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 competitivecompletive world, students are constantly under pressure to perform well academicallyperform well in studies and homework has become a part of modern educationpart of today's study culture. Teachers make students do homework in order to reduce the amount of work students do at schoolreduce their load in school and parents are supportive of this practice because it keeps their children busy, leavingbusy leaving little time for anything other than studies.
Doing homework is important to a certain extent as it helps students stay engagedlets the students be in touch with the syllabus even after school hours and makes it easier for them to understand lessons more easilygrasp lessons better the next day at school. Another benefit is that parents can keep up to datethe 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 betterstudies the better. Everyone wants their children to excel in studies to be prepared for the cut-throat competition they facecompetition 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 a variety of activitiesto have variation in activities as opposed to studyingbeing in front of the books all the time. Schools can add a revision period at the end of school hours so that pupils can finish revisingso 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 evenevent required to carry books back and forth between home and school.
In my opinion, homework should be abolished in our country thereby reducing the burdenthus reducing a burden on students. This will also put an end to the overloaded bags that our children have to carry, which posecarry which is posing a risk to their physical health. Students should be given enough time for extracurricular activities as wellextra-curricular activities also.
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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