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
Colour has always played an important role in human historythe human history and according to some recent research, it affects our consciousness and mood. I personally believe that appropriate colours convey goodwilla proper colour represents a good will and shows tenderness and this is why public buildings should have appropriate colours and decorproper colour and decoration. To begin with, we are exposed to different coloursassociated with different colours from the very beginning of our liveslife. Parents and teachers teach us different colours and scientists believe that a child’s ability to classify different colours is connected with his calibre and talent. Thus our brains associate thesethis colours with our moods and feelings. For instance, red traffic lightsthe red light on the streets sends an immediate alert to our brain to stop our vehicle while the green colour signals us to go ahead. Thus we are trained to react and feel differently in response to colourswith the association of colours. From this perspective, it is important to use soothing and widely accepted coloursaccepted colours in places like schools, hospitals and offices. Furthermore, we tend to associate colours with different events from our personal experience. For this reasonreasons, some people associate red with blood and white with peacerelate red with blood while white with peace. Universally blue is the colour of nature and fewer people would complain about it. Besides, people in some countries relate colours with certain moods. For example, more than one quarter of Americansone quarter Americans believe that bluethat the blue has something to do with comfort and cosiness while red represents violence. Due to the influence of colours in human psychology, all renowned food and beverage retailers have their own colour schemes. According to an article published on the Huffington Post, a combination of slate blue, olive green and soft creama combination of slate blue mixes with olive green and soft cream has helped to foster a team environment in many organisations. The article also statesThis also states that it has increased team spiritthe team spirit and productivity of employees. To conclude, people’s wellbeing often depends on psychological well-beingdepends on psychological condition and since colour has an acute influence on our mood, proper colour schemes should be used in our homes, offices, schools and public places.
Why this response received Band 6.5
The response maintains a clear view and offers a coherent range of examples showing how colours can influence mood and workplace productivity. Its main limitation is incomplete task development: health effects receive little direct analysis, and some supporting material about recognising colours and traffic signals is only loosely relevant. The highest priority is to structure separate, focused explanations of health and work capacity, supported by precise causal reasoning rather than general associations.
IELTS Writing Criteria Scores
Task Response
A consistent position is supported with relevant psychological and productivity examples, but the health dimension is only indirectly addressed and some material is tangential.
Give distinct, developed explanations of how colour affects health and how it affects work capacity.
Coherence and Cohesion
The argument follows a generally logical sequence with clear linking, though the single-block structure and repeated connectors weaken organisation.
Divide the response into purposeful paragraphs and use referencing and transitions more selectively to show relationships between ideas.
Lexical Resource
Vocabulary is varied and often topic-appropriate, but several imprecise collocations and article-related phrasing choices reduce naturalness.
Choose more exact combinations such as calming colours, associate red with blood, and a strong influence on mood.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy
The response demonstrates varied sentence forms, while recurring errors with articles, agreement, demonstratives, and prepositions remain noticeable but rarely impede meaning.
Edit noun phrases and agreement carefully, particularly forms such as these colours, these reasons, and a quarter of Americans.
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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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