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Banning Dangerous Extreme Sports

Extreme sports such as sky diving and skiing are very dangerous and should be banned.

To what extent do you agree or disagree with this view?

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Essay ideas: Banning Dangerous Extreme Sports

WhyThis is anOpinion essay — it asks whether you agree or disagree with a statement.

SoWe split the ideas intoReasons to disagree(argues against it).

Reasons to disagree

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Response 01

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Essay · 303 words · 4 paragraphs · 15 comments

Score details

Response 01
Estimated band7.0/ 9

Overall assessment

The response presents a clear, consistent disagreement with the ban and develops two relevant reasons with explanation and a practical recommendation. Its strongest aspect is the controlled, complex sentence structure; the main limitation is occasional unnatural word choice and slightly stretched reasoning, such as the dopamine claim.

TR

Task Response

The position is clear and sustained throughout, main ideas are relevant and developed with explanation, and the conclusion adds a balanced safety recommendation, though one supporting idea relies on a somewhat questionable claim.

7.0
CC

Coherence and Cohesion

Paragraphing is logical with clear progression, and cohesive devices such as 'compared with' and 'thus' are used flexibly, with only occasional slightly mechanical referencing.

7.0
LR

Lexical Resource

There is a good range of topic-related vocabulary, including 'prohibited', 'recreational activity' and 'precautionary measures'. Precision is less consistent: 'reliver' is misspelled, 'stressful' misdescribes people experiencing stress, and 'feasibility' is misused for coping capacity.

7.0
GRA

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

A variety of complex structures, including relative clauses and participial phrases, are used with flexibility and generally good control, with errors that are minor and rarely impede meaning.

7.0

What to work on next

Refine vocabulary precision and collocation, replacing awkward phrases like 'an effective stress reliver' and 'beyond the level of their feasibility' with more natural expressions.

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