Causes and Solutions for Rising Weight and Declining Fitness

In some countries the average weight of people is increasing and their levels of health and fitness are decreasing. What do you think are the causes of these problems and what measures could be taken to solve them?

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Essay ideas: Causes and Solutions for Rising Weight and Declining Fitness

WhyThis is aProblem and solution essay — it asks for causes or problems, and for ways to solve them.

SoWe split the ideas intoCauses & problems(what causes it or goes wrong)andSolutions(how to fix it).

Causes & problems

3 ideas

Solutions

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Essay · 347 words · 4 paragraphs · 17 comments

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Response 01
Estimated band6.0/ 9

Overall assessment

The response clearly addresses both parts of the task, identifying hectic work schedules and genetics as causes and proposing workplace exercise time and balanced diets as solutions, with generally logical paragraph progression. The main limitation is imprecise and sometimes misused vocabulary and idioms, along with recurring grammatical errors that occasionally strain clarity, particularly in the conclusion.

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Task Response

The essay addresses both causes and solutions with a relevant position and some developed support, but ideas such as the genetics point remain unevenly developed and the conclusion is partially obscured by error.

6.0
CC

Coherence and Cohesion

Paragraphing is logical and cohesive devices are used throughout, though some links like 'Consequently' and 'Alternatively' are mechanically or inaccurately applied.

6.0
LR

Lexical Resource

There is adequate range with some apt collocations such as 'sedentary lifestyle', but idiom misuse ('get a victim', 'icing on the cake', 'is used ostensibly') and wordiness reduce precision.

6.0
GRA

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

A mix of simple and complex structures is attempted, but frequent errors in articles, agreement ('making a persons fat'), and clause construction repeatedly affect accuracy without fully blocking meaning.

6.0

What to work on next

Replace memorised idiomatic expressions and faulty phrases with precise, naturally used vocabulary, and proofread for subject-verb agreement, articles, and sentence boundaries, especially in the conclusion.

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