Having Children Later in Life

Nowadays, more and more people decide to have children later in their life. What do you think are the reasons for this? Do the advantages of this trend outweigh the disadvantages?

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Response 01

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Response 01
Estimated band6.0/ 9

Overall assessment

The response addresses both questions with relevant reasons for late childbirth and a recognizable weighing of benefits and drawbacks. Its main limitation is imprecise wording and occasionally unclear phrasing, together with a conclusion that stops short of stating whether advantages clearly outweigh disadvantages.

TR

Task Response

The response covers relevant reasons, advantages, and disadvantages, but the position remains underdeveloped because the conclusion does not clearly state whether benefits outweigh drawbacks.

6.0
CC

Coherence and Cohesion

Ideas are arranged in a mostly logical progression with basic linking devices, though some connections, such as the opening of the second paragraph, are strained or mechanical.

6.0
LR

Lexical Resource

There is an adequate range of vocabulary on marriage and childbearing, but frequent awkward or inaccurate collocations, such as 'later in age' and 'soon becoming adolescent parents', reduce precision.

6.0
GRA

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

A mix of simple and complex sentence forms is used with reasonable flexibility, yet recurring grammatical errors, including tense and article problems, slightly impede clarity at times.

6.0

What to work on next

State an explicit position on whether the advantages outweigh the disadvantages in the thesis and conclusion, and replace awkward or inaccurate word choices with precise, natural collocations.

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