Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Parents are the best teachers. You should
Sample Response
Parents teach children a great dealteach a lot to the children and the foundations they laythe ground made by them shapes the future of the children. On the other hand, someone learns throughout his life and thus becomesbecome the person he really is. In this learning process, he himself contributes the most and teachers, friends, nature, books, and academic education arebooks, academic education are important as well. Though parents are very good teachers, in my opinion, they are not the best teachers for a personthe best teacher for someone and the person himself is the best teacher for him. After we learn to talk, walk and basic morality and intricacies of our life, we start going to school and there we learn new things every day. The book, the teachers, the friends and the environment shapes what we become. Parents help their child becometeach their kid to a capable, decent persona bright, good fellow and yet there are lots of immoral and corruptcorrupted people who actually were changed for the worse through their own actionstransformed badly by themselves. So someone himself is the best teacher for him. MoreoverBesides this the things we learn from our life experiences, teachers and books become far more important thanthat what we learned during infancyin our infant time. Parents fulfil their responsibilitydo their fine duty to raise a child to become a good adult and later he gains education and life experiencegets the education and experiences from his life and school playsplay the vital role for his future. In terms of being our teachers, our experience and nature play a role of utmost importancean utmost important role. We learn so many things from our surroundings and nature is a silent teacher who reveals the mystery and significancewidely opens the mystery and significance of our life. The things we learn from our parents are of course important to our life but they are rather some righteous lessons and good adviceadvises. Later in our life, we face the real situations and learn the true lessons from our experience and in terms of learning this is the most important part. So considering all of the above, I would like to opine that, parents are very important teachers for us but never the best teachers.
Why this response received Band 6.0
The response maintains a clear disagreement and explores several alternative sources of learning, so its central message remains easy to follow. Its main limitation is that the supporting ideas are repetitive and often asserted in vague terms, while frequent grammatical and collocational errors reduce precision. The highest-priority improvement is to organise distinct reasons into separate paragraphs and develop each with a specific, clearly expressed example.
IELTS Writing Criteria Scores
Task Response
A consistent position addresses the question, but the reasons are repetitive and only partly developed.
Develop two distinct reasons with concrete examples that directly show why other sources of learning surpass parents.
Coherence and Cohesion
There is identifiable progression from early parental teaching to later learning, although the single-paragraph structure and repeated points weaken organisation.
Separate the argument into focused body paragraphs and give each paragraph one clear controlling idea.
Lexical Resource
Vocabulary has enough range for the topic, but frequent awkward collocations and word-form choices reduce precision.
Replace unnatural phrases with accurate common collocations and check noun forms such as advice before finalising the response.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy
The response uses both simple and complex structures, but recurring agreement, article, pronoun, and sentence-control errors are noticeable.
Prioritise subject-verb agreement and sentence-boundary checks, especially in longer sentences containing several clauses.
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IELTS Writing Task 2
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Parents are the best teachers. You should
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