Why do you think teachers give homework to students? How important is it for students to have homework? Are there any other ways of revising school lessons? Perhaps homework should be abolished. Give your opinion about this.
Sample Response
In today's completive world, students are constantly under pressure to perform well in studies and homework has become a part of today's study culture. Teachers make students do homework in order to reduce their load in school and parents are supportive of this practice because it keeps their children busy leaving little time for anything other than studies.
Doing homework is important to a certain extent as it lets the students be in touch with the syllabus even after school hours and makes it easier for them to grasp lessons better the next day at school. Another benefit is that the parents can keep themselves up-to-date with their child's progress in school. For them, the more time their child spends on studies the better. Everyone wants their children to excel in studies to be prepared for the cut-throat competition that is on offer.
What adults do not realise is that playtime is as important to children as is study time. It is important for children's psychological wellbeing to have variation in activities as opposed to being in front of the books all the time. Schools can add a revision period at the end of school hours so that the pupils finish revising the day's lessons and go home without having to worry about homework. In some countries, students are never given homework and are not event required to carry books back and forth between home and school.
In my opinion, homework should be abolished in our country thus reducing a burden on students. This will also put an end to the overloaded bags that our children have to carry which is posing a risk to their physical health. Students should be given enough time for extra-curricular activities also.
IELTS Writing Correction
- 1. Correct word form Original: completive Suggested revision: competitive Why it matters: The intended adjective is 'competitive'; 'completive' has a different meaning.
- 2. Clarify the workload Original: reduce their load in school Suggested revision: reduce the amount of work students do at school Why it matters: The original phrase is ambiguous about whose workload is reduced.
- 3. Separate the result Original: busy leaving Suggested revision: busy, leaving Why it matters: A comma separates the result clause introduced by 'leaving'.
- 4. Use natural phrasing Original: lets the students be in touch Suggested revision: helps students stay engaged Why it matters: This wording expresses continued involvement with the syllabus more naturally.
- 5. Remove reflexive pronoun Original: the parents can keep themselves up-to-date Suggested revision: parents can keep up to date Why it matters: The reflexive pronoun is unnecessary in this construction.
- 6. Complete paired structure Original: studies the better Suggested revision: studies, the better Why it matters: The correlative structure 'the more..., the better' requires a comma between its two parts.
- 7. Improve the collocation Original: competition that is on offer Suggested revision: competition they face Why it matters: People face competition; it is not naturally described as being on offer here.
- 8. Use natural noun phrase Original: to have variation in activities Suggested revision: to have a variety of activities Why it matters: A 'variety of activities' is the natural expression for several different activities.
- 9. State the activity clearly Original: being in front of the books Suggested revision: studying Why it matters: The original expression is not an idiomatic way to describe doing schoolwork.
- 10. Correct the typo Original: event Suggested revision: even Why it matters: 'Event' is a typographical error for the adverb 'even'.
- 11. Use the correct article Original: thus reducing a burden Suggested revision: thereby reducing the burden Why it matters: 'The burden' refers to the specific burden of homework already under discussion.
- 12. Fix agreement and punctuation Original: carry which is posing Suggested revision: carry, which pose Why it matters: The relative clause refers to the plural noun 'bags' and should be set off with a comma.
Suggested Rewrites
- completive competitive
- reduce their load in school reduce the amount of work students do at school
- busy leaving busy, leaving
- lets the students be in touch helps students stay engaged
- the parents can keep themselves up-to-date parents can keep up to date
- studies the better studies, the better
Why this response received Band 7.0
The essay addresses every part of the task, explaining why homework is assigned, acknowledging its limited value, proposing supervised school revision, and maintaining a clear view that it should be abolished. Its progression and paragraphing are strong, though some claims about teachers' motives are insufficiently supported and a few language errors reduce polish. Prioritise a more balanced explanation of educational purposes and support the preferred alternative with specific practical detail.
IELTS Writing Criteria Scores
Task Response
All questions are answered with a clear opinion and relevant development, though the claim that homework mainly reduces teachers' workload is weakly justified.
Explain legitimate purposes such as practice and assessment, then show why supervised revision and extracurricular time would produce better outcomes.
Coherence and Cohesion
Focused paragraphs and a clear progression from benefits to drawbacks, alternatives, and opinion make the response easy to follow.
Strengthen the transition into the final judgement by explicitly weighing the earlier limited benefits against the identified harms.
Lexical Resource
A good range of education and wellbeing vocabulary conveys the argument effectively, with a few inaccurate or informal choices.
Correct competitive and even, and use natural phrases such as engaged with the syllabus, absorb lessons, and excessive academic competition.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy
Varied complex structures are generally accurate and clear, despite occasional article, punctuation, and comparison-pattern errors.
Refine comparative structures such as playtime is as important as study time and proofread long sentences for punctuation.
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IELTS Writing Task 2
Why do you think teachers give homework to students? How important is it for students to have homework? Are there any other ways of revising school lessons? Perhaps homework should be abolished. Give your opinion about this.
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