Sample response & feedback

Taking Selfies at Famous Places Instead of Looking

Question

More and more people nowadays visit well-known places to take photographs of themselves, without looking at the place. Why do you think this is happening? Is it a positive or a negative trend?

Annotated response

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In this , many people visit historical places and instead of enjoying the place. This essay will explain the reason behind this and of this trend.

First of all, people are keen to express their happiness by of their visit to friends and family, which make them stand to the rich and adventurist society. Moreover, they had already seen those places so view has been stored in their mind, such things keep them away to entertain by watching place but take their own picture. For example, so to visit looking at the place to send my family to feel proud that I am standing in front of .

of this trend, , those places and identity. Secondly, gifts from their ancestors from modern generations. For instance, I had visited red fort and click my own memory. I show that to my parents about history of that fort and I was blank about it, afterwards my father told the whole story and I enjoyed.

In conclusion, visiting well-known places and creating their own memory has reason of stay away from rich society and social media exposure. them away from their history and reducing identity of those places.

Overall assessment

Why this response received Band 5.5

The response tackles both parts of the task, offering reasons for the trend and a clear negative judgement supported by personal examples. Its strongest aspect is relevant, relatable example use that connects ideas to the questions. The main limitation is persistent grammatical and word-choice inaccuracy, together with mechanical organisation, which frequently makes the meaning harder to follow.

IELTS criteria

How each score was decided

TR Task Response

6.0

The response addresses both questions, giving plausible reasons for the photo-taking behaviour and a clear negative evaluation supported by personal examples, though ideas are somewhat underdeveloped and expressed imprecisely at points.

CC Coherence and Cohesion

5.5

There is a visible overall structure, but linking is sometimes mechanical and references are unclear; comma-spliced clauses in the body paragraphs also make relationships between ideas harder to follow.

LR Lexical Resource

5.5

Vocabulary shows attempts at topic-related items such as 'trend', 'identity', and 'exposure', but word choice and form are often inaccurate ('fast forwarding era', 'stand to the rich and adventurist society', 'loose their value', 'click my own memory'), limiting precision.

GRA Grammatical Range and Accuracy

5.5

A mix of simple and complex forms is attempted, but errors are frequent and sometimes impede meaning, including tense misuse ('they had already seen', 'I had click'), subject-verb disagreement, and faulty structures like 'this situation keeping them away'.