What do you consider to be the most important room in a house? Why is this room more important to you than any other room? Use specific reasons and relevant examples to support your opinion.
Sample Response
My husband and I live in an apartment withapartment, which includes a bedroom, living room, bathroom and kitchen. We do not have children yet, so our apartment is quitepretty small but it is cheap and cozy. If I had to chooseIf I would have to choose the most important room in a house, I thinkin a house I think it would be the living roomwould be living room. In the following paragraphs, I will explain the reasons for my choicepresent my reasons to support my answer.
First of all, a living room is the place where we receivetake our guests. It is the main and biggest roomthe main and the biggest room in our apartment and we try to keep it clean and cozy. For example, my husband vacuums it every other day, especiallyevery other day especially when it is wet outside and our dog leaves dirty spotsmakes dirty sports on the carpet with its paws after a walk. SecondlySecond of all, I think that the living roomthat living room is the most important room in our house because we spend most of our time there watching TV, eating dinnerhaving our dinner and just talking with each other. Finally, our living room is a place where we study. Since our apartment is rather small we do not have a room for studying, so I have my table with the computer on it in our living room. I like to study there because the room is very brightperfectly light with the large windows and the beautiful view from them.
My parents have a much bigger house with six rooms, a large kitchensix rooms, large kitchen and two floors. However, I think that my mother would agree with me that their living room is the most important room in the house. When we visit them we always gather there, lay the table, and have a long talk. My mother makes delicious cakes and fragrantaromatic tea. I like those moments.
To sum up, I think many people will agree with me that living room is the most important room in a house because it is the room where people spend most of their time at home.
Why this response received Band 7.0
The response presents a clear preference for the living room and supports it with several relevant personal examples, making the central position easy to follow. Its main limitation is that some supporting details are rather simple or only loosely connected to comparative importance, while recurring article, conditional, and collocation errors reduce precision. Prioritise deeper explanation of why each function outweighs those of other rooms while improving grammatical control.
IELTS Writing Criteria Scores
Task Response
A clear position is maintained and supported with several relevant reasons and personal examples, although some points remain fairly simple.
Develop each reason by explicitly explaining why that benefit makes the living room more important than alternative rooms.
Coherence and Cohesion
Ideas progress logically through a clear introduction, body, supporting example, and conclusion, though sequencing language is somewhat formulaic.
Use subtler links between related ideas and organise each main reason into a more fully developed paragraph.
Lexical Resource
The vocabulary is sufficient for the topic and includes some apt descriptive language, but repetition and inaccurate collocations reduce precision.
Replace repeated wording and revise expressions such as guest reception, carpet marks, and room lighting with more natural collocations.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy
A mix of simple and complex structures conveys meaning clearly, but article, conditional, agreement, and punctuation errors recur.
Focus on article use with room names and accurate conditional forms, then proofread sentence boundaries and agreement.
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IELTS Writing Task 2
What do you consider to be the most important room in a house? Why is this room more important to you than any other room? Use specific reasons and relevant examples to support your opinion.
Your response
Write the task yourself, then compare your choices with the annotated response.