The world is consuming natural resources faster than they can be renewed. Therefore, it is important that products are made to last. Governments should discourage people from constantly buying up-to-date or fashionable products. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Sample Response
In today’s world, many opine that exploration and exploitation of natural resources are at their peak for the sake of personal benefit and luxury, and there is a dire need for taking precautionary measures. However, I do agree that we need to limit the use of modern products and discourage companies from continuing to innovateencourage companies not to continue their innovation. By doing so, we will compromise safetycompromise safety issues and prevent people from benefiting fromdeprive people to take benefits of modern technologymodern and advanced technology while also limiting economic progress.
There is no doubt that modern products are designed usingfollowing the latest technology and safety measures. For instance, today’s cars are much better in performance and safer than older carsmore secure than cars from the past decades. The latest cars have the state of the art features such as airbags, crash sensors, cameras and internet connectivity Deleteand so on, and those functions make cars safer, more comfortable, reliable and durable. Now if we are asked to buy cars from the past decade and use the same mobile phones for years, it will not only take away our comfort and safety but also prevent us from taking advantagerestrict us to take advantage of the latest technology.
Moreover, highly durablehighly durable and long-lasting products will create an inequitable market for consumersa discriminatory market condition for people. Products would be unaffordableexpensive and not affordable for people on low and lower-middle incomespoor and lower middle-class people. Furthermore, this will limit product research and innovation in technology and production. This will have a severedrastic negative impact on employment, the economy and overall national development. In this regard, other alternatives like recycling products whenever possible, imposing more tax on luxury items etc. could be more effective and the governments should consider those rather than doing something that would impede our progress.
To conclude, governments should come up with pragmatic approaches to protect the scarce natural resources rather than preventing people from usingconfiding people not to use the latest productslatest and modern products which would have even more drastic impactswhich has even drastic impacts on our liveslife and economic progress.
Why this response received Band 6.5
The response presents a sustained case against discouraging purchases, supported by coherent arguments about safety, affordability, innovation and the economy, and it offers recycling and taxation as alternatives. The main weakness is an internally contradictory thesis and some imprecise phrasing, which make the exact position initially difficult to follow. The priority is to state the disagreement unambiguously and connect each argument more directly to resource conservation and product longevity.
IELTS Writing Criteria Scores
Task Response
Relevant arguments and alternatives are developed, but the opening position is contradictory and the links to resource renewal and product longevity are sometimes indirect.
State a consistent degree of disagreement and explain explicitly how each proposed alternative would reduce resource consumption.
Coherence and Cohesion
The four-paragraph structure supports clear progression, and the central arguments are linked logically from safety to economic consequences and alternatives.
Make the thesis accurately preview the argument so the introduction aligns smoothly with the body paragraphs.
Lexical Resource
There is sufficient range to discuss technology, affordability, innovation, and conservation, though several unnatural collocations weaken precision.
Use more natural combinations for safety, access to technology, consumer restrictions, and economic effects.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy
The response uses varied complex structures, but errors in complements, agreement, articles, and relative clauses recur without generally obscuring meaning.
Review verb patterns and agreement carefully, especially after structures involving deprive, restrict, products, and impacts.
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IELTS Writing Task 2
The world is consuming natural resources faster than they can be renewed. Therefore, it is important that products are made to last. Governments should discourage people from constantly buying up-to-date or fashionable products. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
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