but discussion of work capacity is comparatively brief and general.
Explain a specific causal link between colour, employee concentration or stress, and measurable work performance.
Coherence and Cohesion
The argument has an understandable overall progression, but one unbroken paragraph and repeated points about feeling better weaken organisation.
Group the discussion into separate paragraphs for health settings and workplaces, with one distinct controlling idea in each.
Lexical Resource
There is adequate range for discussing psychology and environments, though repetition and several awkward collocations limit precision.
Vary repeated references to colour and decoration and replace unnatural phrases with precise terms such as calming tones, visual comfort, and workplace productivity.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy
A mix of sentence forms communicates meaning clearly, but recurring article, plurality, agreement, and clause-control errors are noticeable.
Check noun phrases and agreement systematically, especially singular colour versus plural colours and missing articles before countable nouns.
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IELTS Writing Task 2
Psychologists have known for many years that colour can affect how people feel. For this reason, attention should be given to colour schemes when decorating places such as offices and hospitals. How true this statement? How far colours influence people's health and capacity for work?
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