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Banning Dangerous Sports or Freedom of Choice

Some people believe that the government should ban dangerous sporting activities while others think that people have the freedom do whatever sports they choose.

Discuss both views and give your own opinion.

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Essay ideas: Banning Dangerous Sports or Freedom of Choice

WhyThis is aDiscussion essay — it asks you to discuss two opposing views and give your own.

SoWe split the ideas intoFirst view(supports the first view)andSecond view(supports the second view).

First view

8 ideas

Second view

12 ideas

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Response 01

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Essay · 425 words · 6 paragraphs · 25 comments

Score details

Response 01
Estimated band6.0/ 9

Overall assessment

The response addresses all parts of the task with a clear final position and reasonably developed arguments, which is its strongest aspect. The main limitation is frequent awkward or inaccurate phrasing and some underdeveloped, unconvincing supporting examples that reduce precision and impact.

TR

Task Response

The response addresses both views and states a clear opinion with some development, but the ideas are unevenly extended and the examples are weakly integrated and only partially relevant.

6.0
CC

Coherence and Cohesion

Paragraphing is logical and progression is broadly clear, though cohesion is sometimes mechanical and transitions such as 'It is due to this reason' and 'However' are used stiffly.

6.0
LR

Lexical Resource

There is adequate vocabulary range with some less common items like 'accorded' and 'untoward incident', but recurring awkward collocations such as 'characteristic of an individual' and 'not reasonably positively skewed' limit precision.

6.0
GRA

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

A mix of simple and complex structures is attempted, but frequent errors in articles, agreement ('the survivors... who has'), and sentence construction reduce accuracy without fully blocking meaning.

6.0

What to work on next

Revise sentence-level accuracy and collocation, and replace or better substantiate examples with credible, clearly explained support.

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