Too much emphasis is placed on testing these days. The need to prepare for tests and examinations is a restriction on teachers and also exerts unnecessary pressure on young learners. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Sample Response
EducationThe education is the key of future; it is the only way to encourage people to improve their life and environment. Actually, in nowadays testing people, specially students is the common way to evaluate learning process and teachers tend to pay a lot of attention on students score as it was the only measure to check the knowledge. It is creating a high level of pressuredeveloping high level of pressure on young learners.
SchoolsThe school has a lot of objectives, but the mainmean one is to prepare people for lifefor the life. In fact, life is sometimessometime very stressful and hard, and it is necessary to have the ability to cope with difficultiescontrol difficulties and succeedhaving success in hard time as well. Then it is possible that the high pressure exerts on children and students about testing is a way to help them to be strong and to learn face future stressful situation.
On the other hand, to force students to learn some specific things within a fixed timein specific time could discourage creativitydiscourage the creative and turn students into consumers of knowledgebecome students in knowledge’s consumers instead of encouraging them to develop skillsconversely to look for develop skills or discover personal abilities. In my opinion, pressing students having good score, you are achieving that them memorize a lot of information, but no necessary to learn or understanding it.
Furthermore, experts have found around the world that open learning processesprocess make more intelligent and creative students, because relaxed and comfortable students can learnbecause to be relaxed and feeling comfortable is easy to learn and discover new things; so this teaching approachthis way to teach is better to develop skills and overcomeimprove difficulties.
In the final analysis, in my view, even to learn to control stress and pressure is important and necessary, if the goal is to develop skills and encourage intelligenceif the goal is developing skills and encourage the intelligence, it is necessary to reduce pressure from testingdecrease of pressure about testing and promote creative process.
Why this response received Band 5.5
The response communicates a clear preference for reducing testing pressure and offers relevant ideas about stress, memorisation, creativity, and resilience. The argument gives little attention to restrictions on teachers, while frequent grammatical and lexical errors make several sentences difficult to follow; the highest-priority improvement is to address every part of the proposition directly and express each supporting point in shorter, accurately constructed sentences.
IELTS Writing Criteria Scores
Task Response
A discernible position is supported with relevant arguments on learners, but the restriction placed on teachers is largely omitted and development remains general.
Address the effect of test preparation on teachers explicitly and support both the concession and main position with concrete examples.
Coherence and Cohesion
The response uses clear paragraph divisions and follows a broadly logical contrast, although progression within sentences is sometimes strained or unclear.
Give each body paragraph one focused claim and build it through a clear explanation-and-example sequence with simpler linking.
Lexical Resource
The writer attempts topic-relevant vocabulary about education, pressure, creativity, and skills, but frequent word-choice and word-form errors impair precision.
Learn accurate collocations such as 'main objective', 'take tests', and 'develop skills', and avoid translating phrases word for word.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy
Some complex structures are attempted, but frequent errors in articles, agreement, infinitives, gerunds, and clause formation cause noticeable difficulty for the reader.
Use shorter sentence patterns first, checking every clause for a clear subject and finite verb before adding subordinate ideas.
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IELTS Writing Task 2
Too much emphasis is placed on testing these days. The need to prepare for tests and examinations is a restriction on teachers and also exerts unnecessary pressure on young learners. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
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