We never know when the natural disaster will shatter an area and that is why the government should take every precaution to protect its citizens from natural disaster. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?
Sample Response
People have established governmentsestablished a government to lead, guide, and care for the whole country. A government always knows its sworn responsibilitiesresponsibility and one of themit is to ensure the well-beingassure the wellness and safety of its citizenssecurity of the citizenship from disasters, whether man-made or naturalman-made or naturally caused. I agree that the government is responsible forresponsible and accounted for protectingkeeping its citizens from natural disasters, keeping them informed and providingto keep them informed and provide safety and rescue measures once a disaster has occurredonce a disaster had already occurred. It is necessary for each individuala certain individual to know what he should do in case of emergencies and so relevant information would play a vital roleserve as a vital role to save oneself from a disaster. The government should disseminatedisperse information to prepare the entire communityfor the preparation of the entire community before a catastrophe occursbefore catastrophe could happen. An example would be safety tips during and after an earthquake. When we were studentsAs a student before, we were involved in an earthquake drillexposed into an earthquake drill so we were somehow taught what to do during an earthquake. So when a real earthquake occurred, we just stayed calm and did what we hadhave practised. Moreover, a government is also responsible for rescuing injured peoplereliable to save the people injured so rescue facilities should be sent to places which have been affected. Trained professionals and volunteers, rescue vehiclesmobiles, and other related rescue units are the appropriate ones to be dispatched. Like floods, which usually occur in most regions of our country, rescuers used to save the victims through rescue boats and retrieve them from their affected homes. Overall, the government should keep its responsibility for the safety of its people from naturally caused disasters through the use of relevant information, and necessary facilities.
Why this response received Band 6.0
The essay takes a clear position and develops two relevant responsibilities—public preparedness information and emergency rescue—with concrete earthquake and flood examples. Its main limitation is the breadth of the argument: rescue after an event is not itself a precaution, and the claim that government should take every precaution needs fuller discussion of preventive planning, resilient infrastructure, warning systems, or realistic limits. Prioritise developing that distinction explicitly.
IELTS Writing Criteria Scores
Task Response
A clear agreement position is supported with relevant education and rescue examples, but preventive precautions and the extent of responsibility are only partly developed.
Distinguish prevention, preparedness, and response, then explain why ‘every precaution’ is justified or should have practical limits.
Coherence and Cohesion
The argument moves recognisably from public information to earthquake preparation and rescue response, but one long paragraph limits structural clarity.
Use separate body paragraphs for preparedness and emergency response, each with a clear topic sentence and concluding link to the position.
Lexical Resource
Vocabulary is sufficient for disasters and government action, but frequent inaccurate collocations such as ‘wellness of the citizenship’ and ‘rescue mobiles’ reduce precision.
Use ‘public safety’, ‘disseminate information’, ‘emergency preparedness’, ‘rescue teams’, ‘vehicles’, and ‘disaster response’.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy
Meaning remains generally understandable, but frequent errors affect agreement, articles, pronouns, prepositions, tense, and clause construction.
Simplify long sentences and ensure each government responsibility is expressed with a clear subject, controlled tense, and correct verb pattern.
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IELTS Writing Task 2
We never know when the natural disaster will shatter an area and that is why the government should take every precaution to protect its citizens from natural disaster. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?
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