Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Parents are the best teachers. You should

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Sample Response

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Nowadays, we are living in modern life and much more facilities in different fields which make the life easier for the people, on the other hand, the life is full of challenges and situations facing us, especially dealing with the society, different people, different cultures and ages. Apparently, when we have started life trip we came with zero experience and the lucky one of us who came to the life with guides people who arrived before him and people dedicate their times, power and feelings to help, those are good parents. Parents are teachers, they always teaching us in many ways intentionally and unintentionally, however, vocal guidelines and acting in daily bases activities are the ways of the life experience knowledge transfer regardless different culture, language, facilities or economy level of the family. But in my opinion, in modern life, the educationaleducation level of the parents is a major factor inis a major factor and considered in the quality of the transfer of knowledge and experiencethe knowledge and experience transfer to the children. There are many teachers around the world whowhich can teach you a lot about lifeteach you lot of life experience but parents are always specialbut parents always special and the natureflavour of the knowledge you gain is unique and meaningfulneat because it always comes with the feelings that cannot be received from other teachersfeelings which are impossible to get from other teachers. Regardless of whether the knowledge isRegardless the knowledge is good or bad, right or wrong, parentsright or wrong parents are the best teachersare best teachers. Finally, we will discover and make decisions about our livesyou will discover and decide about our life when we reach an age of maturitythe rational age. WhenAnd when we become parents to the next generationparents for the newcomers, we canwould make the best decisionsdecision for them.

Overall assessment

Why this response received Band 5.5

The response expresses a consistent belief that parents are uniquely influential teachers and offers relevant points about experience, guidance, and emotional support. However, the argument remains loosely developed, and frequent grammatical and collocational errors combine with very long sentences to strain clarity. The highest-priority improvement is to organise two distinct reasons into separate paragraphs, support each with a concrete example, and write shorter, accurately controlled sentences.

Band score breakdown

IELTS Writing Criteria Scores

TR

Task Response

6.0
Scoring rule

The position is clear and relevant reasons are introduced, but their explanation is limited, sometimes contradictory, and unsupported by concrete examples.

Next step

Build two distinct reasons for parents' superiority as teachers and demonstrate each one with a specific childhood or family example.

CC

Coherence and Cohesion

5.0
Scoring rule

The central viewpoint can be followed, but one unbroken paragraph, run-on sentences, and loosely connected shifts produce weak progression.

Next step

Use an introduction, two focused body paragraphs, and a conclusion, with each paragraph organised around one clearly stated main idea.

LR

Lexical Resource

5.0
Scoring rule

There is enough vocabulary to discuss guidance and experience, but frequent unnatural phrases such as life trip, guides people, and daily bases activities reduce clarity.

Next step

Choose simpler, accurate collocations such as journey through life, experienced guides, and daily activities, and check word forms carefully.

GRA

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

5.0
Scoring rule

Frequent errors in articles, agreement, auxiliaries, pronouns, and sentence boundaries occur across the response and sometimes make relationships between ideas difficult to follow.

Next step

Prioritise complete sentences with one main clause, then check subject-verb agreement and article use before attempting longer complex structures.

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